Example sentences of "have [adv] been [vb pp] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hotel has just been taken over by Herr and Frau Sulzur , and already there is a friendly atmosphere . |
| 2 | Macedonia , lying across the southern end of the Vardar-Morava corridor which connects the central Danubian lowlands to the Aegean coasts , has always been fought over by rival powers . |
| 3 | One such building in the suburb of Karlshorst was a Stasi training centre less than a year ago , and has now been handed over to local artists , who have turned it into a Kunst Haus ( art house ) and bar . |
| 4 | Nelson 's column unexpectedly has now been taken over by a large , bearded Welshman , called Davydd . |
| 5 | Of course the company did n't pay any dividend , and has now been taken over by a firm making china and porcelain goods . |
| 6 | The work of fostering and supporting such groups has now been taken over by a national organization called Cope , which works closely with local social services departments and adult education departments to spread the approach across the country . |
| 7 | It 's strange that there are an awful lot of our team who have never played at Twickenham , because the traditional Harlequins fixture at the beginning of the season has now been taken over by League fixtures and they are now played at the Harlequins ground The Stoop . |
| 8 | Most of it has n't been turned over for years . |
| 9 | Taking the first function , while it is true that the education ( and hence , also , [ … ] socialization — since the two can not be readily separated ) of children and young adults has increasingly been taken over by agencies outside the home such as schools , play-groups and youth organizations , the basic primary socialization of the child is still very much a responsibility of a nuclear family . |
| 10 | A Pakistani soldier seized by Somali gunmen in a battle which killed 23 of his colleagues has reportedly been handed over to his commander . |
| 11 | It has conveniently been handed over to the training and enterprise councils , but then the Government cynically deny them the resources to do the job . |
| 12 | However , its marketing has recently been taken over by Letraset and we await to see the outcome . |
| 13 | In the case of a registered title , of course , you would undertake to forward LR form 53 , the charge certificate having commonly been handed over on completion . |
| 14 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 15 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |
| 16 | Between 19 and 24 May , 12,196 Croats had already been handed over through 6 Armoured Division area , although many had been held in camps under 78 Division and 46 Division . |
| 17 | The little ‘ writing room ’ had already been taken over by Alison , her typewriter on the table , her notebooks spread about . |
| 18 | Faced with losses of £1,500,000 a week , chairman Nick Schele said the company would have closed by now if it had not been taken over by Ford . |
| 19 | Her eyes scanned the first page quickly , taking in the expected account of how Ellen had looked after Oreste as her own , but when she came to the reasons why he had not been handed over to Gigia , Wilson slowed down and even repeated the words to herself . |
| 20 | The predicament of peasants on state lands which had not been handed over to private landowners was marginally easier , but did not differ fundamentally from that of the private serfs . |
| 21 | Polisario claimed that military information had also been handed over to Morocco , and in a written submission to the UN on Dec. 11 alleged Moroccan violations of the ceasefire ( in force since Sept. 6 ) . |
| 22 | He went bounding up the stairs , three or four at a time , praying to himself the room had n't been taken over by some amorous couple while he 'd been away , cursing himself for doubting her . |
| 23 | Maybe Jeff was right that the man was insufferable and she had simply been bowled over by his formidable good looks and by that quality of heady excitement he exuded . |
| 24 | The Doctor had again been taken over by his thoughts . |
| 25 | Administrative assets " primarily used for the purposes of the former Ministry of State Security/National Security Office " would " accrue to the Trust Agency unless they have already been given over to new social or public purposes since the above mentioned date " . |
| 26 | It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe . |
| 27 | It 's just been taken over by you know , it 's gone into the big big time er Oh dear me , I forget his name now . |
| 28 | Because y do n't forget that in the past , building societies have always been taken over by you know , sort of friendly merger . |
| 29 | The minutiae of its English outcrop from Dorset to Yorkshire have probably been turned over by more loving hands than have touched any equivalent heap of sediment elsewhere . |
| 30 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |