Example sentences of "[verb] over the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 2 | I 'm going to have to fly to either Chad or Niger and slip over the border by car . |
| 3 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 4 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 5 | Doubts remain over the fitness of striker Ian Baird and midfielder Derek Ferguson , both of whom are suffering from hamstring injuries . |
| 6 | Third , " consumers " — that is , patients , their families , potential patients — have traditionally had least influence over the kind of service they receive . |
| 7 | Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time . |
| 8 | It lit up the night sky above the East End of Glasgow like a burning city that was never consumed , every night flaring up again and again with a distant tumult of mountains of slag and iron , drinking the cold air and casting their baleful glow on the clouds that spread over the Valley of Pandemonium . |
| 9 | In 1979 there were 3,080 barristers practising in central London and 1,283 spread over the rest of england and Wales ; considering that most courts are now decentralised , this certainly seems to indicate an imbalance . |
| 10 | The fact that John had handed over the reins of power to Miss Doris and Mr Smith seemed a great honour but his stipulation that they should keep and maintain the name and reputation of the business so long as it was possible to do so proved a massive task for them in later years . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd better go and look over the script before dinner , ’ she told him without meeting his eyes . |
| 12 | Nigel and Shirley handed over the cheque to matron Ann Teaney . |
| 13 | English Estates area manager Peter Watson handed over the donation to museum curator Hilary Wade . |
| 14 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 15 | It may just be that Clinton is taking advantage of the transition period until he takes over the Presidency to air some personal prejudices and satisfy the grievances of some of his supporters . |
| 16 | Feminist cognitive theories also pass over the aspects of subjectivity , particularly female subjectivity , which mainstream cognitivism declares irrational , and outside its boundaries . |
| 17 | While some paint packages provide fairly crude brushstyles , Fractal Design Painter lets you go into far greater detail ; it gives you more control over the effects of pen or brush and you can create and record your own styles . |
| 18 | Assuming that the government of the day has a comfortable majority in the House of Commons , executive dominance over the legislature and control over the processes of decision making becomes possible . |
| 19 | We will give users control over the options for care and provide services in a way which guarantees individuals maximum independence while retaining existing community links . |
| 20 | Such a correspondence would ensure that no political party exercises undue influence and control over the means of communication or that the means of communication do not overwhelmingly support one political party . |
| 21 | In short , rapid population growth was a result of poverty and this asked fundamental questions about access and control over the means of production as well as the technical means by which they were developed . |
| 22 | Its fifty-three recommendations included the extension and enforcement of state regulation of environmental health conditions such as overcrowding , smoke pollution , provision of open spaces , control over the distribution of food and the handling of milk ; work conditions should be improved , over-fatigue prevented ; mothers should be taught proper childcare and girls instructed in cookery and dietetics ; adult drinking and juvenile smoking should be curbed ; the state should encourage physical training and exercise ; there should be an adequate system of school medical inspection and a state-sponsored system of school feeding . |
| 23 | Control over the distribution of cocaine has been settled in the hillside slum communities . |
| 24 | Control over the quality of work within each classroom has until now been left almost exclusively to the headteacher with occasional support from the local and national inspectorate . |
| 25 | Control over the effectiveness of government activities involves the fulfilment of political goals by effective administration . |
| 26 | Among the presidential powers was the appointment of the Prime Minister , the president and members of the Supreme Court , the prosecutor general , the Speaker of the National Assemby and the president of the Senate , who would take over the functions of President in the event of the post suddenly being vacated . |
| 27 | As TECs develop , they will take over the provision of Youth Training . |
| 28 | I says , I 'll go next week This was after three weeks , I says , I 'll go on next week and I 'll take over the job of yard foreman , and I 'll do it the way I want it done , not the way that . |
| 29 | Cheap and accessible computer packages have unburdened the splitters of much donkey work ; the computer can take over the job of interpretation too . |
| 30 | Ceramic materials may take over the role of cobalt in magnets , a move stimulated by the political upheavals in Zaire in 1978 , which forced up the price of the metal and made many manufacturers look for substitutes . |