Example sentences of "be taken over by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judgements made in the course of a lecture will be taken down in notes as if they were facts , whereas it is in the nature of critical judgements that they can not be taken over by others ; it is on this dilemma , I believe , that Leavisism ultimately foundered . |
| 2 | That role will be taken over by Glanmor Griffiths , the WRU treasurer , who has been elevated , with Denzil Lloyd , to the International Board , Home Unions and Five Nations committees . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | FINANCIERS are pushing for Alan Bond 's highly geared media group to be taken over by Australia 's richest man , Mr Kerry Packer , and some leading institutions . |
| 5 | He declined to specify the Formula One team 's ownership structure , quote a price or nominate prospective buyers — though , as reported in Tuesday 's Guardian , there is speculation that the team will be taken over by people who want to field an all-Italian line-up , with Emanuele Pirro displacing Britain 's Martin Brundle and joining Stefano Modeno . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ We can therefore expect , on government logic , local Conservative Associations to be taken over by business ratepayers bent on winning control of councils to promote spending on services and goods they either supply or would benefit them . |
| 7 | Its responsibilities East of Suez would be taken over by a new tri-Service headquarters established at Aden under an air vice-marshal with the title of HQ British Forces , Middle East . |
| 8 | It recognized that there was a National Health Service and a private sector and , rather than arguing that one should be taken over by the other , proposed sensible cooperation between them for the benefit of patients . |
| 9 | Despite this localization , however , there is some flexibility : if one region is damaged , its functions can in part be taken over by others . |
| 10 | Tip 's first job on leaving school was as an apprentice at the old Tom Stewart clubmaking works at St Andrews , soon to be taken over by Spalding . |
| 11 | Thatcher said that the UK was ‘ financially sound ’ , there was a ban on overtime ( voluntary ) on British Rail ; the US was organising sanctions against Poland for daring to be taken over by the military and the Social Science Research Council , to muffled cheers and sobs , got a £1 million cut . |
| 12 | The last residents moved out towards the end of 1940 , leaving Barham House to be taken over by the army . |
| 13 | Christianity is not true because it makes its claims more boldly or more loudly than anything else ( or belief would be taken over by bravado ) . |
| 14 | Bearing all that in mind , it is not difficult to see how the person who starts with a lack of confidence in one specific area of life soon seems to be taken over by that lack of confidence , which spreads to many spheres of activity . |
| 15 | However , as it now seemed certain that the Company would be taken over by the new authority that was to unify public transport in London , before very long , these projects were left in abeyance . |
| 16 | It also gave him his first taste of advertising as he worked as a junior on the flotation of Harrison Cowley , later to be taken over by Saatchi & Saatchi . |
| 17 | In the first place , the entrepreneurial function was likely to become redundant , largely because innovation would be taken over by teams of specialists in large corporations . |
| 18 | But gradually the pattern changes until we see the growth of commercialism by which time the symbols in ornament had less meaning as such social networks were supplanted by more cohesive political groups ; production could at that time be taken over by entrepreneurs who continued the evolution of regional designs but who were distributing the goods in an entirely different manner . |
| 19 | Look at the wish to be locked in , the wish for the dark , the wish to be watched , to have one 's secrets known , to be taken over by someone else . |
| 20 | Julia Smith 's duties will be taken over by Verity Lambert , head of Cinema Verity , the show 's independent producers . |
| 21 | SMR 's role was to be taken over by the Shackleton-equipped Maritime Operational Training Unit at Kinloss and the unit was scheduled to disband in September 1956 with the remaining Lancs being ferried to Wroughton to await their fate . |
| 22 | A paper long allied to the Liberal tradition had been allowed to be taken over by the right-wing Mail . |
| 23 | Whatever is left of these assets will , of course , be taken over by Novell . |
| 24 | THREE historic sites in Colchester now run by English Heritage may be taken over by the borough council . |
| 25 | The Benson and Hedges cricket competition will then be no more ; the increasingly national rugby league competition will probably be taken over by a beer , cola , telecommunications , or insurance sponsor . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | January 15 is the date by which the inhabitants of Florida 's Vero Beach will know if their most famous local employer is to be taken over by the French . |
| 28 | Neither , however , was complete withdrawal of the French from Indo-China for , as it was assumed that in all likelihood Indo-China would be taken over by the militant communist group , at best there might follow a transition period marked by chaos and terrorist activities , which would then create a political vacuum into which the Chinese inevitably would be drawn or pushed . |
| 29 | We moved to Streatham Hill in June 1951 , to an estate owned by the same company , later to be taken over by Lambeth Council . |
| 30 | For flexibility and economy the operating system is implemented as a set of programs , though in future more of its functions are likely to be taken over by hardware . |