Example sentences of "[noun prp] take over from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ewen takes over from Les Nicholls who became senior director , Redrow Homes group . |
| 2 | In the back division , Mark Rayer is ousted by Tony Clement , Englishman Rupert Moon takes over from 46-times capped Robert Jones at scrum-half and Swansea centre Nigel Davies is preferred to Mike Hall . |
| 3 | Mrs S. took over from former club skipper , Colin Webley ( has he played for Leeds yet ? ) , and her slowness has already become legendary although , in fairness , she is restricted in her movements by a false hip made of Meccano . |
| 4 | None the less , irrespective of what their position might be , modern anthropology would reject the view that the progress of technology is totally irreversible , although the sequence of technological progress Marx and Engels took over from their anthropological sources is still , by and large , acceptable . |
| 5 | Bell was a supporter of the oral system , and upon learning of the difficulties faced by the Academy , he took over the teaching of the deaf children in the school for two months until the arrival of a Mr. Jones all the way from the U.S.A. to take over from him . |
| 6 | But in others Purcell takes over from the copyist in mid-movement — suggesting that he was composing directly into the theatre score . |
| 7 | Narasimha Rao took over from Arjun Singh in early December as leader of the house in the Lok Sabha . |
| 8 | In September Mr Michael Turner took over from Mr Mark Philpott as Library Assistant . |
| 9 | This was confirmed on 17 October 1940 , when Serrano replaced Beigbeder as Foreign Minister and the Falangist Demetrio Carceller took over from the anglophile Luis Alarcón de la Lastra at the Ministry of Industry and Commerce . |
| 10 | Francis Maude , hitherto a Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , took over Lilley 's former post as Financial Secretary to the Treasury ; Tristan Garel-Jones and the Earl of Caithness became Ministers of State at the Foreign Office , and Alastair Goodlad took over from Garel-Jones as Treasurer of Her Majesty 's Household ( Deputy Chief Whip ) . |
| 11 | Wally Hammond took over from Hobbs as the Great Man of English cricket . |
| 12 | COHSE members coming out on strike because of their refusal to take a little boy into the theatre for an operation , pin-ups being removed from the Yorkshire miners ' newspaper , painkillers being laced with poison in the US , John Nott walking out on Robin Day in front of the TV cameras , Helmut Kohl taking over from ( crash ) Helmut Schmidt and public service pay rises being kept down to 3 ½ per cent , every single event being , in some eyes , a disaster . |
| 13 | Gover took over from Strudwick in 1938 and has run it himself since 1954 . |
| 14 | The Benetton test job had appeared to be destined for fellow-Scot David Coulthard but he , apparently , has recently been approached by Frank Williams to take over from Hill . |
| 15 | Cochrane takes over from Jimmy Wattis , who resigned last weekend from the crisis-torn club . |
| 16 | Jenny Broadhead takes over from John Edelsten as treasurer . |
| 17 | It stood outside in the garden for years until John and Vera Brittain took over from the Thwaites at High Birk Hatt . |
| 18 | Owen took over from cartographers the convention that where outlines are unknown one should just dot them in ; so his pictures of fossil bones show conjectural restoration of broken or lost pieces . |
| 19 | Jorge Rodríguez was appointed as Education Minister in place of Antonio Francisco Salonia ( who had also held the Justice portfolio until January 1991 — see p. 37959 ) , and Enrique Rodríguez took over from Rodolfo Díaz as Social Security Minister . |
| 20 | In 1984 Mr Ratner took over from his father a small loss-making chain of jewellers which now has more than 2,000 shops in Britain and America . |
| 21 | Also in November Senator Ricardo Nuñez took over from Jorge Arrate as president of the Socialist Party ( part of the government coalition ) , in accordance with a 1990 agreement between the two men . |
| 22 | Mr Parkinson takes over from the Rev. Tony Smailes , who began his new job as vicar of St. Cuthbert 's in Ormesby on Sunday . |
| 23 | So Lanfranco Dettori takes over from Cochrane on Cullinan at Phoenix Park today and on Legal Case and Statoblest at Longchamp tomorrow . |
| 24 | If there are any changes to the side which beat the CIS it will be the return of Maurice Malpas for Tom Boyd at full back and Gordon Durie taking over from Kevin Gallacher up front . |
| 25 | Ian Durrant took over from an out-of-touch Peter Huistra at the interval and Rangers certainly produced a higher work rate in the second period . |
| 26 | Anthony Eden took over from Churchill in April 1955 as British troops began their withdrawal from the Canal Zone to new bases in Cyprus and Aden , and back to England to reinforce the Strategic Reserve . |
| 27 | Since Allison took over from Dennis Rofe , who walked out of the club refusing to work with Big Mal , Rovers have lost only once in the league and achieved three victories and a draw . |
| 28 | The materialist ‘ inversion ’ of the Hegelian dialectic that Marx took over from Feuerbach involves , according to Althusser , an ‘ epistemological break ’ . |
| 29 | President Bush took over from the 78-year-old Ronald Reagan at the age of 64 but within 11 days the rigours of office had taken their toll . |
| 30 | Among the other pro 's on the move are Tim Jenkins , who has left Castle Eden to take over from Fred Thorpe at Stressholme , the Darlington municipal course , and Steve McKenna , who has returned to Tynemouth after spending a year in France . |