Example sentences of "be taken over by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 3 | We have recommended that the Authority continues to monitor reading standards across the city but that the screening function of its traditional tests be taken over by National Curriculum Assessment at the end of Key Stage One . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | From today , the way we care for others who are less able will be taken over by local councils . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | In the end support staff act as information switches and this is exactly the sort of function that can be taken over by electronic data processing . |
| 8 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 9 | The number of large publishers is much smaller — a figure of a few hundred , steadily diminishing as the smaller independent firms are taken over by large conglomerates . |
| 10 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 11 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |
| 12 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 13 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 14 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |
| 15 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 16 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 17 | Indeed , in many organisations , the tasks of project appraisal have been taken over by corporate planners , whose primary concern is to ensure that projects , however viable , possess ‘ strategic fit ’ , ie they conform with the long-term aims of the organisation . |
| 18 | The more fertile areas of farmland along the coast had long since been taken over by German farmers . |
| 19 | Scotland 's last independent whisky company Invergordon has been taken over by American rivals Whyte and Mackay . |
| 20 | The democratic governments in Chile and Uruguay were taken over by military dictatorships , as were the civilian regimes of Argentine and Brazil . |
| 21 | There are signs of cracks in the bonding however as bigger and better shops are being taken over by Pakistani families . |
| 22 | The software world is gradually being taken over by little animals , and they 're not the sort of cuddly , fluffy ones we 're used to seeing . |
| 23 | Of this , 5.1 million is being converted to forest fallow , of which , in 1982 , there was 409 million , with only 1 million ha of unforested land being taken over by natural regeneration . |
| 24 | Equally important , how many of them will be strong enough to avoid being taken over by foreign companies in the long run ? |
| 25 | Oyston sees the north being reduced to Third World status , and is alarmed that the country is being taken over by foreign investment . |
| 26 | Burial in a churchyard was becoming a thing of the past in central London from the 1840s onwards ; space was too precious , and the task of burying the dead was taken over by non-denominational cemeteries run largely on a commercial basis . |
| 27 | Naxos and Karpathos are thought to have had Minoan colonies too , and a very strong Minoan influence is seen at Agia Eirene on Kea : perhaps it was an existing town that was taken over by Minoan traders and administrators . |
| 28 | The effect of new technology was to automate and de-skill many of the clerical tasks , as more and more routine was taken over by punched card machines and later by computers . |
| 29 | Instead , the pitch was taken over by massed Southend fans demanding the resignation of chairman Vic Jobson . |
| 30 | His former portfolio was taken over by outgoing Deputy Interior Minister Hugo Estigarribia Elizache . |