Example sentences of "[vb base] over the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm going to have to fly to either Chad or Niger and slip over the border by car .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Doubts remain over the fitness of striker Ian Baird and midfielder Derek Ferguson , both of whom are suffering from hamstring injuries .
5 Third , " consumers " — that is , patients , their families , potential patients — have traditionally had least influence over the kind of service they receive .
6 Thus there is no net loss or gain over the period of time .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Control over the distribution of cocaine has been settled in the hillside slum communities .
11 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 .
12 Control over the effectiveness of government activities involves the fulfilment of political goals by effective administration .
13 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
14 Clinical practice and public health often differ over the rationing of health care .
15 My best bet would probably be to fly into one of the neighbouring states and sneak over the border at night .
16 Many practitioners of orthodox medicine boggle over the accuracy of reflexology 's diagnoses .
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