Example sentences of "[vb base] over the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A crisis may won develop over the late arrival of the board 's evidence on the manufacture of the pressure vessel , which will house the reactor core . |
| 2 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |
| 3 | So the quickest way to get to the woods , if you were part of the Martin household , was to enter the orchard farthest from the house and climb over the vine-clad wall at its end . |
| 4 | Spread over the sliced orange in the cake tin . |
| 5 | These projects range over the entire field of the life of the Church : the establishment of new dioceses ; the training of catechists , lay leaders , nuns , priests ; the building of churches , parochial centres , school centres ; preaching the Gospel by press , television and radio ; hospitals , clinics , leprosaria , disaster relief , medicines , transport and other miscellaneous works . |
| 6 | Composed of military commanders , political officers and Party officials , their concerns range over the entire panoply of administrative and disciplinary functions , as well as troop control and civil-military relations in the USSR 's 16 Military Districts . |
| 7 | These honours subjects range over the whole field of legal interest . |
| 8 | The other two windows look over the thatched roof of the kitchen hut to a stand of eucalyptus trees , the waters of the lake and the mainland peninsula of Capachica . |
| 9 | To hire a car would be a mistake if you want to enjoy the White Mountains , which extend over the western end of the island , from immediately behind Chania and the north coast road to the edge of the south coast . |
| 10 | The trio is completed by Dick Vance , the computer ‘ driver ’ , though his activities extend over the whole breadth of keeping the flight data read-out units in working order and developing the programs and electronics generally . |
| 11 | ‘ There was no Albert Bridge then , ’ recalled Ben Bellaser , ‘ to span the river and ride over the ancient town with its oppressive grandeur , and the moon was rising and lighting up the shore and houses as they rose one over the other in terrace fashion against the dark blue starry sky ’ . |
| 12 | As we leave the womb , enter the world and grow , and get over the initial wonder of walking , we change our pre-natal wheelchair for a series of substitute wheelchairs — bicycles , motor-cycles , cars , taxis , buses , trains , aeroplanes — and chairs ( in houses , schools , offices ; anywhere where people gather and sit ) . |
| 13 | Unwrap the Jolly Roger from its cling film and drape over the other corner of the chest . |
| 14 | Eight students and four staff from Knowsley Community College in Huyton will travel to Greece by minibus and then drive over the Albanian border in two old ambulances packed with hospital equipment . |
| 15 | LMS delegates to schools control over the major part of their budgets . |
| 16 | Control over the full range from thunderous chords to glittering passage work to a mere whisper of a pianissimo was total . |
| 17 | Establish the Barril Measure over the whole Island of Islay . " |
| 18 | ‘ Thought it might be as good a time as any to chew the fat , talk over the current status of Cuckoo , ’ Hayman started , casually enough . |
| 19 | Denise and Ralph Bulger talk frankly about the joy they feel over the new baby in a magazine article published tomorrow . |
| 20 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | Yet there remained a fierce energy in her , which allowed her , now , her time growing near , to walk the miles from Islington , stride over the rough grass at last with increasing ease . |
| 22 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 23 | Lizaveta once mended his clothes : when we puzzle over the chance-induced actuality of her murder being so largely left to speak for itself we are creating a false problem by the inertness of our own metaphor . |
| 24 | After dinner , the hotel cabaret and band take over the easy task of keeping you happy . |
| 25 | Havant take over the daunting task of challenging for the European Cup in Amsterdam , with Hounslow moving to the south of Holland to compete at Vught where a favourable draw puts them among the favourites to reach Monday 's final . |
| 26 | He realised first that a muon in the vicinity of a hydrogen atom would orbit 207 times nearer to the central nucleus than would the electron , and so the muon would get inside the electron 's orbit and take over the electrical attraction of the proton ; it is an atomic ‘ excuse me ’ dance routine . |
| 27 | On Friday 2nd April at Lansdowne Football Club , Lansdowne Road , they take the wraps off the music of the night — and take over the entire Club in the process ! . |
| 28 | Airflow over the upper surface at the centre section where the chord is broadest has been improved by open mesh close to the leading edge spar . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've seen Jay tongue out figs in the most suggestive manner , and positively drool over the sweet flesh of a mango . |
| 30 | Though Reagan and Congress may disagree over the amount of money that government should spend , alarm over the present state of US science education is general . |