Example sentences of "[verb] over from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the 40th session of the UNHCR Executive Committee in October 1989 the 43 member states adopted a general programme budget of $190,000,000 for the first six months of 1990 only ; after extensive debate at an extraordinary session in May 1990 and at the regular session in October , the Executive Committee finally adopted a general programme budget for 1990 amounting to $378,885,900 , including the $38,000,000 deficit carried over from the previous year . |
| 2 | They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process . |
| 3 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 4 | Ideally the Civic Society would like to see far more drastic policy change , possibly thinking in terms of forty hectares but we realize the minimum possible would be the thirty point five hectares which is hanging over from the first phase of the structure plan , and so that must of course be regarded as committed . |
| 5 | The first time I get on , it is often after spending a few hours with them , and I kinda transfer over from the stable door to their backs . ’ |
| 6 | A dedication to career goals of autonomy or power or recognition ( or some combination of these ) takes over from the parental concern for comfort , structure and relationships . |
| 7 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 8 | It is the day when Jean Fabre , the president-in-waiting , takes over from the long-serving incumbent Albert Ferrasse . |
| 9 | There it will take over from the defective gene and form the right combination to allow fluids to leave the cells normally instead of collecting into a mucous . |
| 10 | Langdon went on to outline a scheme whereby Kim Ku could set up a governing commission , which would subsequently take over from the military government . |
| 11 | Ridden by Peter Scudamore , Nigel Twiston-Davies 's seven-year-old took over from the ill-fated Combermere at the 13th of the 27 fences and , staying on strongly approaching the last , drew clear of the top-weight Dalkey Sound to record an impressive eight-length victory . |
| 12 | The SPA unanimously elected Kaysone Phomvihane , as the country 's new President , replacing Phoumi Vongvichit , who had served as President in an acting capacity since 1986 when he effectively took over from the ailing Souphanouvong [ see p. 35005 ] . |
| 13 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 14 | The Presidents of Yugoslavia 's six constituent republics took over from the federal presidency the principal role in negotiating Yugoslavia 's future when they began on March 28 a series of weekly summit meetings . |
| 15 | An American military advisory group should be established formally , taking over from the provisional group already in existence . |
| 16 | For two days after their conversation Ruth did not see the woman , and then on the third day a man leaned over from the upper deck and called out to her . |
| 17 | Or Jagger would come over from the next hotel and we 'd have late night ‘ looning ’ sessions , and then Angie and I would go off again with Zowie . |
| 18 | Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers . |
| 19 | It is still there , and , periodically , repressed material returns to set problems for man which remain unresolved , left over from the first parricide . |
| 20 | It smelled damp , and there was the hint of wood smoke , left over from the illegal fire that Charlie had burned in the open grate . |
| 21 | ‘ We need to face the frustrations left over from the second world war ’ , he says . |
| 22 | Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War . |
| 23 | The only possible explanation of this radiation , which corresponds to a temperature of about 3K ( 3 C° above the absolute zero of cold ) , seemed to be that it represented the residual energy left over from the Big Bang . |
| 24 | It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means . |
| 25 | He stared steadily outwards towards the ducks and flamingos while Kraal mantled his plumage , let out a harsh call or two and dropped down into the shelter to pick at the remnant of meat he had left over from the previous day . |
| 26 | The museum is also one of the few that is equipped with a full-sized turntable , a left over from the original steam shed on the same site , which is complete and in full working order . |
| 27 | sales that were left over from the open show , three pound thirty fourteen pound ten for the collection , now that is as you see , that is over from last year last year the table show so we actually have double the number of entries on the bench this year which is a healthy sign |
| 28 | The chemicals , including substances such as DDT , long banned in the rest of Germany , as well as formulations never subject to safety testing in the West , are left over from the pre-unification production of East German industries . |
| 29 | The VPE , headed by Solange Fernex , also wants the funds left over from the Presidential campaign of Bruce Lalonde , one of the AT 's leading lights , to go into a common kitty , rather than being set aside for a future bid for power by Lalonde — perhaps in the European parliament elections in 1984 . |
| 30 | In practice , however , export-led growth in Europe is likely to be overwhelmed by problems left over from the late-1980s boom — especially the sharp rise in public-sector deficits between 1989 and 1993 ( chart 2 ) . |