Example sentences of "over [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But on the other hand , in doing this he is in danger of passing over altogether the notion of social ‘ repression ’ . |
| 2 | Carpet of the same pattern as that in the hall was laid over only the middle part of the stairway and was held in place by little metal arms which pinned the carpet against the back of each tread . |
| 3 | Mr Hill said Bond 's board term was not over so the meeting could not vote on removing him . |
| 4 | The inside is plain ; the interior of the steeple is not roofed over so the construction is visible . |
| 5 | The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species . |
| 6 | However , when Stormont was abolished in 1972 and central government took over entirely the responsibility for local administration , it adopted the technocratic , non-policy making approach to its new role . |
| 7 | We 've just rolled over exactly the same rule , exactly the same provision . |
| 8 | The return journey over exactly the same distance is covered at 80 mph . |
| 9 | La Stet SpA , Italy 's state-owned telecommunications holding company , favours liberalisation , but opposes a system in which new telecommunications operators could take over just the most lucrative business , such as national long distance , which subsidises local calls , said Umberto Silvestri , STET 's chief executive . |
| 10 | Yet this still represents over double the figure of 80,000 which was the divorce rate in 1971 . |
| 11 | Clearly , there is no possibility of any government achieving this level of expenditure which equals the total spent on the whole of social security and is over double the amount devoted to the NHS and the personal social services . |
| 12 | Some children may be willing and glad to talk over beforehand the implications of forming a reconstituted family . |
| 13 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |
| 14 | What good businessman would hand over even the engagement dower without signing and sealing a contract ? |
| 15 | Again he is taking over precisely the ‘ modern ’ definitions and oppositions , between the normal and pathological , the natural and unnatural , etc. , which have been shown to be both confused and ideological in the narrow sense . |
| 16 | Is the Secretary of State aware that one of the most damning conclusions of the report on primary education which he published last week was the evidence that standards of reading among seven-year-olds have slumped since 1988 , over precisely the period when Ministers have produced one change after another in the system of standardised testing for seven-year-olds ? |
| 17 | However , if the counsellor seeks to support the position of the older person , care has to be taken over how the imbalance of power is handled . |
| 18 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 19 | In the London docklands housing has been the most politically controversial issue since LDDC assumed control over virtually the entire housing land reserve of three local authorities in its area . |
| 20 | One wave in 23 is over twice the height of the average wave . |
| 21 | What is interesting is that the actual deficits of 1971 and 1972 turned out to be over twice the planned deficits for those years and the actual deficit of 1975 three times the projected deficit for that year . |
| 22 | In order to expand output quickly Japanese firms did invest heavily at over twice the rates of their competitors , but this increase in their own capacity did not result in the demise of the small firm , rather subcontracted orders offered an expansion path based on interdependence . |
| 23 | The level of personal savings is particularly high in Japan at over twice the rate in Western economies , and as the majority preference is for assets with a lower risk , over two-thirds are kept in bank deposits . |
| 24 | Competition for a sixteenth-century Italian mirror with an architectural gilt and lacquered wood surround pushed bidding up to FFr 95,000 ( £9,700 ; $17,500 ) over twice the estimate set by Tajan and his expert Olivier Le Fuel . |
| 25 | However , Drugs Council clients had over twice the proportion of ‘ two bag ’ daily users ( 22 per cent against 9 per cent ) compared to clients of the Detoxification Unit , whereas the latter agency had nearly three times the proportion of 1 gram per day users ( 14 per cent against 5 per cent ) . |
| 26 | A so called ‘ rationalisation ’ of the market is now leading to the price charged in Britain rising at over twice the rate of inflation towards what is charged in other countries . |
| 27 | London and Leicester had almost three times the national average share , while Bradford , Slough , Birmingham and Smethwick had over twice the average ( Champion et al . , |
| 28 | For instance , in 1981 almost 36 per cent of Clacton 's population were of pensionable age , over twice the national average of 17.5 per cent , and people of older working age — either those taking early retirement or moving in anticipation of retirement after their children had grown up — are also strongly represented here and in similar resorts like Eastbourne , Worthing , Hastings , Llandudno and Torquay . |
| 29 | This is no surprise when , even in healthcare , the UK 's strongest area , the Japanese now invest over twice the amount the UK allots to R&D . |
| 30 | Provisional figures for the first part of 1990 suggested a lack of progress in combating inflation , which remained over twice the European average . |