Example sentences of "over into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sense of deprivation has spilled over into civil conflict or war a sufficient number of times for it to be a continuing threat , or an on-going reality as in Chad , Sudan , Ethiopia , Burundi , Uganda and Somalia . |
| 2 | It could so easily spill over into civil disorder and violence . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
| 4 | Many of the concepts of systems analysis , useful in management theory as well as in computer technology , spilled over into adjacent areas . |
| 5 | By the early 1960s the largest metropolitan areas in Britain had moved into ‘ absolute decentralization ’ , whereby the principal settlements of each began to lose population , and by 1971 several of these areas were facing overall population decline , with residential decentralization taking place across their boundaries and spilling over into adjacent city-regions or further afield ( Hall et al. , 1973 ; Spence el al. , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | There were few predictions of a Tory victory at the next general election and even some concern that the country might topple over into serious civil strife . |
| 7 | Thus , while the pluralist political system may experience close liaison between bureaucratic agencies and client groups , in the corporatist state this spills over into covert encouragement by political leaders of direct action by pressure groups . |
| 8 | She warns of thirst for knowledge tipping over into dangerous greed , and of youthful promise lost for one fatal flaw . |
| 9 | They build idealised models but then carry them over into real usage as though they really existed , forgetting that they had initially involved ‘ bracketing ’ certain assumptions . |
| 10 | We approach a tight bend : the driver talks to the conductor ; the morning sun shines blindingly — I peer over into pure space . |
| 11 | So it appears that a general tendency to unhappy and aggressive social interaction spins over into mother-child management struggles . |
| 12 | Many new acts are using country as a means to an end , neatly crossing over into other styles , even other media , once they have established a solid following . |
| 13 | The difficulty with this result is that advertising is usually only one part of a marketing strategy , and that agreements on advertising are likely to spill over into other elements of that strategy including prices . |
| 14 | Rhetorically the points system is also designed to reinforce specific identified behaviours that will be ‘ learnt ’ and carried over into other ( school ) situations . |
| 15 | Alternatively the dynamic wealth terms may arise from either the absence of a full interdependent model which would permit disequilibrium in one asset to spill over into other assets or from some otherwise omitted dynamic effects arising from the use of a US wealth measure as a proxy for the true worldwide measure . |
| 16 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 17 | The medical model of militarized efficiency was carried over into key areas of civil society . |
| 18 | Division of women aged 35 years or over into 5-year age groups did not show any significant differences in mean profiles . |
| 19 | In 1943 , there were several arrivals from Scandinavia including Wilhelm Flehner , born in Vienna , who had escaped from Norway over into neutral Sweden . |
| 20 | Crystal has shown how this bias in linguistics carries over into lay views of language . |
| 21 | Normally , you will be able to agree to disagree when necessary , but if conflicting attitudes spill over into lasting antagonism , then you are heading for trouble . |
| 22 | We had examples of other parents won over into trusting school staff and giving truthful instead of cosmetic reasons for the child 's absence — but keeping the child off , nonetheless , for reasons peripheral to the child ( such as ‘ going with granny to collect her pension ’ ) . |
| 23 | While TNCs are not universally renowned for their commitment to feminist principles , there is a sense in which the generally more egalitarian employment practices of the United States and Europe spill over into developing countries through TNC direct investment . |
| 24 | Also encouraging has been the fact that a row with America over government procurement , which threatened to spill over into tit-for-tat sanctions , was averted at the last minute . |
| 25 | ‘ Most of the surfers here ignore all the big surfwear names that have crossed over into mainstream street fashion , ’ says Small . |
| 26 | Iraq , a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty , appears to have managed to divert nuclear materials to bomb-making despite regular safeguard inspections , but the treaty has been a success on the whole — as indeed has been the complex structure of hot-line , surveillance and negotiation which has ensured that the East-West ‘ balance of terror ’ never tipped over into nuclear war : |
| 27 | With a de Goth or Canteloupe as archbishop of Bordeaux , and an Armagnac as archbishop of Auch , the alliance of higher clergy and nobility was assured , although family feuds could always spill over into ecclesiastical politics . |
| 28 | He had enormous fluency and ease , often in High Church devotional poems in which the physical urgency of a boy in his teens spills over into sexual imagery in describing his love of Christ . |
| 29 | All that is learnt must be carried over into real-life situations , so training of parents is very important ( see section on ‘ Groups in the Institute ’ ) . |
| 30 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |