Example sentences of "[noun] be taken over by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | During the first period after independence , development was hampered by the first civil war , during which many schools were taken over by the army . |
| 3 | In 1903 the Wolverton ( Boys ' ) and Old Bradwell Schools were taken over by the Bucks County Council on 29 September at a nominal rent of 5s per annum for each school . |
| 4 | We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ? |
| 5 | The four vacant ministries were taken over by former state secretaries as follows : Gunter Halm of the FDP ( Economics ) , Peter Kauffold of the SPD ( Food , Agriculture and Forestry ) , Werner Skowron of the CDU ( Finance ) , and Manfred Walther of the CDU ( Justice ) . |
| 6 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 7 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 8 | Pat McGeough was asked to consider his position after the club was taken over by Bio-mass . |
| 9 | This view is not new ; in fact it was put forward by Durkheim and other nineteenth-century writers , but it was often disregarded after the study of crime was taken over by the new discipline of criminology in the early twentieth century . |
| 10 | 1970 saw another change when the canteen was taken over by a catering company , and vending machines for hot and cold drinks , and snacks were provided . |
| 11 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 12 | The economics involved may mean some smaller ITV companies are taken over by larger ones or even open to takeover from Continental broadcasters . |
| 13 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 14 | In 1988 , however , the MSC was disbanded as a separate , semi-autonomous organisation , and its functions were taken over by a new section set up within the Department of Employment , originally called the Training Agency but later renamed the Training , Enterprise and Education Division . |
| 15 | Erm , in many ways , one could say that the community or community organisations , local organisations are capable of running most things , erm , indeed they did at once , and some of those functions were taken over by the central or local state . |
| 16 | Slowly the asylums were taken over by the medical profession . |
| 17 | Oxford could be reached by boats of similar size , but further up the Thames cargoes were taken over by " lightening " boats . |
| 18 | Polly 's duties were taken over by a Groses ‘ bus of Northampton . |
| 19 | Antonio ( whose ministerial duties were taken over by his deputy , Edmundo Carlos Alberto ) was the first member of the government to be held in connection with the plot ; he was also a member of the Frelimo central committee . |
| 20 | Nobody became more interested in the fate of these early directors than Scott Fitzgerald , and his unfinished novel The Last Tycoon is essentially about how directors were taken over by producers in the Hollywood system . |
| 21 | fewer jobs may be required as routine work is taken over by machines |
| 22 | Dowty is taken over by the TI Group |
| 23 | Soon after the Shah left Teheran , the Iranian embassy in Washington was taken over by militants and by members of Zahedis staff who had hitherto seemed loyal to him and the Shah . |
| 24 | His position as Minister in Charge of Relations with CTSP and Associations was taken over by Lt.-Col. Birama Sire Traore , who exchanged his portfolio of Secretary of State for Internal Security with Maj. Moussa Diabate , hitherto Minister of Territorial Administration . |
| 25 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 26 | Cleopa Msuya was transferred from Finance , Planning and Economic Affairs to Industry and Trade ; the Finance portfolio was taken over by Stephen Kibona . |
| 27 | His former portfolio was taken over by outgoing Deputy Interior Minister Hugo Estigarribia Elizache . |
| 28 | Vidal , whose portfolio was taken over by Victor Yamamoto Miyakawa , accused the government of trying to cover up the seriousness of the disease 's spread . |
| 29 | The Presidential Affairs portfolio was taken over by Awad Ahmad al-Jaz , formerly Commerce , Co-operation and Supply Minister ; al-Jaz was replaced by Abd el-Munim Khujali , whose former Energy and Mining portfolio was taken by Uthman Ab al-Wahhab . |
| 30 | His Interior portfolio was taken over by Rudolf Seiters , whose post as Head of the Chancellery went to Friedrich Böhl . |