Example sentences of "[vb base] over [art] [noun sg] [prep] [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 | I 'm going to have to fly to either Chad or Niger and slip over the border by car . |
| 3 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Doubts remain over the fitness of striker Ian Baird and midfielder Derek Ferguson , both of whom are suffering from hamstring injuries . |
| 6 | Third , " consumers " — that is , patients , their families , potential patients — have traditionally had least influence over the kind of service they receive . |
| 7 | Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time . |
| 8 | He conducted research into how artefacts gradually develop over a period of time , the study of which is known as typology . |
| 9 | Ellen had retired from the Christabel Focus over a question of principle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Funnel crushed food into the tea strainer and shake over a piece of paper |
| 14 | Fewer than one in 100 patients wait over a year for treatment 25 times better than Northern Ireland , where the figure is one in five . |
| 15 | I nearly tip over a bucket of water , in which Lucker 's vodka is tucked up . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Control over the distribution of cocaine has been settled in the hillside slum communities . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Control over the effectiveness of government activities involves the fulfilment of political goals by effective administration . |
| 20 | turn over the page to page six paragraph eight , item D eight D strategy , the figure 's is a hundred and six and it should be one , five , six |
| 21 | Clinical practice and public health often differ over the rationing of health care . |
| 22 | Motor vehicles spew over a ton of lead into the atmosphere of Bangkok every day . |
| 23 | And as orchestras , even good ones , always Make mistakes in the same places , you carry over a lot of experience . |
| 24 | My best bet would probably be to fly into one of the neighbouring states and sneak over the border at night . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Many practitioners of orthodox medicine boggle over the accuracy of reflexology 's diagnoses . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Most solids have sharp melting points although some , such as glasses , soften over a range of temperature . |