Example sentences of "had 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 . |