Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | When the accompanying stream drops over a ledge , it is a signal to retreat and return to daylight . |
| 8 | A lady from the nearby pub bought over a couple of pints — there was quite a reception aftewards . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The male assistant handed over a small sum of money and the robber escaped on foot towards Marton Road . |
| 11 | ‘ Your breakfast 's ready , ’ said the second mate taking over the helm . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | I found the Italian-Irish proprietor poring over an encyclopaedia of Black Magic while his female relatives served a crowd of hungry teenage boys . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was doing three tasks at once : checking the statements of witnesses in a report being prepared for the Public Prosecutor and at the same time turning over the photographs and diagrams of the house in Church Row which the SOCO had put together . |
| 21 | All this is followed meticulously if at a respectful distance by Doolittle 's seven-piece band , written for with a sure ear for tonal balance and a strong sense of the orchestra 's role as a virtual extension of the voice , but with little willingness to let the musical idea take over the action . |
| 22 | With coal supplies fast dwindling , Truman acted : the Federal government took over the mines and prepared to bring in the army to run the railroads . |
| 23 | Initially , he could n't see the body , and then he noticed the tell-tale blanket draped over a shape on the floor . |
| 24 | The third member of the 101st Congress to resign over an issue of personal ethics , Lukens had been accused of sexually fondling a female congressional elevator operator . |
| 25 | Lucy Lane is at the local nick taking over the paper work . |