Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] over [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
| 2 | I have enjoyed reading all your letters and look forward to continuing the two-way communication that has developed over the past year . |
| 3 | In order to set the scene , figure 7.1 shows that average household size has fallen over the past century . |
| 4 | like on i well no , no , you have to , you the net has to fall over a certain part of the creature . |
| 5 | Banking profitability — not to mention a good many banks — has collapsed over the past decade . |
| 6 | More birds , more shufflings , more rings to slip over the pink-grey legs with their webbed feet . |
| 7 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 8 | The only way to move is by proving beyond all reasonable doubt that your home address has moved over a certain distance , and that the club you wish to join is considerably closer to your new address . |
| 9 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |
| 10 | Well , we will try again , and maybe if we do win the Rumbelows League Cup and finish third in Division Two , we might just get the same coverage overall as one man has had over the past weeks . |
| 11 | Yet opinion in Germany has shifted over the past year . |
| 12 | The birth rate in developed countries has slowed over the past decade , according to the US Demographic and Health Surveys ( DHS ) project , a huge study encompassing 25 developing countries and funded by the Agency for International Development . |
| 13 | His faction has triumphed over the reformist elements of Christian Democracy , headed by the ousted leader and premier , Ciriaco De Mita . |
| 14 | It ought to be possible to tell within the next few weeks whether the measures the government has introduced over the past year are delivering the hoped-for results . |
| 15 | Figure 18.4 shows , by means of five-year moving averages of deaths per million in England and Wales , how the disease has behaved over a long period in relation to other serious illnesses . |
| 16 | For instance , a great deal of development has occurred within enterprise zones , and the Urban programme has presided over a wide range of projects . |
| 17 | The Coulson Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry falls vacant on the retirement in September 1994 of Professor N.H. March , who has presided over a separate department . |
| 18 | In office , doffing his hat to ‘ fairness ’ , he has presided over a wild game of insults and shadow-boxing between Americans , Europeans and Japanese . |
| 19 | However , the most damning indictment of the Conservative government 's record in housing is that it has presided over a massive increase in homelessness . |
| 20 | This time , though , Ninagawa has brought over a Japanese classic . |
| 21 | A FURIOUS row has erupted over a Muslim leader 's call to lop off thieves ' hands . |
| 22 | Those who now complain that these approvals were given too quickly overlook the sense of crisis which the spread of AIDS has engendered over the past decade , not to mention the eagerness of all concerned to match the pathos of those infected with HIV with anything that might be an effective medicine . |
| 23 | Armed with the techniques he has learned over the past months , he is free to combine them in whatever way he thinks suits his stature . |
| 24 | If they wanted the Shah to stay they would already have told him to order the Army to destroy the revolution , not just peck at it , Instead , president Carter has sent over a senior US general , Robert E. Huyserl , to keep the army quiet . |
| 25 | Even at the primary stage , it has been shown that children can often grasp that a country house contains material that has accumulated over a long period . |
| 26 | The most important of these controversies has arisen over the theological nature of the established state church , and in particular over the prevalence and popularity of the doctrine of predestination — the belief that humankind is divided into immutable groups of the saved and the damned , and that an individual 's salvation depends not on his or her actions while on earth , but rather on a predetermined and arbitrary decision by God ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 27 | was put forward by his coach in recognition of the success he has achieved over the past year . |
| 28 | But what I am saying in context , no this has a deal to do with the co boundaries , as you know erm the honourable member well knows , the essence of this this is wholly inappropriate in terms of erm trying to latest citizenship through an arrangement of six additional boundaries into a erm union and a political state and I think that that is the profound objection that this side of the house has expressed over a long period of time now , is a reflection of the public mood in the country in respect of this election and the way the boundaries er are are erm apportioned and all I say in conclusion is that this is an evidence further of the irrelevance of this house in reflecting and attesting to public opinion outside . |
| 29 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 30 | Magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) has evolved over the past decade as an important new technique , providing in some circumstances , unique , and in others , additional , information to that obtained with standard investigations . |