Example sentences of "have been taken over by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland 's last independent whisky company Invergordon has been taken over by American rivals Whyte and Mackay . |
| 2 | It is a gut reaction to the sense of having been taken over by affluent and alien strangers . |
| 3 | The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners . |
| 4 | Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people . |
| 5 | In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen . |
| 6 | The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music . |
| 7 | In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled . |
| 8 | Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs . |
| 9 | Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen . |
| 10 | A crotchety old bugger ( any kid 's grandfather ) who had , in a state of terror , escaped in his machine from an advanced civilisation on a distant planet which had been taken over by some unknown enemy . |
| 11 | More recently Marrakesh had been taken over by some of the biggest names in haute couture . |
| 12 | Indeed , in many organisations , the tasks of project appraisal have been taken over by corporate planners , whose primary concern is to ensure that projects , however viable , possess ‘ strategic fit ’ , ie they conform with the long-term aims of the organisation . |