Example sentences of "over in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it is a shame that more people are not convinced by the results that care in the community is producing and are not prepared to move over in greater numbers , ’ says Mrs Polson , who was also a sister at Aycliffe Hospital during her 10 years there . |
| 2 | The ‘ deterrent ’ compounds of many rain-forest plants are used ( and have been fought over in major wars ) by humans to flavour food , e.g. cinnamon ( bark of Cinnamomum verum , Lauraceae ) , tea ( alkaloids and tannin of Camellia sinensis , Theaceae ) leaves , ginger ( rhizome of Zingiber officinale , Zingiberaceae ) and seeds such as nutmeg ( Myristica fragrans , Myristicaceae ) , cardamom ( Elettaria cardamomum , Zingiberaceae ) , and coffee ( Coffea arabica , Rubiaceae ) , and cloves ( flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum , Myrtaceae ) . |
| 3 | Of course it must be agony for him to go shopping for me ( what does he do at the chemist 's ? ) , so I suppose he prefers to get it all over in one go . |
| 4 | Paint a blown egg all over in one colour and varnish it . |
| 5 | Boards can be painted all over in one colour , or individually to form a formal or striped or variegated pattern ; they can be stencilled , given a border , or topped with all sorts of imaginative decorative effects ( see Paint Finishes , pages 368–79 ) . |
| 6 | Over in one corner Church was systematically emptying bottles . |
| 7 | Over in one corner was a washstand , with a big old jug , and beneath it , large and unwieldy , decorated in lurid purple flowers , an antique piss-pot . |
| 8 | You will be getting scenarios and you wo n't be expected to put all that information over in one block , you 're expected to structure your information . |
| 9 | They 'll be flown over in one of the biggest movements of horses ever . |
| 10 | And as I say , there was always one I remember that sticks passively in my mind when she came over in one December five weekends on the trot ! |
| 11 | So the hearing was over in two minutes . |
| 12 | ‘ All better now , darling , — over in two shakes — come on , close your … ’ |
| 13 | The entire stock of the nation 's glasses turns over in two years so there is no reason why this measure should result in any implementation costs or why the price of a pint should go up . |
| 14 | Bailey is Britain 's number five and 240th in the world … the difference between them showed today … iit was all over in two sets … |
| 15 | Bailey is Britain 's number five and 240th in the world … the difference between them showed today … iit was all over in two sets … |
| 16 | For me , however , the performance is a revelation , unearthing a vast amount of inner detail that is usually glossed over in other recordings . |
| 17 | The bizarre story of British academic institutions ' flattery of the Ceauşescus could be repeated many times over in other impeccably democratic countries . |
| 18 | I was nearly run over in New Palace Yard after the vote by the surge of Jaguars roaring out of the carpark and off to the country for the weekend . |
| 19 | Again , I was very disappointed that it was all over in such a short time . |
| 20 | There was danger , too , underfoot : the path had been ploughed over in many places and here and there were lumps of frozen earth covered with snow , and slippery . |
| 21 | Well it was over in nineteen eighteen . |
| 22 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 23 | THE scene is the same the world over in dark alleys or dimly-lit streets . |
| 24 | But he said he did n't mind as long as he was helping the war effort , and anyway it would all be over in six months and he could go back to selling firewood . |
| 25 | Maybe it wo n't , and my father says it 'll be over in six months anyway , so none of them will have to go . ’ |
| 26 | Again , in the late 1920s Max Born told a group of scientists visiting Göttingen that ‘ physics , as we know it , will be over in six months . ’ |
| 27 | Then again , in 1928 , physicist and Nobel prize winner Max Born told a group of visitors to Göttingen University , " Physics , as we know it , will be over in six months . " |
| 28 | Every time the woman was marking off the numbers Shaney was turning the card over , you know , she turned it over in six cards . |
| 29 | The same addresses are used twice over in each of these cells . |
| 30 | ‘ My father thought that the new democratic government which took over in 1980 would create more jobs in the capital . |