Example sentences of "be taken over " 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 | Most stockbroking analysts believe it inevitable that the troubled electronics group will be taken over . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I would hardly be joining a group if I felt it was about to be taken over . |
| 5 | One particular factor to be taken into account is the country in which incorporation is deemed to have taken place ; the criteria for this will vary from state to state , so care must be taken over this issue . |
| 6 | The strict pedagogic methods and moral precepts being worked out in 1922 by A. Makarenko at a microcosmic level near Poltava were to be taken over and applied wholesale to Stalin 's Russia in the 1930s . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This lover will be irresistible and she will be taken over entirely by him . |
| 9 | Throughout November and December a few big cod can be taken over low water from the end of the sandbar on night tides . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Given Mrs Thatcher 's relatively non-confrontational stance at Strasbourg , they hope by the time key decisions have to be taken over EMU next year , the British Government will have reviewed its EC strategy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One already in place provides that should one of Connaught 's three shareholders be taken over , it would lose its voting rights in Connaught . |
| 16 | Five and six years after an acquisition , the average acquiring bank 's share price is 30–40% lower than that of its peer group and the acquirer is likely to be taken over . |
| 17 | Faced with fierce competition , many of the country 's 380 or so small and medium-sized banks will merge or be taken over . |
| 18 | Now they have started again , as investors convince themselves that the worst of the recession is over ; as some junk-bond issuers take advantage of falling interest rates and the stockmarket rally to refinance their debt more cheaply or turn it into equity ; and as bond-raiders speculate in distressed companies that they think may restructure themselves or be taken over . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Despite this localization , however , there is some flexibility : if one region is damaged , its functions can in part be taken over by others . |
| 21 | With at least six candidates — five Conservative and one Labour — now in the race to replace Mr Bernard Wetherill , intense behind-the-scenes soundings will be taken over the next week to try to reach a compromise . |
| 22 | The school 's on an island and you have to be taken over to it . |
| 23 | Once an imbalance occurs between the number of males waiting to acquire units and the number of units that can be taken over or entered , the system could go into a series of oscillations which would be self-perpetuating , at least for some time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Care must be taken over the signs of relationships , specifying which category has been selected as the base for comparison ( see section 8.2 ) . |
| 26 | I was about to be taken over . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The last residents moved out towards the end of 1940 , leaving Barham House to be taken over by the army . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |