Example sentences of "taken over [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They have taken over and breed in a pride which is not the one in which they were born . |
| 2 | Seeing she was getting nowhere with Paul , he had taken over and saved her from having to cope with a great deal of harassment . |
| 3 | A major factor that has contributed to this has been the process of acquisition , by which firms get taken over and merged into larger companies . |
| 4 | Later it was taken over and paved by the Romans from a point north of Oxford to Sturdy 's Castle , where it met the east-west road of Akeman Street . |
| 5 | having closed their subsidiary in Wem , taken over and closed Simpkiss ( West Midlands ) and Davenports in Birmingham , have now decided to opt out of brewing altogether . |
| 6 | Another concept which has been taken over and reinterpreted is that of ‘ decentralization ’ . |
| 7 | Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’ |
| 8 | In theory they were writing a book on the actors , but long since the fascination of collection for its own sake had taken over and work on the collation of evidence ceased . |
| 9 | She remembered indistinctly the sense of her body being gradually taken over and pumped full of something that was not Phoebe . |
| 10 | The new appointments amounted to a purge of communist apparatchiks , among them Valentin Simonenko who had taken over as acting Prime Minister following Fokin 's resignation and was seen as Kravchuk 's first choice for premier , in favour of nationalists and industrialists . |
| 11 | Eric Priest has taken over as acting Chief Fire Officer for Cleveland after the retirement of Bill Cooney on health grounds . |
| 12 | Broadly , the parties can choose what liabilities are to be taken over or treated as taken over , although liabilities to employees and liabilities attaching to specific assets pass automatically . |
| 13 | When competitors pull out , get taken over or go bust , fares go up . |
| 14 | It is pretty clear that while big business is being done in local area network hubs and routers , the market is very overcrowded , and in those circumstances , the outcome is usually that the rich get richer and the poor get taken over or go bust : observers reckon that in that context , the richest of the rich is Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , which did $340m in the year to last July and is estimated to have at least 45% of the market and maybe as much as 50% ; Wellfleet Communications Inc is thought to be number two , with anything from 12% to 20% , with 3Com Corp third at around 10% , but in the hub sector alone , SynOptics Communications Inc is thought to have about 33% and Cabletron Systems Inc 15% , although the latter says the two are neck and neck . |
| 15 | If this is true , organic replicators , and eventually DNA , must later have taken over or usurped the role . |
| 16 | Once an imbalance occurs between the number of males waiting to acquire units and the number of units that can be taken over or entered , the system could go into a series of oscillations which would be self-perpetuating , at least for some time . |