Example sentences of "over [prep] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more serious threat of the expanding red weed had taken over as the immediate concern of the controllers . |
| 2 | In August 1953 Sir John Nott-Bower took over as the new Commissioner at Scotland Yard and was reported as saying that he would ‘ rip the covers off all London 's filth spots ’ . |
| 3 | He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ . |
| 4 | Debutant fly-half Alain Penaud is about to initiate the switch which put Saint-André ( mouth open ) over for the only try of the match as a Welsh posse of Neil Jenkins , Davies and Webster cover across in vain . |
| 5 | In 1642 he was acting as a commissary , or supply officer , at Chester , sending provisions over for the Anglo-Scottish forces in Ireland . |
| 6 | But , although winning a famous victory over ( Sir ) Winston Churchill to become Labour MP for Dundee in November 1922 , he was passed over for the foreign secretaryship of the first Labour government fourteen months later . |
| 7 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 8 | They even gave him a Plate to carry it on — silver , that is — when they beat Tonga in a pulsating second-tier final which saw Gareth James power over for the winning try in extra time . |
| 9 | Replacing the highly popular Mr Dubcek was no easy task , but on the grounds that Janos Kadar salvaged something in Hungary when he took over after the popular uprising of 1956 , Mr Husak might have achieved something . |
| 10 | He thought that this solved the problem , but it did not — it was a silly , thoughtless and trivial glossing over of the essential differences in the text . |
| 11 | The investment weightings of the portfolio have continued to show an overwhelming bias towards publishing , which has accounted for 75% or over of the whole portfolio since June 1991 . |
| 12 | Rafiq followed him , and for a moment Robert thought he was going to hit him , but , instead , he ran across the road and over towards the far side of the Common . |
| 13 | Then the horse plunged as Jones shook the reins to get rid of the swaying woman who still hung like a limpet , and Anmer rolled over towards the inside rails with Jones underneath . |
| 14 | Man stands over against the awful otherness of God , by which his own existence is challenged , questioned and judged ; but in faith he finds the power nonetheless to live in that encounter with God by which each present moment becomes a meeting with eternity . |
| 15 | He pointed to two dark shapes over near the charnel house at the far side of the cemetery . |
| 16 | They looked like some great beast with gaping mouth and hungry eyes , then I caught a movement over near the great elms at the far side of the common . |
| 17 | It is the symbolic violence of the teenager on the terraces , which spills over into the odd affray with visiting gangs that is more typical than the premeditated violence of disturbed or habitually aggressive individuals , who see football as a kind of arena for serious assault with little risk of arrest . |
| 18 | I trust that the benefits which will accrue during this central development will carry over into the future developments by individual colleges and institutions as the process of devolution of unit writing and assessment is established . |
| 19 | In early 1988 is seemed as if the conflicts of the Middle East had spilled over into the strange world of British fascism . |
| 20 | Many of the summary techniques used to describe mortality carry over into the other components of change . |
| 21 | Although these broader issues spill over into the whole question of extending the notion of the sociolinguistic variable into the domain of syntactic analysis , they are relevant to data collection because they often entail difficulties in obtaining sufficient quantities of a specific type of data . |
| 22 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 23 | The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient , reined-in horsepower . |
| 24 | There were four bids of 4,000gns and over with the two-year-old Zhaab from TJ Harding of Hardhurst , Walton , Brampton , making the second top figure of the day at 4,400gns when he was snapped up by J Tully of Bowenhill , Teviothead , Hawick . |
| 25 | We arrived here yesterday from Flinders at which place I was especially gratified to [ word not clear ] my acquaintance with the Natives and other things , and I should have left the island with a light heart and proceeded to Kings had [ not ] a fatal accident happened to one of the men who shot himself dead by incautiously pulling the gun from the boat with the muzzle toward his chest , the cock of the gun caught the seat of the boat and all was over with the poor fellow in half a minute . |
| 26 | When I told Constanza , she who has a memory for these things said , ‘ Good Lord , not M. J. Devaux who came over with the French team after the war ? ’ |
| 27 | Michael , 28 , of Wyville Grove , Hunton , won the judges over including the head chef of London 's Savoy Hotel to claim the £500 first prize along with a commemorative medal and certificate . |
| 28 | A WOMAN died when her car crossed over onto the wrong side of the road , hit a Transit van and overturned yesterday . |
| 29 | The first time I get on , it is often after spending a few hours with them , and I kinda transfer over from the stable door to their backs . ’ |
| 30 | That monstrous bombard Mons Meg was heaved over from the Low Countries to Scotland . |