Example sentences of "have taken over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zon International has announced that it has taken over the UK distributorship for Solar lighting products . |
| 2 | Since Jim Henson 's sudden , untimely death his son Brian has taken over the company reins and continues the great tradition by trundling out Kermit as Bob Cratchit , Miss Piggy as Emily Cratchit , Fozzie Bear as Fozziwig , Rizzo The Rat as Himself and The Great Gonzo as narrator Mr Dickens . |
| 3 | I would hate to have to tell him that a new type of gentleman has taken over the clubs and boardrooms , a man who does not consider dishonesty the property of the criminal classes and who , moreover , believes that the notion of the gentleman is negotiable . |
| 4 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 5 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 6 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 7 | To cap it all , the Devil has taken over the church and sits impaled on the spire with a long snaky whip sorting out anyone who 's left . |
| 8 | Subsequent of that of course to meet the need we had Stage Directions come into being very vibrant thrusting young people theatre 's company and really what 's happen is that Stage Directions in part anyway has taken over the mantle of the old Harlow youth theatre . |
| 9 | Elastogran Polyurethane 's machine construction division , a subsidiary of BASF , has taken over the polyurethane technology product sector of Kloeckner Ferromatik Desma . |
| 10 | Mr F. Dunn has taken over the Rail Agency at Ludlow Station . |
| 11 | This is because all possible fictions of scientific progress are virtual in present-day technology which has taken over the function of ‘ productive ’ simulation . |
| 12 | Neil Gray , a burly farmer from Morrinsville , has taken over the post of All Black manager from John Sturgeon , who was not available . |
| 13 | Since the Criminal Law Revision Committee produced its Working Paper , the Crown Prosecution Service has taken over the task of prosecuting from the police . |
| 14 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 15 | Philip Anderson ( Holywood ) has taken over the reins at Lisnagarvey from Terry Gregg and hopes to emulate the numerous successes achieved there in recent seasons . |
| 16 | Ernst Beyeler , doyen of Basel dealers , has taken over the Kunstmuseum and the Kunsthalle to connect paintings with sculpture |
| 17 | It is far easier from their point of view if they only need to deal with one entity and they will probably prefer that to be the purchaser as it is the purchaser that has taken over the business . |
| 18 | Analyst Judith Hurwitz , now running her own shop , Hurwitz Consulting Group , has taken over the multimedia newsletter Media Letter from Myriad Technologies to add to its own Tool Watch . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Svidrigailov has taken over the suicide role , which is to say the blanket boredom has become positively terminal . |
| 20 | Now techno has taken over the city . |
| 21 | The Neighbourhood Watch Committee provides a regular newsletter for the village and has taken over the distribution of Christmas parcels to the pensioners . |
| 22 | NEWLY-promoted Det Chief Inspector Mike Paddon has taken over the job and office of his retiring twin Terry at Exeter police HQ . |
| 23 | One has the odd title of the Boulevard du B.A.B. , revealing that it has taken over the line of the old tramway , the Bayonne-Anglet-Biarritz ; the other , further back from the coast , is the N10 , once the crowded highway along which French motorists hurtled into northern Spain but now a gentler place to drive , the motorway having supplanted it . |
| 24 | The sprightly priest , who at 75 came close to retiring but is now glad it never came off , has taken over the parish of St Paulinus in St Helen Auckland , County Durham . |
| 25 | The sprightly priest , who has taken over the parish of St Paulinus in St Helen Auckland in County Durham , said : ‘ As long as I am fit as the way I am now I will continue to serve the community . ’ |
| 26 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 27 | Berliner Bank has taken over the Berliner Stadtbank , which emerged from the break-up of the former east German state bank . |
| 28 | Fr Rice has taken over the running of a detoxification centre started some years ago by a Mill Hill priest who died recently . |
| 29 | With its departure and the collapse of the junk market , no one else has taken over the role . |
| 30 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |