Example sentences of "been taken over by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen .
2 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 .
3 In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen .
4 The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music .
5 The London jewellers Tessiers reopened on 5 November , having been taken over by new owners .
6 In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled .
7 Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people .
8 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 .
9 The more fertile areas of farmland along the coast had long since been taken over by German farmers .
10 Scotland 's last independent whisky company Invergordon has been taken over by American rivals Whyte and Mackay .
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