Example sentences of "taken over by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Gray , junior , the older son , had a nursery garden in Fulham , at Parson 's Lane , later Peterborough Road , but the better known Fulham garden of the period was the one established before 1700 by the elder William Gray and later taken over by Christopher . |
| 2 | To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders . |
| 3 | Well erm , the firm of er , was taken over by Geoffrey and myself were the two main board directors mostly in favour of the takeover . |
| 4 | The shop , of 998 sq ft on two floors , has been taken over by Fols Ladiesware , who paid a premium close to the asking figure of £7,500 , with the rental being £11,000 per annum . |
| 5 | We moved to Streatham Hill in June 1951 , to an estate owned by the same company , later to be taken over by Lambeth Council . |
| 6 | Sidney Samuelson , the chairman of lighting hire group Samuelson which was taken over by Eagle in 1987 , is also resigning though he will retain his position at Samuelson . |
| 7 | Indeed , Althusser claims to identify the origins of such an attitude in the law ; he suggests that the ideological notion of the legal subject as the owner of property was taken over by Kant and Descartes and transformed into the philosophical categories of subject and object . |
| 8 | The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford . |
| 9 | Imagine that when you come home from a holiday , your house has been taken over by squatters . |
| 10 | Because of the present confusion in East Berlin , the owners of the buildings are unknown and many of them have been taken over by squatters from all over the world who make paintings , installations and sculpture frequently from old junk and scrap metal , create theatre and festivals , run parties and discos , bars etc . |
| 11 | THE whole back page of the Dominions newspaper in Wellington on the morning of the Second Test between Ireland and the All Blacks was taken over by Steinlager , the ‘ official sponsors of the All Blacks ’ . |
| 12 | Their premises at Church Wharf were taken over by Gwynne 's , an engineering firm , then making pumps , also the ‘ Albert ’ car . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've lost many of our localised products because they 've been taken over by multi-nationals . |
| 14 | Tip 's first job on leaving school was as an apprentice at the old Tom Stewart clubmaking works at St Andrews , soon to be taken over by Spalding . |
| 15 | The company was taken over by Daimler in the late Twenties . |
| 16 | In 1915 the farm was taken over by Fauchons who ran it as a dairy farm . |
| 17 | On the school 's noticeboard , religious notices have been taken over by election literature and copies of the government 's exhortations to take part in today 's vote for parliament as a ‘ religious and political duty ’ . |
| 18 | Clients will never love the UK OTC market , or at best will only love an isolated stock or two , like Hard Rock Cafe , which achieved a proper stock market listing in the UK and in the United States , and which was taken over by Pleasurama in July 1988 . |
| 19 | Assam 's Governor , D. D. Thakur , resigned on March 15 , having been criticised by Rajiv Gandhi on March 13 for failing to tackle the insurgency threat ; he was replaced by Loknath Mishra , while his responsibilities in Arunachal Pradesh were taken over by Surendra Nath Dwiwedi , appointed as Governor on March 20 . |
| 20 | 261 Squadron was taken over by Sqn.Ldr . |
| 21 | Astley was half taken over by evacuees . |
| 22 | It would take over the role in Ukraine of the former USSR Vneshekonombank ( Bank for Foreign Economic Relations ) , whose assets were taken over by Russia pending an agreement between the republics . |
| 23 | It was agreed at the March 13 meeting that a special division of the former Soviet Vneshekonombank ( Foreign Economic Bank — taken over by Russia [ see p. 38581 ] ) , independent of any CIS state , would administer the debt . |
| 24 | The delay had been caused by uncertainty over the status of Vneshekonombank , the former Soviet foreign affairs bank , which had been taken over by Russia in December [ see p. 38581 ] . |
| 25 | Now , de Broglie , when he hypothesised matter waves , related their wavelength to the particle momentum through the equation This interpretation was taken over by Schrödinger when he invented wave mechanics . |
| 26 | And a friend at college had an uncle whose company was taken over by Schreider Sterne . |
| 27 | As some of these private functions of unions have been taken over by welfare state agencies , unions have taken on other roles — especially representing their members in legal or industrial tribunals in claims over redundancy , discrimination , and negligence . |
| 28 | Noble sold the mill and by 1887 it had been taken over by Moses John Mason who , at his peak , was producing up to four tons of millboard per week . |
| 29 | One of the first brass mills in the region was set up by Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) in 1702 , but by 1930 the industry was extinct in the area , having been taken over by Birmingham . |
| 30 | It also gave him his first taste of advertising as he worked as a junior on the flotation of Harrison Cowley , later to be taken over by Saatchi & Saatchi . |