Example sentences of "[vb base] over [art] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to move on silently escaping , but I crash straight into a trolley , pushed by a bloke looking like one of the heavyweights in a James Bond film , so I leap away at speed as he snarls after me and knock over a pile of bean tins . |
| 2 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 3 | Doubts remain over the fitness of striker Ian Baird and midfielder Derek Ferguson , both of whom are suffering from hamstring injuries . |
| 4 | Third , " consumers " — that is , patients , their families , potential patients — have traditionally had least influence over the kind of service they receive . |
| 5 | Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time . |
| 6 | He conducted research into how artefacts gradually develop over a period of time , the study of which is known as typology . |
| 7 | Ellen had retired from the Christabel Focus over a question of principle . |
| 8 | It lit up the night sky above the East End of Glasgow like a burning city that was never consumed , every night flaring up again and again with a distant tumult of mountains of slag and iron , drinking the cold air and casting their baleful glow on the clouds that spread over the Valley of Pandemonium . |
| 9 | In 1979 there were 3,080 barristers practising in central London and 1,283 spread over the rest of england and Wales ; considering that most courts are now decentralised , this certainly seems to indicate an imbalance . |
| 10 | As the patrol , now unloaded and debriefed , relax over a mug of tea and a cigarette , the depot slowly comes back to life around them . |
| 11 | Funnel crushed food into the tea strainer and shake over a piece of paper |
| 12 | I nearly tip over a bucket of water , in which Lucker 's vodka is tucked up . |
| 13 | Its fifty-three recommendations included the extension and enforcement of state regulation of environmental health conditions such as overcrowding , smoke pollution , provision of open spaces , control over the distribution of food and the handling of milk ; work conditions should be improved , over-fatigue prevented ; mothers should be taught proper childcare and girls instructed in cookery and dietetics ; adult drinking and juvenile smoking should be curbed ; the state should encourage physical training and exercise ; there should be an adequate system of school medical inspection and a state-sponsored system of school feeding . |
| 14 | Control over the distribution of cocaine has been settled in the hillside slum communities . |
| 15 | Control over the quality of work within each classroom has until now been left almost exclusively to the headteacher with occasional support from the local and national inspectorate . |
| 16 | Control over the effectiveness of government activities involves the fulfilment of political goals by effective administration . |
| 17 | Clinical practice and public health often differ over the rationing of health care . |
| 18 | Motor vehicles spew over a ton of lead into the atmosphere of Bangkok every day . |
| 19 | And as orchestras , even good ones , always Make mistakes in the same places , you carry over a lot of experience . |
| 20 | Somalia , July 1992 ; children fight over a bag of rice , the loser 's left to lick what 's left off his shirt , while 2 others pick scraps from the ground . |
| 21 | Many practitioners of orthodox medicine boggle over the accuracy of reflexology 's diagnoses . |
| 22 | Throw over a covering of compost , peat , leaves or newspaper , wrap with sacking or cartons , and hardy plants will then be happy enough , for a few weeks if need be . |
| 23 | Most solids have sharp melting points although some , such as glasses , soften over a range of temperature . |