Example sentences of "[prep] be taken over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man from the local education authority , after being taken over to the pub by Mr Malik , had announced his intention of sending his own son to the school . |
| 2 | After being taken over by the Catuvellauni they had a right to expect some restoration of their territories . |
| 3 | ( I was determined to combat in advance any risk of being taken over by G(R) , the Middle East equivalent of S.O.E. , which was already showing signs of being the monstrous and inefficient octopus it later became ; or coming under the control of the Director of Combined Operations . ) |
| 4 | Her pretty perspiring face split into a sheepish grin , then became serious again on reflection of being taken over by her baser instincts so completely . |
| 5 | One floor of the warehouse is devoted to publications from Polygon , founded in the 1960s as a radical student publishing company , and losing none of its avant-garde reputation despite being taken over by EUP three years ago . |
| 6 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 7 | On Jan. 3 over 40 holiday homes were blown up in Anghone and Porto Vecchio and a number of occupants taken hostage temporarily , to force the French government into " a true process of decolonization " and to stop Corsica from being taken over by property developers and turned into the " sun-tan centre of Europe " . |
| 8 | ‘ So , if you get wind of a rumour from Salome on , say , Bloggs International , which says that tomorrow they 're going to be taken over on very generous cash terms , then you buy as much Bloggs stock as you can . |
| 9 | The school 's on an island and you have to be taken over to it . |
| 10 | The command of all forces at Verdun was to be taken over at midnight . |
| 11 | ( This plan was abandoned when rumours began to circulate that the castle was about to be taken over as a headquarters for Field Marshal Kesselring ; rumours which subsequently proved to have no basis in fact . ) |
| 12 | The government 's policy was formally one of ‘ Ulsterization ’ , namely allowing a wide range of local programmes and policies to be taken over by local leaders . |
| 13 | FINANCIERS are pushing for Alan Bond 's highly geared media group to be taken over by Australia 's richest man , Mr Kerry Packer , and some leading institutions . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We can therefore expect , on government logic , local Conservative Associations to be taken over by business ratepayers bent on winning control of councils to promote spending on services and goods they either supply or would benefit them . |
| 15 | Tip 's first job on leaving school was as an apprentice at the old Tom Stewart clubmaking works at St Andrews , soon to be taken over by Spalding . |
| 16 | Thatcher said that the UK was ‘ financially sound ’ , there was a ban on overtime ( voluntary ) on British Rail ; the US was organising sanctions against Poland for daring to be taken over by the military and the Social Science Research Council , to muffled cheers and sobs , got a £1 million cut . |
| 17 | The last residents moved out towards the end of 1940 , leaving Barham House to be taken over by the army . |
| 18 | Bearing all that in mind , it is not difficult to see how the person who starts with a lack of confidence in one specific area of life soon seems to be taken over by that lack of confidence , which spreads to many spheres of activity . |
| 19 | It also gave him his first taste of advertising as he worked as a junior on the flotation of Harrison Cowley , later to be taken over by Saatchi & Saatchi . |
| 20 | Look at the wish to be locked in , the wish for the dark , the wish to be watched , to have one 's secrets known , to be taken over by someone else . |
| 21 | SMR 's role was to be taken over by the Shackleton-equipped Maritime Operational Training Unit at Kinloss and the unit was scheduled to disband in September 1956 with the remaining Lancs being ferried to Wroughton to await their fate . |
| 22 | A paper long allied to the Liberal tradition had been allowed to be taken over by the right-wing Mail . |
| 23 | ‘ The stories of my people go beyond oppression and the degeneration of society , ’ Mr McKay added , citing recent occasions in Canada when aboriginal communities have asserted their rights over ancestral land which was destined to be taken over by local developers . |
| 24 | January 15 is the date by which the inhabitants of Florida 's Vero Beach will know if their most famous local employer is to be taken over by the French . |
| 25 | We moved to Streatham Hill in June 1951 , to an estate owned by the same company , later to be taken over by Lambeth Council . |
| 26 | For flexibility and economy the operating system is implemented as a set of programs , though in future more of its functions are likely to be taken over by hardware . |
| 27 | More recently , the question has been raised as to whether it is contrary to the public interest for a private company to be taken over by a foreign state-owned company , given the privatization objectives of the UK government . |
| 28 | I should like it to be understood that we in Northern Ireland do not expect our tourism promotion to be taken over by Bord Failte . |
| 29 | No provision is to be made for liabilities to pay interest [ on loans not to be taken over by the purchaser ] ( v ) Full provision will be made for future rentals and other property costs on the Scottish warehouse lease |
| 30 | So only the police , army and ‘ bureaucracy ’ would be dismantled by the representatives of the proletariat , leaving the registration and accounting work of banks , factories , academies , syndicates , experimental stations , and other institutions to be taken over by proletarian soviets . |