Example sentences of "to take control [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 2 | Microsoft 's attempts to take control of the US Windows-based home finance and small business accounts market has so far failed to unseat Intuit 's top selling package , Quicken 6 for DOS . |
| 3 | One of the last acts of the Directorate of Government Protection before it was abolished [ see above ] was to take control of the Izvestiya publishing house on Oct. 27 . |
| 4 | However , a report in the Washington Post of March 14 claimed that the move marked the start of an ambitious new phase in Syria 's longstanding campaign to take control of the PLO . |
| 5 | The first allowed Ragusa to take control of the Pelješac peninsula on payment of an annual tribute to Tsar Dušan , ruler of the Serbian empire . |