Example sentences of "take over from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lord Justice Taylor , set to officially take over from Lord Lane on April 27 , was speaking in court one of the town centre building . |
| 32 | One Scotsman looking forward to Rome is David Will , who will take over from Harry Cavan as vice-president of FIFA when the Irishman retires during the World Cup next June . |
| 33 | Rudi will take over from Karl . ’ |
| 34 | The leg-spin wizard will take over from South African quickie Richard Snell next season . |
| 35 | Sir James , who is due to retire shortly , could take over from May 1984 the task of director general of ESA , the organisation that coordinates the space activities of 11 West European nations . |
| 36 | He will take over from Mark Brighty who will be out for five weeks with a broken toe . |
| 37 | Mr Louis-Dreyfuss will take over from Gilberte Beaux as chairman of the company 's management board . |
| 38 | Dorothy Hardisty did not actually take over from Sir Charles Stead as executive director until the outbreak of war , but by then she had already made her presence felt as an able and energetic deputy . |
| 39 | The steps would be : ( i ) the drafting by CODESA within a few months of a constitution for a transitional government ; ( ii ) a national referendum on the transitional constitution , probably before the end of the year ; ( iii ) a general election to choose a new multiracial parliament and government , the composition of both to be determined by the transitional constitution [ see p. 38422 for NP 's views on composition of both bodies ] ; ( iv ) the commencement of rule by the transitional government , on the authority of the transitional parliament , which would take over from CODESA as the negotiating forum for the " final " constitution ; and ( v ) adoption of the final constitution , probably with another referendum . |
| 40 | The fact is I 'm looking for someone who one day could take over from Morgan . |
| 41 | The message Fernando Collor de Mello brought with him was that Brazil , where he would take over from President Sarney in mid-March , no longer wanted to be tagged as a Third World nation . |
| 42 | Paul Benson , who is aged 39 , will take over from John Goldsworthy at the 175-bed hospital , which is now one of the largest West Sussex employers with a staff of some 500 people . |
| 43 | he was gon na take over from Gooch |
| 44 | She will take over from Bryan Barker who is retiring in July . |
| 45 | hello there … welcome to the empty manager 's office at the Manor Ground … the desk is clear … the chair vacant who will take over from Brian Horton … we 've a competition for you tonight in which you can vote for who you want to be the new Oxford United manager … but what a weekend it 's been and Central South of course was first with the news that shook the football world … |
| 46 | hello there … welcome to the empty manager 's office at the Manor Ground … the desk is clear … the chair vacant who will take over from Brian Horton … we 've a competition for you tonight in which you can vote for who you want to be the new Oxford United manager … but what a weekend it 's been and Central South of course was first with the news that shook the football world … |
| 47 | Connie Hedegaard took over from Engell as the Conservatives ' parliamentary leader . |
| 48 | But those trips will probably be few and far between over the next two years since his already groaning workload was increased still further last month when he took over from Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , as chairman of the 100 Group of finance directors . |
| 49 | Opening Larkfield 's petrol station was Ray Hayne 's first official function as district manager on South Eastern area since he took over from Alan Rowland on his retirement . |
| 50 | The writers , Norman Hudis and Talbot Rothwell ( who took over from Hudis with Carry on Cabby ) wrote for Ken and knew exactly which part would be his . |
| 51 | Under Sole 's command Scotland won 14 times , and when he took over from Finlay Calder as captain in 1989 he continued a sequence that was to lead to another record : 13 successive victories at Murrayfield . |
| 52 | New appointees were : as Finance Minister , Mihaly Kupa ( an economist who , under the former " reform communist " regime , helped draft the first income tax system in Eastern Europe ) ; and as Ministers without portfolio Ernö Pungor ( head of the state office for technology development and of the national nuclear energy committee ) , Katalin Botos ( hitherto Rabar 's deputy in her post as State Secretary for Finance ) , and Andras Galszecsy ( who took over from Boross responsibility for the state security services ) . |
| 53 | Sam de Beer took over from Stoffel van der Merwe as Minister of National Education . |
| 54 | Thijs Lijbregts , who took over from Rinus Michels after Holland won the European Championship , has the additional pressure of managing one of the fancied teams while his best player , Ruud Gullit , is struggling to recover from a knee injury that has so far necessitated four operations and is threatening his career . |
| 55 | Following long negotiations , we took over from Spinneys on 1 November at a number of hospitals , Ministry of Defence and other institutions . |
| 56 | McGrath , who took over from Jim McCalliog in October last year , for just 14 months , taking over in October last year from Jim McCalliog , and had 10 months of a two-year contract to run . |
| 57 | When Harold Macmillan took over from Anthony Eden in January that year , he had three primary objectives in mind : to place the British economy on a sounder footing ; to repair the damage done to Anglo-American relations by Suez ; and to restore the fortunes of the Conservative Party . |
| 58 | They are part of the endeavour to create the balance between ‘ financial strength and creative vitality ’ which Ms Rebuck described as the challenge facing Random House — a ‘ pure ’ trade publisher , which can not fall back on income from professional or reference publishing — when she first took over from Anthony Cheetham 18 months ago . |
| 59 | Moreover , Calvin Coolidge , the Vice-President who took over from Harding , was a New Englander of puritanical honesty who had won national fame by saying , when the Boston police went on strike in 1919 , that there was " no right to strike against the public safety by anybody , anywhere , any time " . |
| 60 | Narasimha Rao took over from Arjun Singh in early December as leader of the house in the Lok Sabha . |