Example sentences of "be [verb] to take over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under new powers , also approved on June 26 , the Serbian Assembly had been empowered to take over the affairs of the Kosovo Assembly and of other official bodies , and to suspend troublemakers . |
| 2 | It is understood that British Petroleum chairman , Sir Peter Walters has been shortlisted to take over the job . |
| 3 | Sunderland 's housing committee is to be asked to take over the property with a view to renting it to a would-be tenant who could buy it outright in future under the right-to-buy scheme . |
| 4 | The construction industry 's authority should remain a statutory body while the Engineering Training Authority should be allowed to take over the functions of the old engineering industry training board . |
| 5 | Parents have in some cases been asked to take over the practice of hearing their children read almost exclusively , either at home or in school . |
| 6 | Swindon Town had a weekend off … but travel to Grimsby tomorrow … amid rumours that Glenn Hoddle has been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 7 | Football , and Swindon manager Glenn Hoddle has denied rumours that he 's been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 8 | This question echoes the old debates over the so-called ‘ managerial revolution ’ ( Burnham , Berle and Means ) where salaried personnel were seen to take over the running of firms . |
| 9 | He had a brother , Richard , who was later to play an important part in the family 's advancement in Rome , being destined to take over the running of the Conti estates in the Romagna . |
| 10 | ‘ So , Mr Calder , you were n't really surprised at being asked to take over the job of chairman ? |
| 11 | His death comes amid a widening split in the party between his loyalists and supporters of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , who leads a coalition government led by the PML and has been trying to take over the party leadership . |
| 12 | In contrast , former City favourite Francis Lee , who is trying to take over the club , was cheered before the match , at half-time , and when he left the ground 13 minutes before the end . |
| 13 | The second question concerns the care referred to in section 31(2) ( b ) ( i ) , namely , whether the care can refer to care by a third party , in this case a grandmother , who is offering to take over the care of the child . |
| 14 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 15 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
| 16 | Indonesia , which was expected to take over the chair of the movement from Yugoslavia in September 1992 , was elected by the Larnaca meeting as de facto chair with immediate effect . |
| 17 | It was at a meeting in February 1880 of Emma 's co-workers and tenants in south London that it was decided to take over the Victoria Theatre ( familiarly known as the Old Vic ) in the Waterloo Road , a hitherto dirty and drunken home for melodrama , and turn it into a coffee music hall for purified and teetotal entertainment . |
| 18 | Carl was destined to take over the duties and responsibilities of his father from an early age . |
| 19 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 20 | In the autumn of 1918 , following the resignation of Mr. A. H. Pott , the Manager and Engineer of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and the London United Tramways , C. J. Spencer , the Bradford Manager , currently absent on war service with the Admiralty , was invited to take over the management of the three London tramway companies . |
| 21 | Control was informed of the news and the relief signalman , Ted Hudson who lived in Market Rasen , was summoned to take over the operation of the box . |
| 22 | In 1938 Cranmer was asked to take over the captaincy from Bob Wyatt . |