Example sentences of "taken over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On July 17 Fareed had announced the formal entry into government of the Hezb-i-Wahdat , and on July 25 he confirmed that the government intended to retain the Shia Gen. Khodad Hazareh who had taken over as Interior Minister under former interim President Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi on June 26 . |
| 2 | David Lloyd , a director of the family business for seven years , has taken over as managing director of the Shropshire-based Lloyd 's Animal Feeds group . |
| 3 | Viscount Palmerston had taken over as Prime Minister by then only to lose that position to Lord Derby again but only for a year , as the Liberals were able to take control of Parliament in 1859 , with Viscount Palmerston remaining as Prime Minister until 1865 , during which period many changes took place . |
| 4 | All the large houses have been pulled down , or taken over as nursing homes . |
| 5 | At 81 , he has taken over as artistic director at Rome Opera , where the exuberant administrative director , Gian Paulo Cresci , has run up a deficit of close to £25 million . |
| 6 | It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer . |
| 7 | Instead Helen Mules , who has been in the department for eleven years , has taken over as Associate Curator Acting in Charge . |
| 8 | This mode of relating , which starts between the mother and the infant , is taken over into subsequent situations such as enterprises , I suggest . |
| 9 | Time and again we have seen large country houses taken over for institutional use , whether as corporate headquarters or hospitals . |
| 10 | Instead , they were taken over for institutional use , sometimes in a public-spirited move to give them a new lease of life , sometimes for exploitation as large areas of relatively cheap floor space . |
| 11 | All that is happening is that the story is taken over at various points by each of the members of the cast . |
| 12 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 13 | After the Reformation it was not unusual for these charnels to be cleared and taken over by prominent local families as their burial vault , as happened at Saffron Walden and Thaxted , both in Essex . |
| 14 | It is a gut reaction to the sense of having been taken over by affluent and alien strangers . |
| 15 | Basketball was all but taken over by black players ; grid-iron football became a platform for such star performers as Jim Brown and O. J. Simpson and baseball , to a lesser extent , absorbed many black players of distinction , including Hank Aaron and Willie Mays , the number one and number three leading home-run hitters , after Jackie Robinson broke the colour bar in 1947 . |
| 16 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 17 | So only the police , army and ‘ bureaucracy ’ would be dismantled by the representatives of the proletariat , leaving the registration and accounting work of banks , factories , academies , syndicates , experimental stations , and other institutions to be taken over by proletarian soviets . |
| 18 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |
| 19 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 20 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 21 | Naxos and Karpathos are thought to have had Minoan colonies too , and a very strong Minoan influence is seen at Agia Eirene on Kea : perhaps it was an existing town that was taken over by Minoan traders and administrators . |
| 22 | Burial in a churchyard was becoming a thing of the past in central London from the 1840s onwards ; space was too precious , and the task of burying the dead was taken over by non-denominational cemeteries run largely on a commercial basis . |
| 23 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 24 | There are signs of cracks in the bonding however as bigger and better shops are being taken over by Pakistani families . |
| 25 | But such cooperation was rare and quickly taken over by sectarian issues . |
| 26 | Dowty taken over by TI Group |
| 27 | While this gets them both young and older females there is a price to pay , since big harems are the least stable and most easily taken over by other males . |
| 28 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 29 | Why a structure that had originally been a smell-brain should prove so useful when taken over by other senses is not clear . |
| 30 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |