Example sentences of "taken over by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am thirteen years old , and if ten years of my youth were taken over by four plain walls and nothing to do , I know how I would feel . |
| 2 | But such cooperation was rare and quickly taken over by sectarian issues . |
| 3 | It was then taken over by such excellent troupes as the Tiller and Jackson Girls who toured widely over Europe and America and later by the Drum Majorettes , who have also appeared in Balanchine 's works . |
| 4 | Then in 1933 Hoare 's — and its Toby jug trademark — was itself taken over by an East End brewer , Charrington and Co of the Anchor brewery , Mile End Road . |
| 5 | This bought another East End brewery into the family tree , the Wenlock Brewery , in Wenlock Road , Shoreditch , just off the City Road , which had been taken over by Bass in 1961 and closed the following year . |
| 6 | Before that , however , in 1958 , the year the Albion brewery celebrated its 150th anniversary , Mann Crossman and Paulin had been taken over by Watney 's . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Here only the place-names refer to france ; the junipers , the spruce and fir , and the falling snow are taken over by Pound from a landscape at the other side of the world . |
| 9 | It is indeed time that the functions of both English and American literature were taken over by younger and better men . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | IAN CHAPMAN , the former head of publisher William Collins who left in acrimonious circumstances when it was taken over by media mogul Rupert Murdoch , is back in the book business with a venture that links him with Sir David English , editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers . |
| 12 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 13 | Sidney Samuelson , the chairman of lighting hire group Samuelson which was taken over by Eagle in 1987 , is also resigning though he will retain his position at Samuelson . |
| 14 | Rangoon radio said the airliner was 20 minutes into its flight when it was taken over by what it called ‘ terrorists disguised as passengers ’ . |
| 15 | The tribute will feature a preview of his latest work , Monkeyshines , a characteristically disturbing psychological chiller about a paraplegic taken over by his pet ape , at the Cannon at 8pm tomorrow , and an all-night retrospective of his celebrated exercises in subversive horror , Night Of The Living Dead , Dawn Of The Dead , and Day Of The Dead at the the Hyde Park Picture House , Brudenell Road from 11pm tomorrow . |
| 16 | Since then Stanley has been taken over by Ward White , Harris by James Gulliver 's Lowndes , and Ward White has been taken over by Boots . |
| 17 | Since then Stanley has been taken over by Ward White , Harris by James Gulliver 's Lowndes , and Ward White has been taken over by Boots . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The socalled ‘ heritage ’ industry brought large numbers of foreign and other tourists to old centres of attraction like country houses ( now increasingly taken over by the National Trust ) , towns like Stratford , York , or Bath , and also to monuments of industrial or other archaeology . |
| 20 | But a film like When the Devil Drives ( 1907 ) , in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky , shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination , while The Airship Destroyer ( 1909 ) , with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship , shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat . |
| 21 | Unsurprisingly , he left after completing only the one film , and his position was taken over by his erstwhile colleague , Victor Saville . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In a report from Leningrad , Pravda revealed that the city 's first secretary , Mr Anatoly Gerasimov , had been relieved of his post , which was taken over by the Leningrad regional boss , Mr Boris Gidaspov , combining the two jobs . |
| 24 | In a report from Leningrad , Pravda revealed that the city 's first secretary , Mr Anatoly Gerasimov , had been relieved of his post , which was taken over by the Leningrad regional boss , Mr Boris Gidaspov , combining the two jobs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 29 | When the printing operation of Mr Maxwell 's quoted company Maxwell Communications was taken over by its management this year , 24 per cent was retained by the former parent . |
| 30 | It was , more accurately , a wood-built open-air refreshment centre and it was taken over by Europe 's supporters . |