Example sentences of "was take over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The campaign to oppose Maastricht , which had initially fallen into the hands of the Fascist National Front , led by anti-immigrant Jean-Marie Le Pen , was taken over during the summer by two rebels from each of the mainstream parties of the right — Philippe Séguin from the RPR and Philippe de Villier from the UDF . |
| 2 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
| 3 | In a report from Leningrad , Pravda revealed that the city 's first secretary , Mr Anatoly Gerasimov , had been relieved of his post , which was taken over by the Leningrad regional boss , Mr Boris Gidaspov , combining the two jobs . |
| 4 | In a report from Leningrad , Pravda revealed that the city 's first secretary , Mr Anatoly Gerasimov , had been relieved of his post , which was taken over by the Leningrad regional boss , Mr Boris Gidaspov , combining the two jobs . |
| 5 | The nearby premises previously used as the Fire Station , was taken over by the Borough Of Brentford and Chiswick , as their Electricity Headquarters . |
| 6 | Union ( which was taken over by the Grand Junction in 1894 ) — that if the canal was to survive , extensive repairs were essential . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The convent was in the protection of St Sophia and the church was dedicated to her , but changed its dedication when the building was taken over by the nuns of the Salesiane della Visitazione order . |
| 10 | The rushing sound of the water finally subsided and was taken over by the hiss of the cistern refilling . |
| 11 | The first unit to be completed was the 4.5in shell , the first of which was forged on Saturday 11 October 1941 , and with this unit in working order , effort was concentrated on the erection of the second unit , but on 24 January 1942 , owing to a change in policy , the manufacture of the 25-pdr shell was taken over by the States , and the second and third units were dismantled and prepared for despatch to America . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Dovercourt had just one season as a holiday camp before it was taken over by the RCM as short-term accommodation for refugee children . |
| 14 | This turned out to be so popular that production was taken over by the English parent company , leaving the colonial off-shoot to resume its original project . |
| 15 | Debt-collection became one of the administration 's chief activities , until the balance was taken over by the Native Treasury in 1935 , and finally discharged in 1944 . |
| 16 | The castle was taken over by the Hull Brewery Company in 1961 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The work of the JBCNS , the General Nursing Councils , the Central Midwives ' Boards , the Council for the Education and Training of Health Visitors , the Committee for Clinical Nursing Studies and the Panel of Assessors for District Nurse Training was taken over by the new United Kingdom Central Council and four National Boards for England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland , respectively . |
| 21 | The Beacon Nursery was taken over by the council , as requested by Mencap . |
| 22 | In 1977 , however , it was taken over by the institut , and when their funds were depleted a mainly American foundation came to the rescue . |
| 23 | When Yerkes died in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel his empire was taken over by the son of a Derbyshire coach-maker , Albert Henry Stanley . |
| 24 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Since enamelling was taken over by the west to produce jewels like that which tradition claims was presented to his foundation , New College , Oxford , by William of Wykeham early in the fourteenth century ( fig. 29 ) , enamel has held its own in the embellishment of symbols of high achievement . |
| 27 | The easternmost area of the site covers 144 acres , includes one of the water basins and the locks , and was taken over by the Medway Ports Authority ( ‘ the ports authority ’ ) . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | Responsibility for development and inspection was taken over by the Social Work Service and the work of the training council has been absorbed into the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work . |
| 30 | In 1910 , when a delegacy for women students was set up , control of the home students was taken over by the university and Bertha Johnson became the first woman to hold a senior university appointment in Oxford as principal of the Society of Oxford Home Students . |