Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The Board took over the legal aid scheme 's administrative structure and most of the staff . |
2 | COME 1 JANUARY , THE MAN WHO turned GM Europe into a profitable operation and fathered winners such as the Calibra takes over the top spot at Chrysler . |
3 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
4 | Alistair MacDonald , the director , has seen the play germinate over the last 18 months from roots in the Gaelic Youth Theatre summer school in 1991 and an experimental workshop production at the Mod Fringe in Dingwall the same year . |
5 | Swales , the target for much of the fans anger over the past few weeks , is likely to resist Lee 's offer . |
6 | Establish the Barril Measure over the whole Island of Islay . " |
7 | Perhaps even more importantly , the British government as now completing its announced intention to withdrew its troops from " east of Suez " and , together with the Americans , had quietly been encouragingly the Shah to take over the British role as the " Policeman of the Gulf . " |
8 | With the soaring call for its services — when the UN takes over the Somali operation on May 4th the number of peacekeepers in the field will increase from around 60,000 to nearly 90,000 — the organisation can no longer rely on the old faithfuls : countries that , either from idealism ( Canada and Scandinavia , for instance ) or from poverty ( Fiji , Nepal and many others ) , were glad to provide troops . |
9 | Active code page not available from CON device as long as you have a standard UK keyboard , with the pounds sign over the 3 key , then ‘ Current Keyboard code : UK ’ is what you are looking for . |
10 | This is , of course , a time of smokescreens so far as the Masters is concerned and to hear some of the Europeans talk over the last few days , they appear to be in need of the psychiatrist 's couch as much as anything . |
11 | Thus , where the subsidy solution is adopted there is a pressure for the government to take over the entire running of the industry so that all operations can be carefully monitored . |
12 | And it is my responsibility to make sure the players concentrate over the entire 90 minutes and are not looking towards the next match . |
13 | The favoured solution , the nationalization of the arms firms , was generally presented as an anti-monopoly measure quite acceptable to liberals , not as ( what actually it would have been ) the state taking over the commanding heights of the economy . |
14 | Its attempts to strangle the revolutionary movement at birth during May 1968 were consistent with the approach taken over the previous 30 years , including the immediate postwar period ( part I ) . |
15 | Birmingham 's Snow Hill station closed after the LMR took over the old Great Western 's lines . |
16 | Soon after the company was established , the trio took over the run-down Bertram House Hotel in Harthill . |
17 | From 1466 the company took over the financial management of the garrison , with the mayor of the Staple becoming de facto royal treasurer of the town . |
18 | When the trust took over the four-storey building in 1987 it was virtually derelict . |
19 | By degrees , the middle-class took over the political parties . ’ |
20 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
21 | Closed doors stopped the fire taking over the whole building in Borough Road . |
22 | He had no desire to take over the first place . |
23 | Since BAe seems to be a front-runner to take over the ailing Ferranti group , Professor Smith may have a hand in self-fulfilment of his prophecy . |
24 | Two days later , on 13 May , shortly before a Christian democrat by the name of Pierre Pflimlin made yet another attempt — as it turned out , successful — to win a vote of confidence in the National Assembly in Paris , a crowd took over the main government building in Algiers . |
25 | Sally Gunnell 's women 's team includes 18year-old debutante Katharine Merry , who earned her place with a 200m win over the Olympic champion yesterday , as well as Scotland 's big two Yvonne Murray ( 3,000m ) and Liz McColgan ( 10,000m ) . |
26 | It was a triumph that also set up the Kiwis nicely for a surprise win over the seventh-seeded Italians . |
27 | Earlier , all three countries dismissed an offer to hand over the two men to Malta . |