Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] over the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 2 | These honours subjects range over the whole field of legal interest . |
| 3 | LMS delegates to schools control over the major part of their budgets . |
| 4 | The old Gymnasium could then become additional space for Art , while Geography took over the old Library . |
| 5 | Gerhard Schürer 's post as Chair of the State Planning Commission was abolished and Grünheid took over the new position of Chair of the Economic Committee . |
| 6 | The Macedonian Assembly elected on March 20 a new government led by Nikola Kljusev , while Blaze Ristovski , Jovan Andonov and Bekir Zuta were elected as Deputy Premiers , Risto Damjanovski became Minister of Defence , and Jordan Mjalkov took over the Interior Ministry . |
| 7 | But would the United States go over the nuclear brink to save Britain , France , Germany or any other NATO member from a conventional attack ? |
| 8 | For conservatives , this policy is part of a trend to encourage private initiatives and voluntary organizations to take over the traditional government role in the health services ( SCF , op. cit . ) . |
| 9 | The Dalek ship is programmed to return to Kembel in spite of all their efforts to divert it , and it falls to Steven to hand over the fake core to the Daleks once the Doctor and Sara are aboard the TARDIS . |
| 10 | At that point , the court ordered Koons to hand over the fourth sculpture , which he had kept for himself . |
| 11 | These projects range over the entire field of the life of the Church : the establishment of new dioceses ; the training of catechists , lay leaders , nuns , priests ; the building of churches , parochial centres , school centres ; preaching the Gospel by press , television and radio ; hospitals , clinics , leprosaria , disaster relief , medicines , transport and other miscellaneous works . |
| 12 | Thus , whilst Wallis and Gusfield disagree over the likely causes of resentment , both appear to be identifying ‘ status groups ’ as central to moral campaigns . |
| 13 | Composed of military commanders , political officers and Party officials , their concerns range over the entire panoply of administrative and disciplinary functions , as well as troop control and civil-military relations in the USSR 's 16 Military Districts . |
| 14 | Establish the Barril Measure over the whole Island of Islay . " |
| 15 | The house in Denbigh Terrace , which was his home during and after his marriage to Kristen Tomassi , had been progressively colonised by the office ; Nik Powell took over the first floor ; board meetings were conducted in the lounge ; paperwork spilled into the bedrooms . |
| 16 | The former Soviet republics of Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Turkmenistan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan and Ukraine were admitted as new members on Jan. 30 , with Russia taking over the Soviet Union 's seat , bringing the total number of CSCE members to 48 . |
| 17 | The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration , previously held by Tove Strand Gerhardsen , was split into two , with Gunnar Berge taking over the new Ministry of Local Government and Labour and Oddny Alexandersen the Ministry of Government Administration . |
| 18 | Similar concerns exist over the regulatory systems of control for financial services . |
| 19 | The trio is completed by Dick Vance , the computer ‘ driver ’ , though his activities extend over the whole breadth of keeping the flight data read-out units in working order and developing the programs and electronics generally . |
| 20 | But as Ryan Cosgrove handed over the oblong box , a red light flashed and it started ticking . |
| 21 | With the soaring call for its services — when the UN takes over the Somali operation on May 4th the number of peacekeepers in the field will increase from around 60,000 to nearly 90,000 — the organisation can no longer rely on the old faithfuls : countries that , either from idealism ( Canada and Scandinavia , for instance ) or from poverty ( Fiji , Nepal and many others ) , were glad to provide troops . |
| 22 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |
| 23 | After dinner , the hotel cabaret and band take over the easy task of keeping you happy . |
| 24 | Everywhere the willow grows and dragonflies hover over the wide ditches or rhymes . |
| 25 | Perhaps even more importantly , the British government as now completing its announced intention to withdrew its troops from " east of Suez " and , together with the Americans , had quietly been encouragingly the Shah to take over the British role as the " Policeman of the Gulf . " |
| 26 | Bourgeois ideology takes over the legitimizing functions of traditional society and thereby keeps power relations inaccessible to analysis and public consciousness . |
| 27 | COME 1 JANUARY , THE MAN WHO turned GM Europe into a profitable operation and fathered winners such as the Calibra takes over the top spot at Chrysler . |
| 28 | Two key questions remain over the entire affair . |
| 29 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 30 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |