Example sentences of "[vb -s] over [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Man stands over against the awful otherness of God , by which his own existence is challenged , questioned and judged ; but in faith he finds the power nonetheless to live in that encounter with God by which each present moment becomes a meeting with eternity .
2 Once or twice a week Howard climbs into the station wagon and drives over to the little market town fifteen miles away .
3 ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop .
4 The occasional use of such activism shades over into the regular use , the planned use , to the covert institutionalisation of extralegal power .
5 The final axe is expected to come after Birt takes over as the new director general in March .
6 Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest .
7 A dedication to career goals of autonomy or power or recognition ( or some combination of these ) takes over from the parental concern for comfort , structure and relationships .
8 Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island .
9 It is the day when Jean Fabre , the president-in-waiting , takes over from the long-serving incumbent Albert Ferrasse .
10 It is the symbolic violence of the teenager on the terraces , which spills over into the odd affray with visiting gangs that is more typical than the premeditated violence of disturbed or habitually aggressive individuals , who see football as a kind of arena for serious assault with little risk of arrest .
11 This result spills over onto the optimal output decision : since one can expect better sales prices with a higher σ or a lower k , one should accordingly produce more output with a higher σ or lower k .
12 That done , he leans over to the other side and does the same thing with his other hand and foot so that both his palms and his soles are anointed with his pungent urine .
13 Using Kirchhoff 's current law at the noninverting input of this trigger gives so that Hence the output switches over to the opposite saturation state from positive and negative saturation when respectively It is said that the circuit acts as a discriminator .
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