Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ? |
| 3 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 4 | Pat McGeough was asked to consider his position after the club was taken over by Bio-mass . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 8 | fewer jobs may be required as routine work is taken over by machines |
| 9 | Dowty is taken over by the TI Group |
| 10 | Cleopa Msuya was transferred from Finance , Planning and Economic Affairs to Industry and Trade ; the Finance portfolio was taken over by Stephen Kibona . |
| 11 | His former portfolio was taken over by outgoing Deputy Interior Minister Hugo Estigarribia Elizache . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His Interior portfolio was taken over by Rudolf Seiters , whose post as Head of the Chancellery went to Friedrich Böhl . |
| 15 | Goldemberg himself resigned in early August and his portfolio was taken over by Eraldo Tinoco [ ministerial and other resignations taking place in the context of the widening corruption scandal will be covered in detail in the September News Digest ] . |
| 16 | Jackson died in 1915 , the editorship being taken over by his son , Horatio . |
| 17 | On that occasion the site was taken over by the Vickers-Armstrong aircraft factory but it was never suitably repaired and racing never returned to Brooklands . |
| 18 | On Hicks 's death in 1869 the business was taken over by G. R. Crickmay of Weymouth and , with the exception of a few weeks in 1870 spent in London with John Raphael Brandon , architect of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Gordon Square , Hardy worked intermittently with Crickmay in Dorchester and Weymouth until 1872 . |
| 19 | Sam Oxley 's millwright business was taken over by a Mr Wheatcroft in a turn a Mr Thompson took over from him . |
| 20 | The effect of new technology was to automate and de-skill many of the clerical tasks , as more and more routine was taken over by punched card machines and later by computers . |
| 21 | Whole rooms of the Turk 's Head were taken over by bits of fairground waiting for the revival that would send Uncle Titch and Grandad chortling off to the local branch of the Co-op . |
| 22 | Despite this localization , however , there is some flexibility : if one region is damaged , its functions can in part be taken over by others . |
| 23 | But a film like When the Devil Drives ( 1907 ) , in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky , shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination , while The Airship Destroyer ( 1909 ) , with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship , shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat . |
| 24 | Clermont was taken over by the dux Victorius , a Gallo-Roman whom Euric had appointed as governor of Aquitania Prima ; Sidonius was sent into exile . |
| 25 | The paper was taken over by the Shanghai party committee . |
| 26 | In fact the world-wide Hilton chain was taken over by the Ladbroke Group in a £645 million deal completed in September 1987 ( Ladbroke also owns the Texas Homecare d-i-y store chain ) . |
| 27 | Their premises at Church Wharf were taken over by Gwynne 's , an engineering firm , then making pumps , also the ‘ Albert ’ car . |
| 28 | 2 ( — ) BOOMERANG : Love 'em and leave 'em adman Eddie Murphy gets his come-uppance when his firm is taken over by a woman in this frivolous star vehicle . |
| 29 | When a road is taken over by the local authority there are usually substantial charges to be paid , but often , in the case of estate roads , the developers have accepted responsibility and entered into a bond with the local authority to secure their liability . |
| 30 | Now , de Broglie , when he hypothesised matter waves , related their wavelength to the particle momentum through the equation This interpretation was taken over by Schrödinger when he invented wave mechanics . |