Example sentences of "which [vb base] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cloud-cover problems will diminish the number of useful images from the 20–22 per year that are theoretically possible , but even so the monitoring of surface phenomena that change during the year ( such as agricultural crops and natural vegetation ) or which change over the years ( for example the extent of the built-up areas of cities or the extent of forest cover ) is possible . |
| 2 | Even the two towers , which peer over the roofs that block their view , are camouflaged by scaffolding . |
| 3 | This goes to show that alliances formed in the conflict over recreation and access to the countryside are by no means the same as those which coalesce over issues of wildlife preservation and landscape change . |
| 4 | RIGHT Although head collars which attach over the dog 's nostrils are now widely-available in place of a neck collar and leash , they are not recommended for short-faced breeds such as the bulldog , as shown here . |
| 5 | The US is worried about the costs of running its five weather satellites , two of which travel over the poles . |
| 6 | The world relies for much of its weather data on a network of satellites , which are either stationed in a fixed position above the equator or which travel over the poles to scan the globe . |
| 7 | Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik . |
| 8 | UK Cobol house MicroFocus , Newbury , Berkshire , is teaming with US firm Creative Systems Interfaces Inc to develop a range of communications software : initially MicroFocus will market , under its own name , CSI 's programme-to-programme connectivity packages which run over multiple hardware and software platforms including Windows , AS/400 , MS-DOS ( client ) , OS/2 , AIX and MVS . |
| 9 | Surely both vase-paintings and metopes ( which run over the middle and later decades of the century ) owe much to great wall-paintings in Corinth . |
| 10 | To hire a car would be a mistake if you want to enjoy the White Mountains , which extend over the western end of the island , from immediately behind Chania and the north coast road to the edge of the south coast . |
| 11 | From the slit along the bottom , it protrudes not only its foot but two sections of its mantle which extend over each flank of the shell and meet at the top . |
| 12 | It was n't weather for sitting in the garden , but we are fortunate in having windows which look over our own small front garden , and because there is no hedge , beyond to the road . |
| 13 | They are marginally larger and instead of the pale yellow head-plumes are adorned with bright golden-yellow plumes which meet over the forehead . |
| 14 | Where the question of ideology is paramount , the concern is with the manner in which control over cultural forms is used to suppress contradictions or conflicts ( Larrain 1982 : 15 ) . |
| 15 | As I 'm sure you know , your angina pain is caused by a ‘ silting-up ’ of the coronary arteries which flow over your heart , supplying it with vital oxygen and nutrients . |
| 16 | This is passed on to a set of inference rules cast in an appropriate non-monotonic logic which operate over the knowledge base to determine an appropriately helpful answer . |
| 17 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 18 | In Britain , however , because of ministerial responsibility and because of the suspicion that the appropriate ministry could do the job much better than a new , inexperienced board ( which usually has a lower calibre of staff ) , the ministries concerned have their own sections on tourism , forestry and the countryside which go over everything the board in question proposes , giving authorizations , suggestions or exercising a veto . |
| 19 | For insects such as locusts , which migrate over vast distances , it is even more important to fly at an economical speed . |
| 20 | Mass strandings usually involve whales which migrate over long distances . |
| 21 | A suitable satellite image is classified using image-processing techniques to identify the various types of land cover which exist over the entire study area at very fine spatial resolution . |
| 22 | The original Strasbourg clock probably contained , besides moving figures , an annual-calendar dial , and possibly a lunar dial and an astrolabe , but the instrument designed by Giovanni de' Dondi incorporated a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts , both fixed and movable , and also indicated the celestial motions of the sun , moon , and planets , including even the motions of the nodes of the moon 's orbit , which take over eighteen years to make a complete revolution around the ecliptic . |
| 23 | That power enables the Secretary of State to intervene in the private sector and , in a sense , to discriminate against one particular group of private sector companies those which take over one of the STG subsidiaries . |
| 24 | The commission is advised by the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee and the Historic Buildings Advisory Councils which take over the role previously exercised by the Ancient Monuments Board for England and the Historic Buildings Council for England . |
| 25 | Some of these will remain to watch over the living ; others enter the bodies of white birds , such as the sulphur-crested cockatoos or white egrets which hover over the Toraja rice-paddies . |
| 26 | But Leonskaja 's big technique serves her well in the Scherzo and finale , which come over with more spontaneity , and , in the finale , there is a pleasing warmth in the lyrical second melody at 1′20″ . |
| 27 | The Marking Kit comes in the form of seven transparent overlays which slide over the test papers and allow the markers to see the right and wrong answers at a glance . |
| 28 | Wires are colour coded and have labelled fitted plugs which slide over libelled pins on the motherboard . |
| 29 | Today 's universe contains four observable forces — the electromagnetic and gravitational ones , which work over long ranges , and the weak and strong nuclear ones , which work only locally . |
| 30 | These nine cases , which comprise over one-half of the press coverage of court cases of rape during the year , cover a multitude of situations . |