Example sentences of "over the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These processes are justified by the fact that the audience wields some power over the moves of the managers . |
| 2 | My advantage over the rest of the managers is that I can manipulate my time more . |
| 3 | In the tenth century it was imagined to be an immemorial tradition that archbishops wishing to receive from the pope the ‘ pallium ’ , the scarf of lambs ' wool which set them apart as metropolitans and gave them their status over the rest of the bishops , should come to Rome in person to receive it . |
| 4 | Well they did n't mind catching them that these here gamekeepers they come on more or less at the finish of the harvest over the field with the guns what was left . |
| 5 | He really looked so absurdly young and guileless , so like a starry-eyed subaltern about to go over the top into the machine-guns of the Somme , that Maxim almost answered . |
| 6 | It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays . |
| 7 | Sprinkle evenly over the top of the vegetables , drizzle all over with a little olive oil and bake for 15–20 minutes until crisp and lightly browned . |
| 8 | Spread them over the top of the onions and round the sides of the casserole . |
| 9 | Sir Adrian cites the example of the army commander who leads his troops over the top of the trenches when it might have been more prudent to stay put . |
| 10 | But at least Lewis is a fighting man who is eager to climb over the top of the trenches and go into battle to earn his rights . |
| 11 | The High Court in Glasgow heard that as the car started to go over the top of the steps , one of the youths pushing it shouted : ‘ There 's somebody down there . ’ |
| 12 | For this reason the series of electric fences around the fields at Heyside Farm , put up mainly to prevent the young horses leaning over the top of the rails , has to be switched off whenever Milton is turned out . |
| 13 | And I saw come just over the top of the doors as well . |
| 14 | One even had a flagpole and over the top of the trees below I could see the Union Jack fluttering . |
| 15 | The red and white helicopter rattled into sight over the top of the trees and hovered , a noisy gadfly , above the terraces . |
| 16 | When I came to planning the circuit I realised there would actually have to be two routes — a high level one , leading over the crest of the fells , and a low level alternative for unfavourable weather . |
| 17 | On 14 and 15 October — the latter date was the 150th general congregation — there was a touch of drama over the document on the Jews , or , more correctly , the Declaration on Non-Christian Religions , of which the earlier declaration on the Jews now formed a part . |
| 18 | THE two branches of the legal profession last night remained split over the abolition of the barristers ' monopoly in the higher courts as the Government published its Courts and Legal Services Bill , overturning centuries of lawyers ' traditions . |
| 19 | On April 20 , Boutros-Ghali presided over the signing by the leaders of all four Cambodian factions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic , Social and Cultural Rights . |
| 20 | Their tasks will be to win over the hearts of the doctors and teachers , while keeping the reform programme firmly on course . |
| 21 | During the session there had been some debate over the selection of the ministers of finance and foreign affairs . |
| 22 | The weight is kept over the feet with the crampons flat . |
| 23 | ‘ Most later weights are much lighter , the colours are muddier and they do n't have anything like the control over the spacing of the canes . ’ |
| 24 | Cut pieces of muslin to fit over the rims of the containers and hold each of them in place with two large rubber bands . |
| 25 | This time when he came back in to see her , the air was darkest around his form , but when he grinned over the noise of the men in the room behind the door — a woman 's laugh punctured the air beyond — and he sat down peaceably at the foot of her bed , the blue paled to a translucence like a robin 's egg . |
| 26 | It creeps over the boulders on the beds of the mountain streams , grazing on algae . |
| 27 | Reports in the previous year that a local man had been killed by the Dutch workforce make it clear that the battles over the digging of the ditches were far from one-sided . |
| 28 | Frederica gagged on hers , nauseated by a memory of the foundering black body as the life left the legs , of the crawling sheet of sticky blood over the shoulder under the pics , of trailing hooves and horns dragged over sawdust . |
| 29 | At each boundary mark , a turf is cut , thrown over the shoulder to the shouts of ‘ It 's a oorain ’ . |
| 30 | He drove past the dark oiled surface of the Seine ; he saw a bateau-mouche pass , brilliant with lights , saw two lovers , entwined in each other 's arms in the shadows ; saw a clochard out cold , slumped over the warmth of the vents from the Métro , a brown paper bag and a puddle of alcohol by his side . |