Example sentences of "[adv] take over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 2 | Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest . |
| 3 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 4 | It just took over from the lack of draw on the estate . |
| 5 | The determined practical side of my nature soon took over from the lazy brooding one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is ironic that the most interesting group of pre-Romanesque churches in Europe should be in a country largely taken over by the Moslems . |
| 9 | Corporatists share with pluralists a belief that the basic building blocks of the polity and the political process are groups formed around interests and that these have somehow taken over from the significance of representation through elections , parties and parliaments . |
| 10 | Similar numbers of people are expected to join YT schemes each year until 1992–3 , but as employers progressively take over from the government , its annual expenditure on YT is expected to fall — to some 760 million in 1992–3 ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 6.5 ) . |
| 11 | The LTTE offensive appeared to take the government by surprise , and over 20 police stations were quickly taken over by the LTTE . |
| 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 | Fewer requests for confirming analysis take place from the conceptual end , but a greater number are initiated through the scheming process which has gradually taken over from the conceptual phase as the main centre of the design work . |
| 14 | The mill was later taken over by the cloth producers , Woolwark and Bird , a concern that also occupied a number of other mills . |
| 15 | This festival was linked in the East with the birth of Mithras and later taken over by the Christians by conveniently moving the birthday of Christ to this date . |
| 16 | The East Somerset line later taken over by the Great Western Railway could never have made a profit . |
| 17 | On the day before the April 18 announcement , the President of the Serbian state presidency , Slobodan Milosevic , had declared that Serbia 's own internal affairs secretariat had now taken over from the federal authorities in administering public security in the province . |
| 18 | The SPA unanimously elected Kaysone Phomvihane , as the country 's new President , replacing Phoumi Vongvichit , who had served as President in an acting capacity since 1986 when he effectively took over from the ailing Souphanouvong [ see p. 35005 ] . |
| 19 | Many of those trainees go to smaller firms , perhaps taking over positions of responsibility or even taking over from the owners when they die and thus continuing the industry 's good work . |
| 20 | The socalled ‘ heritage ’ industry brought large numbers of foreign and other tourists to old centres of attraction like country houses ( now increasingly taken over by the National Trust ) , towns like Stratford , York , or Bath , and also to monuments of industrial or other archaeology . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This white turkey virtually took over as the sole breed ; and , by the Christmas of 1959 , there was hardly any demand for the bronze bird . |
| 23 | He 'd worked in Japan and married there , been bureau chief in South Africa and then taken over as the AP 's chief Middle East correspondent in Beirut . |
| 24 | At school , teachers supply their pupils with examples of adult behaviour , which in many respects will supplement and sometimes take over from the models supplied by parents . |
| 25 | When it comes to data storage , the second and third of these categories predominate , indeed take over from the first ( to the extent that it becomes important to the data creators that records which challenge or compromise them are destroyed ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Should n't somebody else take over at the wheel ? ’ she asked anxiously . |
| 27 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 28 | Some MEPs want ultimately to take over from the council the main responsibility for passing EC laws , while others want to concentrate on the right to appoint the European Commission . |
| 29 | Langdon went on to outline a scheme whereby Kim Ku could set up a governing commission , which would subsequently take over from the military government . |
| 30 | Now , the main lodging house in Ipswich was afterwards taken over by the Salvation Army Hostel . |