Example sentences of "[be] [adv] taken over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 2 | I certainly want teachers to respond closely to the situation in which they are — but they need to be clear about the overall function of RE , what it is about , in order to respond in a way which is meaningful so as not to be just taken over by the latest influence . |
| 3 | I imagine that , once it 's going , even that role will be gradually taken over by those who are carrying it out : the ones who run the risk . |
| 4 | The LTTE offensive appeared to take the government by surprise , and over 20 police stations were quickly taken over by the LTTE . |
| 5 | The major bus undertakings and the UndergrounD railways ( including the Metropolitan ) were also taken over on that day , and the minor bus operators were drawn in one at a time later , but the main line railway companies ( including their suburban services ) were excluded . |
| 6 | In many Third World countries national liberation movements which failed to create effective political parties were either taken over by military elites or else the governments which they formed were overthrown by military coups . |
| 7 | Any powerfully gripping activity will produce , its casualties , and many programmers find their relationship with the machine exciting and satisfying without being completely taken over by it . |
| 8 | What I 've done is just taken over from Catherine last year on her topics which er , seem to quite successful and I certainly know that Marian did them last year and found them good . |
| 9 | The interior of the villa is largely taken over by the Modern Art Museum which is spread through 35 rooms that are still marvels of late eighteenth-century elegance , with luxurious decoration in plaster , parquet floors and chandeliers . |
| 10 | He later asked Scott to design a suburb of working-class housing , known as Akroydon , near Halifax , which was eventually taken over by Scott 's former pupil W. H. Crossland . |
| 11 | On early computers sets of subroutines to perform these manipulations were provided , but the task was soon taken over by hardware . |
| 12 | Over the next two hundred years the issue of notes , i.e. paper money , was gradually taken over by the Bank of England which maintained an adequate gold stock to back the note issue . |
| 13 | The present Clanna Weir House was formerly the main card mill and one of the other mill buildings was later taken over as a saw mill , power coming from a water turbine powered by waters channelled from the ponds above the site . |
| 14 | In the late 1930s , however , the Club failed and was later taken over by C.A.V. |
| 15 | The mill was later taken over by the cloth producers , Woolwark and Bird , a concern that also occupied a number of other mills . |
| 16 | It was later taken over by Holderness RDC and used as offices . |
| 17 | And then he was partly taken over by a piece he neither intended nor wanted to write and which preoccupied him obsessively , the dramatisation of the dispute , in the Yellow House in Arles , between Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh . |
| 18 | This portfolio was provisionally taken over by Deputy Prime Minister Claudio Martelli , pending the appointment of a successor . |
| 19 | It was then taken over by such excellent troupes as the Tiller and Jackson Girls who toured widely over Europe and America and later by the Drum Majorettes , who have also appeared in Balanchine 's works . |
| 20 | They are like the newly swept house of which our Lord spoke which was then taken over by more spirits than before ( Matt. |
| 21 | Now , the main lodging house in Ipswich was afterwards taken over by the Salvation Army Hostel . |
| 22 | However , others point out that at one stage AMV was prepared to offer a lot of money for Scali McCabe Sloves , the international group which had bought a substantial stake in AMV in 1979 and was subsequently taken over by WPP . |
| 23 | This developed into an IATA European exchange system which was subsequently taken over by IATA HQ in Montreal during the mid 1960s . |
| 24 | The PIMS exercise was subsequently taken over by Harvard University and by the mid-1980s a data base had been established including about 250 companies which have provided information on about 3,000 SBUs . |
| 25 | Astley was half taken over by evacuees . |