Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 2 | Nikos 's mind began automatically to turn over the possibilities ; as it always did . |
| 3 | They argued that a new racism based on arguments about cultural difference had largely taken over the arenas of public debate . |
| 4 | By January , the navy had already taken over the oil fields from striking oil workers and was producing just under a third of normal output , . |
| 5 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 6 | Since the Russian Revolution did not spread to the West , Communists became prisoners of a state with pretensions to a universal mission , and their identification with the foreign policy needs of the Soviet Union represented little advance over the subordination of an older generation of radicals to the interests of the City of London . |
| 7 | ‘ In a society where the image has virtually taken over every aspect of life , people are tired of having someone else decide what it is they will see . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , there is a clearly definable move , even in 11–18 schools , to provide the sixth form with its own base — and its own rules — often markedly different from the remainder of the school and in many 11–16 schools , the fifth form have successfully taken over the duties and responsibilities traditionally given to sixth formers , |