Example sentences of "[vb past] be taken over by " in BNC.

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1 This bought another East End brewery into the family tree , the Wenlock Brewery , in Wenlock Road , Shoreditch , just off the City Road , which had been taken over by Bass in 1961 and closed the following year .
2 Before that , however , in 1958 , the year the Albion brewery celebrated its 150th anniversary , Mann Crossman and Paulin had been taken over by Watney 's .
3 In May the SAS were sent in to storm the Iranian Embassy in London which had been taken over by armed gunmen .
4 The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music .
5 Even in the mid-1980s , after major parts of its operations had been taken over by other bodies , it still employed 13,500 people .
6 Noble sold the mill and by 1887 it had been taken over by Moses John Mason who , at his peak , was producing up to four tons of millboard per week .
7 The horse buses were banned from the Promenade in the same year to avoid competition with the trams , which had been taken over by the Corporation in 1892 .
8 The first official post after September 3rd confirmed what we were told might happen , we were no more members of the London County Council staff , but had been taken over by the government and were to be known as part of the Emergency Medical Service .
9 There were some plans in existence and he studied old maps by R. Casson and J. Berry , which had appeared last in 1757 before the copper plates for them had been taken over by Harrop .
10 This responsibility had been taken over by the medical and scientific establishment , as represented by Dr Meuthen .
11 This latter vessel was hit by two torpedoes fired from the damaged Italian destroyer ‘ Tarigo ’ , which had been taken over by Sottotenente di Vascello Ettore Bisagno , the only surviving officer , after the commander had been killed ; the British ship went down near Kerkenah Island , but all the crew were rescued .
12 ( This helps to explain why so many English liberals ceased to support France when they heard that Paris had been taken over by the ‘ mob ’ in 1793 . )
13 At the date of this book , 1569 , the press had been taken over by Aldus 's youngest son , Paulus .
14 So I began to visit the civil hospital which had been taken over by the military for wounded and sick men from the British forces further south .
15 In May , Kismayo had been taken over by new forces , and most of the people from the original clans had fled .
16 First , when John Ryan was Wales coach , Neath could n't get anyone much in the team ; when Ron Waldron followed Ryan , it was as if the Welsh team had been taken over by Neath .
17 Indian soldiers stormed Kashmir 's police headquarters in Srinagar , which had been taken over by striking policemen .
18 On nationalisation this small research staff , under a refugee from Nazi Germany , Paul Schiller , had been taken over by the BEA 's commercial department .
19 Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl .
20 Increasing financial difficulties became another problem when Rotha Lintorn Orman 's mother cut her allowance , believing that the BF had been taken over by disreputable elements , who lived off her daughter 's money and manipulated her by making her increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs .
21 Freemasons were seen to be the power behind the French Revolution , whose role in contemporary disturbances such as the Russian Revolution had been taken over by the Jews .
22 Peter Northfield , public affairs manager for the Great Eastern division of BR 's Network SouthEast , said some commuters were angry because they normally used the carriage which had been taken over by protesters .
23 A crotchety old bugger ( any kid 's grandfather ) who had , in a state of terror , escaped in his machine from an advanced civilisation on a distant planet which had been taken over by some unknown enemy .
24 The tasteful domain of the unknown Kettering children , with its bright bedspreads , art reproductions and posters from exhibitions in Florence , had been taken over by the Pargeters , who would soon reduce it to a tip .
25 If the chain of being had been taken over by the materialists , those naturalists who believed that the order of Nature revealed the existence of a rational plan of creation preferred to invoke more complex patterns .
26 It had been taken over by a new contingent of tourists .
27 Meanwhile , the Trains were in 5th place in the second group and the lead had been taken over by Gyulay/Petervari .
28 More recently Marrakesh had been taken over by some of the biggest names in haute couture .
29 A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge .
30 In 1946 the premises at 94 Charing Cross road had been taken over by Tony Godwin , and under his ownership the place had become to radical culture what Collets , further down the same road , was to radical politics .
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