Example sentences of "[noun prp] be taken over by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Assam 's Governor , D. D. Thakur , resigned on March 15 , having been criticised by Rajiv Gandhi on March 13 for failing to tackle the insurgency threat ; he was replaced by Loknath Mishra , while his responsibilities in Arunachal Pradesh were taken over by Surendra Nath Dwiwedi , appointed as Governor on March 20 . |
| 4 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |
| 5 | JCI 's investments in the UK were taken over by Barnato Brothers Limited , a wholly-owned subsidiary of JCI . |
| 6 | The democratic governments in Chile and Uruguay were taken over by military dictatorships , as were the civilian regimes of Argentine and Brazil . |
| 7 | 1980 : UK Decca is taken over by the growing giant that is Polygram . |
| 8 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 9 | Late 60s early 70s : FLOWER POWER : NME is taken over by the complete staff of OZ magazine . |
| 10 | To boost their works team , the management headhunted a host of England Amateur internationals , giving them factory floor jobs , before Briggs were taken over by the American car giants and their football ground was developed . |
| 11 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 12 | Under a deal signed the following year , EPSI was taken over by a consortium formed by the Finnish chemical company Neste with the Portuguese companies Cortesi and Quintas & Quintas . |
| 13 | A complete floor in a central telephone complex in Belfast was taken over by army technicians . |