Example sentences of "over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke moved back to his desk , picked up a paperweight and stood toying with it , turning it over and over between strong , square-tipped fingers . |
| 2 | Now and again one zooms over about tree-top height but soon disappears , followed a few seconds later by Allied fighters . |
| 3 | His place will be taken by our Vice Chairman , Peter Coupe , GE Capital , and Basil Billinger , Touche Ross , takes over as Vice chairman in addition to PRO . |
| 4 | By doing so , reasoned the party 's elderly barons , the way would be clear for a baron to take over as prime minister come the party 's annual meeting in October ( four of the party 's five factional bosses were caught taking payoffs from Recruit ) . |
| 5 | Viscount Palmerston had taken over as Prime Minister by then only to lose that position to Lord Derby again but only for a year , as the Liberals were able to take control of Parliament in 1859 , with Viscount Palmerston remaining as Prime Minister until 1865 , during which period many changes took place . |
| 6 | The Conservative Prime Minister , Bonar Law , decided to resign as leader , due to illness George also resigned as leader of the Liberals — and Stanley Baldwin took over as Prime Minister . |
| 7 | Fortunately the Governor seized the initiative and the same day called on Nu to take over as prime Minister . |
| 8 | Nu decided to pre-empt any coup by offering to propose to parliament that Ne Win should take over as Prime Minister . |
| 9 | Following Barrow 's death on June 1 , 1987 , his former deputy , Erskine Sandiford , took over as Prime Minister . |
| 10 | John Boraston took over as Principal Agent in 1912 , having been a professional organizer all his career and latterly chief agent to the Liberal Unionist Council . |
| 11 | Warren Buffett , an Omaha billionaire with a formidable Wall Street reputation , took over as temporary chairman and chief executive . |
| 12 | Their grandparents may have been brought over as forced labour when Korea was still a colony , but even descendants born and brought up in Japan are denied civil service jobs and positions with major corporations . |
| 13 | Charles Secrett takes over as executive director of Friends of the Earth in April . |
| 14 | But the battle to take over as Labour leader will become the focus for a potentially acrimonious debate between the two wings of the party over the cause of the defeat . |
| 15 | Mr Mladenov , the youngest member of the politburo at 53 and regarded as its most liberal figure , takes over as General Secretary . |
| 16 | In the UK , Oxford-based Hytec Computer Systems Ltd , has been bought out in a £1.8m management buy-out the ICL reseller of its Unix mid range computer systems will be headed up by Suat Yilmaz who will take over as managing director . |
| 17 | David Lloyd , a director of the family business for seven years , has taken over as managing director of the Shropshire-based Lloyd 's Animal Feeds group . |
| 18 | On July 17 Fareed had announced the formal entry into government of the Hezb-i-Wahdat , and on July 25 he confirmed that the government intended to retain the Shia Gen. Khodad Hazareh who had taken over as Interior Minister under former interim President Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi on June 26 . |
| 19 | ITALIAN-owned RCS Video has bought a majority stake in London-based Majestic Films International , which has been involved in the financing and marketing of a series of successful films including Dances with Wolves and Henry V. Guy East , who founded the company in 1988 , will retain a significant shareholding and takes over as chief executive . |
| 20 | ‘ The big surprise was to discover that people were good at things they had no idea about , ’ says Hamilton-Phillips , who converted the VGA into a limited company when she took over as chief executive in 1984 . |
| 21 | John Welsby , a former transport department civil servant who came to British Rail 10 years ago and took over as chief executive in January last year , believes the new system could prove unwieldy . |
| 22 | In due course Vernon Hunt retired and I took over as Chief Inspector of Accidents on 1 January 1974 . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Chris Conway takes over as chief executive of DEC UK from chairman Geoff Shingles . |
| 24 | The improvement comes from a restructuring programme put in place by David Peacock , who took over as chief executive 18 months ago . |
| 25 | Harry Tabiner will take over as chief executive on April 1 , succeeding Malcolm Tooze who retires early on March 31 . |
| 26 | He took over as regional party leader in July in place of the hardliner Mr Lev Solovyov , a junior member of the politburo who also failed to get elected . |
| 27 | He took over as regional party leader in July in place of the hardliner Mr Lev Solovyov , a junior member of the politburo who also failed to get elected . |
| 28 | After winning a third trainer 's title in the 1983–84 season he left Yorkshire and took over as private trainer to Robert Sangster at Manton . |
| 29 | Vice-President Itamar Franco , 61 , a veteran politician but relatively unknown and untouched by the corruption scandal , was set to take over as interim President in early October . |
| 30 | Two thousand librates of prime tillable land , that is one hundred thousand acres , convenient to the Border , of the Plantagenet 's choice , were to be handed over as free gift , with all the folk thereupon . |