Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Pancreatic juice volume was sampled in 10 minute collection periods and the total amount collected over a 10 minute period was defined as pancreatic volume output . |
2 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
3 | Basically , the FS-77 offers control over the Quad X 's main features in a very no-nonsense fashion . |
4 | According to the second view , inspiration was mantic possession : the divine afflatus took over the voice of prophet or prophetess , and employed the human agent as a musician plays a lyre which has no mind of its own . |
5 | The retiring chairman handed over the meeting to the new chairman , John Sharp who , in accepting the post , thanked Dr. Watson for his tireless work on behalf of the Village Association . |
6 | The retiring chairman handed over the meeting to the new chairman , John Sharp who , in accepting the post , thanked Dr. Watson for his tireless work on behalf of the Village Association . |
7 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
8 | Rounding the great bend opposite East Ord , they suddenly came into view of the English forces massing over a mile ahead . |
9 | What he thought he needed was someone with the public fame to take over the leadership and to hold a candle to the great names of Lloyd George , Austen Chamberlain , Churchill , Birkenhead and Balfour . |
10 | When the accompanying stream drops over a ledge , it is a signal to retreat and return to daylight . |
11 | That left Pitcher undefeated on 32 and the Light Blues to mull over a 133-run defeat that might have been much more comprehensive . |
12 | This perspective is inadequate for an understanding of the colonial legal system because the post-independence practices evolved over a long period of time . |
13 | A lady from the nearby pub bought over a couple of pints — there was quite a reception aftewards . |
14 | Her face looked calm and beautiful as it slept its enforced slumber , the lips slightly parted , the dark curls spilling over a pale cheek . |
15 | The creator of the evening 's culinary triumphs emerged unshaven from a cavernous kitchen where he had spent the entire day cooking over a wood fire . |
16 | The male assistant handed over a small sum of money and the robber escaped on foot towards Marton Road . |
17 | ‘ Your breakfast 's ready , ’ said the second mate taking over the helm . |
18 | It is interesting to notice here indications of the decadence of the late Roman style in the relieving arches accentuated over a lintel and columns supported on corbels ( 138 ) . |
19 | They guarantee that for every £100 nominal worth of gilts bought by an investor , £100 will be paid on maturity , plus the increase in the Retail Prices Index over the years to that maturity . |
20 | But both companies ' increase in money sales merely matched the six-fold increase in the retail prices index over the 20 years . |
21 | In return for a small share of the songs ' royalty earnings , the larger company takes over the day-to-day business of administering the musicians ' song catalogues while the musicians retain all copyright and control of their material ( see the ‘ self-publishing ’ section below ) . |
22 | Santer visited the Soviet Union on Oct. 21-24 , 1990 , shortly before the Grand Duchy took over the presidency of the European Community Council for the first half of 1991 . |
23 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
24 | His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 . |
25 | But the Pilkington dispute could not have been anticipated ( although there were issues that precipitated it — pay levels were perceived to be low and the initial walkout occurred over a wages error ) . |
26 | I found the Italian-Irish proprietor poring over an encyclopaedia of Black Magic while his female relatives served a crowd of hungry teenage boys . |
27 | There was little change in relations with the United States , although in May 1990 the North for the first time handed over the remains of US servicemen missing in action from the Korean War [ see p. 37456 ; see also p. 38295 ] . |
28 | She served as demonstrator in botany at Bedford College for Women from 1886 to 1890 , when she succeeded Grenville A. J. Cole as head of the geology department , thus becoming the first woman to take over the headship of a geology department in a British university . |
29 | Resting gall bladder pressure was the mean pressure recorded over a five minute period immediately before an intravenous bolus of either CCK-8 or bethanechol , and the response was defined as the maximal change in intraluminal pressure recorded during the first five minute period after the bolus . |
30 | ‘ I would fancy our chances of turning round the Irish Derby form over a mile and a quarter . ’ |