Example sentences of "over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Meanwhile his old tutor , Frederick Temple , had resigned and Balliol invited Smith to take over as mathematical lecturer . |
| 32 | Apart from Mr Patten , four other ministers have lost their Cabinet posts : former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker , who is believed to have refused an offer to take over as Welsh Secretary ; Tom King from Defence , who asked for a break from office four months ago ; Peter Brooke from Northern Ireland ; and Lord Waddington , former leader of the Lords . |
| 33 | I also met the Marquess of Hartington , who , since he took over as Senior Steward of the Jockey Club in July , has worked extremely hard and is already greatly respected in that role ; also Mr and Mrs Johnny Henderson who were shortly off after a business trip to Australia via Bangkok , and home via Dubai , where alas , they arrive after I will have left : Mr and Mrs Malcolm Kimmins , he was one of the stewards ; the Hon. |
| 34 | She soon found a new challenge when she took over as British Team Manager in 1985 . |
| 35 | A leading member of the Democratic Unionist party , Hussein Soleiman Abu Salih , took over as Public Works and Housing Minister . |
| 36 | Instead Helen Mules , who has been in the department for eleven years , has taken over as Associate Curator Acting in Charge . |
| 37 | It transpired that Peter Carrington and his Foreign Office team of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce had all resigned , and a little later it was announced that Francis Pym was to take over as Foreign Secretary . |
| 38 | Two months later he was able to bring down the Government , and Lord Malmesbury took over as Foreign Secretary in the new Conservative administration . |
| 39 | At 81 , he has taken over as artistic director at Rome Opera , where the exuberant administrative director , Gian Paulo Cresci , has run up a deficit of close to £25 million . |
| 40 | It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer . |
| 41 | All the large houses have been pulled down , or taken over as nursing homes . |
| 42 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 43 | Do n't you know that whatever was between you is over for good ? ’ |
| 44 | But within months , he was telling friends his marriage was over for good . |
| 45 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
| 46 | He says he 'll continue to wind the church clock — but a twenty four year old labour of love is over for good . |
| 47 | But on Sunday this highlife of glittering gold and glamour will be over for good . |
| 48 | Election ‘ 92 : The agonising is over for floating voters |
| 49 | After dinner , it 's like , it gives them a taste of what it 's like they go over for odd |
| 50 | It was submitted A that the judge in taking a multiplier of seven to compensate the ten point four years loss , was taking a figure that was too low and B , that in applying a substantial discount for other imponderables he was discounting twice over for early death . |
| 51 | But in the artificial , unrelenting competitive world of perpetual travel and token nods across the net , there is n't too much time — or inclination — left over for real friendship . |
| 52 | But in the artificial , unrelenting competitive world of perpetual travel and token nods across the net , there is n't too much time — or inclination — left over for real friendship . |
| 53 | A council spokesman said : ‘ All employees are issued with identity cards which they are always happy to hand over for close inspection . |
| 54 | Recent research ( by Don Walz in the U.S.A. ) shows that the black pigmentation uses so much protein that there may be insufficient left over for normal growth and health . |
| 55 | Now that the registration period is over for Interim Development Orders , I presume you have moved into the phase of validating the claims . |
| 56 | Other large proportions go to space and civil aviation , leaving little left over for industrial R&D . |
| 57 | All of these were admitted to the smallpox hospital , which was , however , later demolished , when the ground was built over for industrial purposes . |
| 58 | Time and again we have seen large country houses taken over for institutional use , whether as corporate headquarters or hospitals . |
| 59 | Instead , they were taken over for institutional use , sometimes in a public-spirited move to give them a new lease of life , sometimes for exploitation as large areas of relatively cheap floor space . |
| 60 | Britain 's biggest Building Society says the worst could be over for hard pressed mortgage payers . |