Example sentences of "have be taken over by " in BNC.
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1 | On the school 's noticeboard , religious notices have been taken over by election literature and copies of the government 's exhortations to take part in today 's vote for parliament as a ‘ religious and political duty ’ . |
2 | They will tell you of problems in the area , forthcoming planning proposals , tree preservation orders , which of the drains have been taken over by the Council , road and transport problems , pollution , public rights of way , and so on . |
3 | Struggling Second Division Wigan Athletic have been taken over by a London-based consortium . |
4 | Areas of the economy in which formerly goods and services such as medicine , education , transport and energy were supplied by the private sector , have been taken over by the public sector and the key issues as to how much should be supplied and at what price , have been decided directly or indirectly by the ballot box rather than the market place . |
5 | Most shops and herds have been taken over by families or collectives . |
6 | As some of these private functions of unions have been taken over by welfare state agencies , unions have taken on other roles — especially representing their members in legal or industrial tribunals in claims over redundancy , discrimination , and negligence . |
7 | A few have become derelict as smaller farms have been taken over by the larger conglomerates but many have been restored for non-farming families : that is , those which have not got past the point of no return after being left open to the four winds for too many years ; fit only for pigeon habitation . |
8 | Three armagnac houses have been taken over by cognac firms , and double distillation ( méthode Charentaise ) has begun to infiltrate the region . |
9 | Similarly , it can be maintained , the educational functions of the family have been taken over by more specialized agencies , as have the functions of leisure and protection . |
10 | Since the 1950s , many of these functions have been taken over by the record producer . |
11 | Indeed , in many organisations , the tasks of project appraisal have been taken over by corporate planners , whose primary concern is to ensure that projects , however viable , possess ‘ strategic fit ’ , ie they conform with the long-term aims of the organisation . |
12 | Because of the present confusion in East Berlin , the owners of the buildings are unknown and many of them have been taken over by squatters from all over the world who make paintings , installations and sculpture frequently from old junk and scrap metal , create theatre and festivals , run parties and discos , bars etc . |
13 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
14 | A compromise solution may be for the vendor to hive the Target business and assets down to a newly formed target company in its group and for Newco then to acquire Target , in the knowledge that only specified liabilities have been taken over by the new Target . |