Example sentences of "take over the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accept a £12m offer to move Wimbledon north to merge with a League club who would take over the Premier League franchise . |
| 2 | The Government , he added , should take over the legal battle to reclaim millions of pounds which Robert Maxwell plundered from pension funds instead of leaving professional advisers charging £1m a month to unravel the complexities of the disgraced tycoon 's financial dealings . |
| 3 | Marx fancied that he could simply take over the Hegelian analysis and , in Engels ' famous phrase , ‘ stand Hegel the right way up ’ with no reference to the fact that Hegel 's whole analysis is rooted in an effort to resolve quite specific problems which he inherited in the theory of knowledge . |
| 4 | Foreign labour was cheaper than Libyan , and it was excluded from the benefits of socialist legislation , in particular from the provision that workers could take over the private businesses for which they worked . |
| 5 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 6 | The district attorney system will take over the criminal prosecutions , and the corrupt philosophy of the contingency fee will pervade the whole system . |
| 7 | He would then take over the European Components ' planning activity when everything was centralised in Detroit . |
| 8 | ( 4 ) With effect from Jan. 1 , 1994 , the federation and the Länder named in Article 1 of this treaty as well as the Trust Agency shall take over the total debts which have accrued to the Special Fund up to Dec. 31 , 1993 , in accordance with Article 27 ( 3 ) ( concerning borrowing and debts ) of the Treaty of May 18 , 1990 , between the FRG and the GDR establishing a Monetary , Economic and Social Union … |
| 9 | BTE Glenrothes will take over the existing subcontract engineering business . |
| 10 | However , the two cardinals who did take over the musical reforms the Pope 's young nephew Carlo Borromeo and Vitellozzo Vitellozzi were men of intelligence and culture . |
| 11 | As did the suggestion that Liz and Owen might take over the old home . |
| 12 | A Youngman protégé could take over the old boy 's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely . |
| 13 | Now , V D U and eye tests I 'll take over the main primary agenda . |
| 14 | The King of Ireland would take over the ceremonial duties of the Irish President , who is now nominally set over the Irish Prime Minister . |
| 15 | I have seen some very attractively variegated mint which I would like to grow in the flower border , but my mother says it will take over the whole garden . |
| 16 | ‘ You think I 'll take over the whole show , do n't you ? ’ accused Mountbatten . |
| 17 | The poverty-stricken could then take over the deserted metropolises . |
| 18 | This I overplayed by spending too much time in the rear of the stalls watching rehearsals , and an assistant would take over the Royal deliveries . |
| 19 | It announced that it would not be concerned with the public sector and that it would not take over the extant SORPs from the Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 20 | I 'll know it 'll be he who 'll end up cassandring me , precisely in nomansland where the male gods will ever take over the pythian oracles , turning them into twittering spokespersons . |