Example sentences of "be [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ultimate distinction for any performance of this work must be to topple over and drown in its own pretentiousness and Segerstam 's direction does n't possess quite the urgency or the dazzle to achieve that . |
| 2 | The Council had been insisted upon by the Benelux countries which , notwithstanding their strong commitment to the cause of integration , wanted a body whose purpose would be to watch over and defend the national interests of the smaller participants . |
| 3 | The idea would be to compile over a short period a national register of wealth holdings . |
| 4 | Our particular role may be to take over consciously and with some degree of awareness that which was formerly done on a more instinctive level . |
| 5 | One way of avoiding most of the problems associated with legislative guide-lines , while still ensuring a reasonable degree of control over the way sentencers exercise their discretion , would be to hand over the task of preparing the guide-lines to an independent sentencing commission or council , of the kind proposed by Ashworth ( 1993a : 447 , 1997 : 91 ) . |