Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] over the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The display we 've seen over the last night would have been quite average for Scotland and Northern Ireland but this far south in Oxford it was quite spectacular . |
| 2 | ONCE YOU 'VE got over the severe attack of ‘ Ooer ’ s which this band 's rather indecent euphemistic name inevitably provokes , Joni 's Butterfly reveal themselves ( sorry ) as perfectly innocent pop fun for all the family , with a lyrical undercurrent of sex , drugs , avarice and Satanic goat-molesting . |
| 3 | Is this a *true* reflection of the quality of football we 've played over the first couple of months … and are we likely to break Cov 's unbeaten run ? |
| 4 | Use our Best Buys tables , starting on page 150 , to compare the products we 've reviewed over the past year . |
| 5 | Use our Best Buys tables , starting on page 150 , to compare the products we 've reviewed over the past year . |
| 6 | Another thirty Health and Safety proposals are on the way such as that on working time in the news last week and another to restore the protection for young people at work which we 've lost over the last decade , and just as important the union has just n not just reacting to what 's coming out of Brussels , it 's actually helping set the agenda . |
| 7 | My earlier assertion that Hunslet would be leaving at the end of the season , now appears to have been a figment of my imagination , and from what i 've read over the last couple of days Leeds appear to be up ‘ shit creek ’ . |
| 8 | I 've changed over the last couple of years . |
| 9 | There is no better example of the logical and ideological confusions into which we have fallen over the charging issue than in pre-school provision . |
| 10 | What we have witnessed over the past decade is the emergence of a whole host of competing and conflicting forms of local politics — different places have begun , in political terms , to behave very differently and British politics is now characterized by diversity rather than homogeneity . |
| 11 | Standards have gone up consistently over the six years of the league and , although still dominated by a new wave of running clubs that have burgeoned over the last decade , more and more of the traditional athletics clubs have been paying more attention to the competition . |
| 12 | As a result , however , of the market conditions that have applied over the past year the 12 month period of grace has in some cases proved insufficient . |
| 13 | While male activity rates have fallen steadily from 58.1 per cent in 1970 to 55.6 per cent in 1986 , female activity rates have risen over the same period from 26.6 per cent to 32.5 per cent . |
| 14 | I heard that that er er er parts of the rest of the U K property prices have risen over the last year , er but ours have actually not risen at all . |
| 15 | Well , Jenny , now we have got over the initial emotionalism of our reunion , perhaps one or two points might be clarified for me . |
| 16 | Not a single foreigner who attended the opening ceremonies , not one of the travellers from France , England , Italy , and Russia , who have journeyed over the half-finished line , went away without purchasing some silks , embroideries , metal-work , arms , or knives . |
| 17 | Ford 's employees are also wont to point out that their mortgage payments have rocketed over the past year and negotiations will take place against a background in which interest rates seem to be moving in one direction only . |
| 18 | Four men have presided over the Fifth Republic created in 1958 : its founder , Charles de Gaulle ( born 1890 , President 1958 — 69 ) ; Georges Pompidou ( 1911 ; 1969–74 ) ; Valery Giscard d'Estaing ( 1926 ; 1974–8 1 ) ; Francois Mitterrand ( 1916 ; 1981- ) . |
| 19 | The Minister of State turns away , but she and the Home Secretary have presided over the worst crime figures that the country has ever known . |
| 20 | His successors , who have presided over the past year 's changes , hoped they too could massage their way to keeping power . |
| 21 | If anything , the Windsor Park attendance figures have increased over the past year . |
| 22 | With the widening of the income range between social groups since the late 1970s and the government 's emphasis on restricting public spending and encouraging privatization , there are signs that these geographical differences have widened over the past decade ( see Bradford and Burdett ( 1989 ) and Curtis and Mohan ( 1989 ) for reviews ) . |
| 23 | THE EXCITING new astronomical knowledge we have gained over the past decade has come largely from satellites . |
| 24 | But , as they have discovered over the past year , tied agents can be expensive and difficult groups of people to do business with . |
| 25 | In addition , the research will assess the way in which the economic expectations of elderly people have changed over the twentieth century . |
| 26 | You have changed over the last month . |