Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] over " in BNC.

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1 In practice this often meant that immature minds would take over Leavis 's own evaluations without relating them to their own experience of literature , resulting in the diffusion of callow or inept judgements that has been condemned from the right by C. S. Lewis and from the left by Catherine Belsey .
2 RECYCLED PAPER It is estimated that certain plastics will take over 400 years to disintegrate , so that is why we are introducing more recyclable plastic , which can be melted down and re-used .
3 Usually there will be some redundancy in the system so that other mechanisms can take over .
4 Following the Health and Safety ( Emissions into the Atmosphere ) Regulations 1983 , referred to earlier it is expected that local authorities will take over the responsibility for prosecuting persons for such offences , as Regulation 7 repeals s.78(3) of the 1974 Act which had required proceedings to be instituted by an inspector appointed under s. 19 of the Health and Safety at Work , etc .
5 The accompaniment must paint the general background mood of the piece , and rhythmic designs can persist over big areas and only break off if there is a very definite change of mood or subject matter .
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