Example sentences of "over [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In early 1988 is seemed as if the conflicts of the Middle East had spilled over into the strange world of British fascism . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient , reined-in horsepower . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A WOMAN died when her car crossed over onto the wrong side of the road , hit a Transit van and overturned yesterday . |
| 14 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 15 | The VPE , headed by Solange Fernex , also wants the funds left over from the Presidential campaign of Bruce Lalonde , one of the AT 's leading lights , to go into a common kitty , rather than being set aside for a future bid for power by Lalonde — perhaps in the European parliament elections in 1984 . |
| 16 | But though the machinery of government is developing in this direction , there is insufficient willingness to face the facts , to give up some of the pretences left over from the old period of vigorous , participatory democracy in order to remove the anomalies and rationalize the system . |
| 17 | The chemicals , including substances such as DDT , long banned in the rest of Germany , as well as formulations never subject to safety testing in the West , are left over from the pre-unification production of East German industries . |
| 18 | And newcomer Lesley Ottery , formerly with PowerGen , has taken over in the newly-created post of Director of Information Systems . |
| 19 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 20 | There are some aspects of our personalities which may not come over in the brief span of an interview , but which those close to us know only too well . |
| 21 | Alina was over on the far side of the room , sitting at her table with the lamp angled to spill across the pages of the scrapbook that lay open in front of her . |
| 22 | Now he sat out on the porch with his chair tilted back and his feet up on the rail , and he sipped at his beer as he watched the patterns of sunlight on the forest over on the far side of the track . |
| 23 | Quiss came back to the table by way of another small , though taller , table over on the far side of the room , where a few dirty cups and cracked glasses stood in a small tin basin under a dripping tap . |
| 24 | He meets us over on the far side of the town at nine thirty P.M. ’ |
| 25 | I was standing there talking to him , and over on the other side of Lime Street , the station side , there was another mackintosh shop and they had ten shilling notes pasted in the window . |
| 26 | Over on the other side of the High Street , Saddam Hussein had straightened up . |
| 27 | Somewhere , over on the other side of the Common , a truck moved up from below the hill and , headlights hooded , started across towards Parkside . |
| 28 | Over on the other side of the Gulf , Iran had its share of misfortune when an earthquake struck the region containing the key oilfield of Gach Saran . |
| 29 | I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room . |
| 30 | I replied that as far as I was concerned his terms and conditions of employment were best used as a rectal implant preferably without benefit of anaesthetic , which roused him to suggest that perhaps the whole matter would best be served by being turned over to the florid authority of Her Majesty 's Judiciary , via PC Plod , or at the very least to some banal tribunal vested with the right to dilly-dally over contretemps between master and servant . |