Example sentences of "[pers pn] be taken over by " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the ‘ fifties we were taken over by Leavisites — ghastly neurotics shrieking about maturity . |
| 2 | Taking over the isolation hospitals did not appeal , and the clerk of the council said that , in the event of the council 's not being able to find sufficient beds at Ampthill and Biggleswade for non-sick patients , it would be necessary to have a lien on the accommodation at Bedford and Luton institutions when they were taken over by the Regional Board . |
| 3 | However , complex these ideas may have been in their original conception , they were taken over by many educationalists in a simplified , stereotypic form , typified by the supposed dichotomy between ‘ elaborated ’ and ‘ restricted ’ codes . |
| 4 | The Ingelheim attendance list unfortunately does not include laymen ; but Nithard says that " all those living between the Meuse and the Seine " sent an urgent message to Charles in Aquitaine , " telling him to come before they were taken over by Lothar " . |
| 5 | Well , if you sent your money fairly recently , it 's probably still sitting in their offices unopened — Turbosoft still hold the lease on the building , and until it 's taken over by another company the GPO have no authority to recover and redirect mail . |
| 6 | It 'll close with the loss of at least a hundred jobs if it 's taken over by the Suffolk-based brewer Greene King . |
| 7 | It is taken over by Goblins and fortified . |
| 8 | IAN CHAPMAN , the former head of publisher William Collins who left in acrimonious circumstances when it was taken over by media mogul Rupert Murdoch , is back in the book business with a venture that links him with Sir David English , editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers . |
| 9 | Rangoon radio said the airliner was 20 minutes into its flight when it was taken over by what it called ‘ terrorists disguised as passengers ’ . |
| 10 | It was , more accurately , a wood-built open-air refreshment centre and it was taken over by Europe 's supporters . |
| 11 | Theakston was manager of T&R Theakston — most famed among beer drinkers for its Old Peculier ale — before it was taken over by Scottish & Newcastle four years ago . |
| 12 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 13 | In its earliest history the building housed the guardian of the eastern gate , but it was taken over by the Fontana family and completely remodelled , a reshaping that was carried out with all the grace of Renaissance art . |
| 14 | The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford . |
| 15 | Following a period of use for warehousing , the mill stood empty for two years , until it was taken over by Mike Cavanagh in 1976 . |
| 16 | Bakers have of course extended to the Brown Street corner , but in the twenties had Mr. Denham , the baker as neighbour , a beautifully clean shop which traded until the late 1940s when it was taken over by W. Shipsey and Sons . |
| 17 | However , the left-half position was never satisfactorily filled after Archie 's departure , until it was taken over by Johnny McNichol some five or six years later . |
| 18 | Dovercourt had just one season as a holiday camp before it was taken over by the RCM as short-term accommodation for refugee children . |
| 19 | Until 1980 , this was the British Country Club ; then it was taken over by the Regional Government and reverted to its original name , being opened as a Public park . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , financial problems continued to plague the paper , and in 1961 it was taken over by East African Newspapers Ltd , the Nairobi publishers of the Daily Nation , who wanted to get into the Tanzanian market . |
| 21 | Michael was signed to CBS Records before it was taken over by Sony . |
| 22 | NCR Corp first began talking about its Top-End transaction processing monitor at the beginning of 1991 ( UX No 317 ) , just before it was taken over by AT&T . |
| 23 | In 1977 , however , it was taken over by the institut , and when their funds were depleted a mainly American foundation came to the rescue . |
| 24 | , Emma ( 1838–1912 ) , evangelist , philanthropist , and manager of the Old Vic in the years before it was taken over by her niece Lilian Baylis [ q.v. ] , was born in London into a lower middle-class Anglo-German family . |
| 25 | Oh since this firm took over , well it was not B M K you know but it was taken over by the |
| 26 | It was taken over by the British Transport Commission ( later to become British Rail ) in 1949 and much of the magnificent original decoration and marble was either taken away , covered up or painted over . |
| 27 | Until 1860 this was the work of the college of commerce ; but in that year it was taken over by the foreign ministry and ten years later replaced by an annual list of Swedish diplomats and ministry officials . |
| 28 | With trading settlements and ports of call at Goa , the Cape and Lisbon , the Portuguese undermined the economy of the Mameluke Empire to such an extent that it was taken over by the Ottomans in 1517 . |
| 29 | It was taken over by the Pittard Group in 1987 but made serious losses in the last three years . |
| 30 | The jail was the scene of a hunger strike during the War of Independence after it was taken over by the military authorities in 1915 . |