Example sentences of "[noun pl] take over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond that I suspect that 1,000dpi will become the breakpoint at which imagesetting based on optical methods takes over with the prices reducing significantly in that market as volumes increase . |
| 2 | One of them said : ‘ When the Communists took over after the war , some of the Fascists became the best Stalinists of all . |
| 3 | On April 24 , 1990 , the government legalized the Eastern Rite Catholic Church , although the return of church buildings taken over by the Orthodox Church remained difficult to resolve because of uncertainties over the current number of Uniates . |
| 4 | It was increasingly polished during the reign of Louis XIV when the first professional dancers took over from the courtiers after the founding of the Académie Royale de Danse within the Académie Royale de Musique ( 1672 ) . |
| 5 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 6 | Staff working at Hartlepool 's Middleton Grange Shopping Centre have been assured that their jobs will be safe when new owners take over from the borough council . |
| 7 | He had also appointed professional diplomats to take over from the members of the Soviet Political Consultative Council delegated to negotiate with the Baltic states on issues arising from their independence from the Soviet Union [ see p. 38541 ] . |
| 8 | If mind itself has a social origin — if , that is , it arises through the process of communication — and if thinking consists at bottom in the manipulation of generalized attitudes taken over from the social group as a whole , then there can be no question of the social determination , in some sense , of knowledge and thought . |
| 9 | The archosaurs took over from the mammal-like reptiles about two-thirds through the Triassic . |
| 10 | Couples took over as the American No 1 at the Bay Hill Invitational in March and stayed there , although he admits it was a struggle . |
| 11 | But this is a partial explanation ; as Urry ( 1981 : 93 ) points out , not all industries taken over by the state are necessarily unprofitable in private hands ; a striking recent example would be the nationalization of some of the leading French banks and industrial conglomerates by the Mitterand government in 1982 ( Durupty 1986a : 77–119 ) . |
| 12 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 13 | The Presidents of Yugoslavia 's six constituent republics took over from the federal presidency the principal role in negotiating Yugoslavia 's future when they began on March 28 a series of weekly summit meetings . |
| 14 | It was neat and clean , the smell of paint and thinners taking over from the smell of straw and apples . |