Example sentences of "take over the running of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , the decision is not challenged , the supervisor takes over the running of the IVA . |
| 2 | John takes over the running of a fleet which currently comprises over 2,800 vehicles . |
| 3 | This will take over the running of Channel 4 at the beginning of 1993 . |
| 4 | Lini also suggested that the churches should take over the running of a large part of the school system in the interests both of efficiency and economy . |
| 5 | This can , of course , create very undesirable consequences : social stability may be endangered by concentration of too much power and/ or wealth in too few hands ; the privacy of citizens may be abused under the excuse of maintaining law and order , or for commercial gains ; the state may take a " big brother " role ; the business community may acquire too much political power ; or , although very unlikely , IT experts may decide that they should take over the running of the country , since it is only they who can understand the unnecessary complexity of IT systems . |
| 6 | ‘ However , I have received an assurance from the Post Office that in the event of the present franchisees not being able to find a buyer for the business , then the Post Office will step in and take over the running of the counter service again . ’ |
| 7 | SCOTLAND 'S main teaching union yesterday joined parents and education authorities in strongly doubting Government plans to let headteachers take over the running of schools . |
| 8 | This was privately admitted by senior officers who took over the running of the fund two years ago , and after an inquiry by the Charity Commission more than £3,000 was repaid from regimental funds . |
| 9 | As had happened before with the labour education programs , the organisations which had been working with Highlander , and which had grown in depth of perspective and experience , took over the running of their own grass roots educational activities . |
| 10 | Initially all Gehlen 's funding came from the CIA but later , in 1954 when the German Federal Republic was established as a sovereign state , Gehlen took over the running of the Federal German Intelligence Service . |
| 11 | In 1858 , Samuel Healing took over the running of Abbey Mill , yet another in a succession of local mills that he had either owned or worked . |
| 12 | The local skaters took over the running of the skate club . |
| 13 | In 1892 , the Corporation itself took over the running of the tramway , and in the following year the situation was so bad that the current was switched off and the cars pulled by horses . |
| 14 | Presumably C.M.C. took over the running of the centre soon after that . |
| 15 | When her brothers joined up in 1914 she took over the running of the Ferry assisted by some local boys who enjoyed the good food that Mrs Stevens provided . |
| 16 | One lost his life on duty with an Arctic convoy , the other — Andrew — took over the running of the business as soon as he was demobilised . |
| 17 | In 1958 he took over the running of the Horncastle Maltings , which , after a series of ownerships was acquired by . |
| 18 | The Bank of England stepped in , took over the running of it and provided sufficient loans to cover the demands of its creditors . |
| 19 | It appears the Germans are taking over the running of Standard 's European branches . |
| 20 | Currently in Britain , private companies are taking over the running of the big training schemes . |
| 21 | They had four sons and four daughters , the eldest son , Edward Prentice Mawson , becoming a successful landscape architect and taking over the running of his father 's firm . |
| 22 | The row could end with the council taking over the running of the service . |
| 23 | Fr Rice has taken over the running of a detoxification centre started some years ago by a Mill Hill priest who died recently . |
| 24 | When her mother had died early in the war , Molly had smoothly taken over the running of the house and also the more difficult job of looking after Selwyn , the father she adored . |
| 25 | They both came under the orders of the elderly Lambert , who seemed to have taken over the running of the stable almost entirely from his master . |
| 26 | Then , nine months ago , when Luce Weston senior had been killed in a motorway pile-up , she had , at her niece 's request , taken over the running of the gallery . |
| 27 | Grandmothers were an integral part of life and so , when the mass emigrations began , it seemed perfectly right and natural for them to take over the running of the families left behind . |
| 28 | Changez did n't seem ready to take over the running of Paradise Stores . |
| 29 | Such books were published mainly in the 1920S and 1930S at a time when women had to learn to take over the running of their own homes , without the help of servants any longer , but still keeping middle- and upper-class standards . |
| 30 | New rules to allow private companies to take over the running of key public sector construction projects such as the the Channel Tunnel high-speed rail link , London rail links and major bridge and road projects . |