Example sentences of "take [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Centrepiece of the design is the tall , rectangular flat diaphragm , which , produces all the treble information , and the midband area above 200Hz ( in fact there 's a slow handover which takes place over a matter of octaves ) . |
| 2 | Once a year , usually in September , the BKA holds its convention and A.G.M. which takes place over a weekend . |
| 3 | It now takes place over the weekend of April 24 and 25 . |
| 4 | Instead , a number of small changes in status and recognitions of the progress towards adult status takes place over a number of years . |
| 5 | Because as recognized a century ago by Ravenstein ( 1885 , 1889 ) most movement takes place over shorter distances , migration 's role in population change becomes more important as the spatial scale of analysis descends . |
| 6 | It is possible that the entire text is a combination of description and recollection from the perspective of a single flight , in which case it takes place over the course of a few hours , the time it takes to read it . |
| 7 | The ballot is organised by an independent teller — usually the Electoral Reform Society — and takes place over several weeks . |
| 8 | During the fluent phase , planning takes place over a larger unit than the clause . |
| 9 | In the U.S. , trading takes place over the counter on the basis of prices quoted on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation ( NASDAQ ) system . |
| 10 | It is a function of family breakdown , which takes place over generations and whose consequences the Government will have to tackle . |
| 11 | If we were just gon na bolt together the two unions then that may be able to be done in a couple of years or so , but if we 're trying to build something better , then we 're talking about a project that takes place over several years . |
| 12 | The result is that melting takes place over a range of temperatures , and this range is a useful indication of sample crystallinity . |
| 13 | As weak springs can only stored a fraction of the potential energy that a strong spring can hold , the remainder is lost as heat and if the change from a strong to a weak spring takes place over a period of time , equivalent to the observation time , then the energy loss is detected as mechanical damping . |
| 14 | On average , a body is injected with approximately 12–16 pints of the one and a half per cent or two per cent solution and this takes place over a time period of approximately one to two hours . |
| 15 | The action takes place over one disastrous weekend full of rain , fights and missing room service . |
| 16 | ‘ Villette ’ starts in the narrator 's girlhood , and takes place over several years ; ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is over a period of three or four days . |
| 17 | ‘ Slide ’ opens the set , all big chords and yeah , slide guitar ; ‘ Smile ’ , with a dangerously narcotic and very BIG bassline that takes control over your entire body , is brain-bruisingly splendid , as is ‘ Hey Sister ’ , the song that proves that they can do fast ones , they can do slow ones and they can then do ones with car-alarm noises in the middle . |
| 18 | He said : ’ The purpose of the rule is clear : It is the circuit breaker between monetary union and the back-door creation of a United States of Europe' , where a centralised government takes control over domestic public expenditure as the price of a bail-out . |
| 19 | And also you 'll like it because the house had to be split into two separate halves — the garden takes priority over domestic comfort . |
| 20 | The need to feed the addiction takes priority over all other activities , leading to personal neglect , anti-social behaviour and crime . |
| 21 | Parental wishes and the filling of every desk in the school ( as it has been described ) takes priority over matters of efficiency and economy . |
| 22 | This takes priority over everything , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 23 | You talk to the man you are buying it from and he really takes trouble over you . |
| 24 | ‘ Very serious grounds are needed to infringe anonymity , and it is generally accepted even by the Swedish judiciary that the public 's right to be informed takes precedence over law and order considerations , ’ said Ms Frances D'Souza , director of Article 19 , the International Campaign against Censorship . |
| 25 | What a relief it is to know the name of the instrumentalist or conductor concerned and to listen to a programme of records where music takes precedence over ‘ talk for talk 's sake ’ . |
| 26 | And as you must realise , that summons takes precedence over any other . ’ |
| 27 | The literary bias of British film reviewing has rarely been quite so plainly stated — Coward is the established name , his reputation guaranteed by years of theatrical success , hence he takes precedence over the mere maker of pictures . |
| 28 | The legal profession is not always entirely blameless in these matters , for there is often left in the minds of interested people the suspicion that , in the courts of law the scoring of points and the winning of cases takes precedence over the desire to administer justice and establish truth . |
| 29 | The next building block is our family priority in which our spouse actually takes precedence over the rest of the family . |
| 30 | As a result of this case the UK is now obliged to change its legislation because Community law takes precedence over conflicting national law . |