Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb -s] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their closely cropped hair and the drawn pale look of hunger in their faces gave them that terrifying animal uniformity which falls over all human beings in permanent physical distress . |
| 2 | In a programme which boasts over one hundred separate performances in some fifteen different Belfast venues , visitors to the festival will be able to enjoy the best of international music , theatre , ballet , jazz , folk , film , exhibitions and assorted other entertainments . |
| 3 | COMEDY is set to be one of the strong suits of Meridian which takes over the TVS area and its 5.2 million viewers . |
| 4 | A ghostly flame which hovers over bogs and meadows at dusk in rural Finland . |
| 5 | When the virus takes over a cell it takes over the master-plan or system of instruction of that cell and the cell is thereafter directed to reproduce itself with the virus already in command . |
| 6 | Confidence is coming back to Oxford United … three games without defeat does n't make a season but it does build the foundations for the future … tomorrow it 's Leicester City away … no changes to a winning team … the only fresh face is Paul Wanless he takes over from Dave Penney on the bench … form favours Leicester but they were beaten by Stoke last week … and Oxford are on a high … |
| 7 | With this type of valve ( of which the Garston or BRS valve is the best known ) , there is no moving piston — rather a rubber diaphragm which closes over a nylon seating with the last movement of the float arm . |
| 8 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 9 | This routine can be carried out manually without any special equipment , but it is easier and quicker with an edit controller which takes over the operation of both machines from the one keyboard . |
| 10 | Even more extensive examples are the Deccan Plateau of India which covers more than 500 000 km 2 and the vast Parana Plateau which extends over some 750 000 km 2 of Uruguay and southern Brazil . |
| 11 | To run Windows 3.0 CompuAdd also includes a choice of Microsoft packages : Excel for Windows , the powerful , new-generation spreadsheet which takes over where Lotus 1-2-3 leaves off ; Word for Windows , now challenging WordPerfect for the number one word-processing slot , with its ability to import graphics and manage text ; and PowerPoint for Windows , for producing graphics-based slides , charts , overheads at new levels of professionalism . |
| 12 | One suggestion has been that the energy output of the Sun itself fluctuates over a long period . |
| 13 | Though involving less spectacular rates of uplift , crustal unloading by denudation is a far more pervasive process which extends over long periods of time , in contrast to the rather transient effects of deglaciation and evaporation of lakes . |
| 14 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
| 15 | Or the actor who stumbles over his words for the second time at a rehearsal . |
| 16 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 17 | Banc One sets basic yet strict financial targets for the banks it takes over , but it lets local managers decide how to meet them . |
| 18 | I probably would have worked out well , I 'll be the spare man , I 'll need four men working on five lathes , because I 'll need a spare lathe in case one falls over , so I can keep four running , I 'll need four men in case one of them 's sick or one , when they go on holidays I can fill in , so we can always get four lathes working . |
| 19 | Third and finally , spillovers may be most extensive in high R&D sectors simply because firms may have to do extensive R&D on their own in order to benefit from the knowledge which spills over from rivals ' efforts . |
| 20 | The phenomenon here may be the breaking up ( perhaps by storm ) of the hard crusty surface which forms over deep lakes of liquid mud in the Arabah rift valley where this incident occurred . |
| 21 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 22 | The ‘ Mercury ’ catalogue is by no means all showpiece music — there are concertos by Dvořák , Schumann and Beethoven for example — but the discs one lingers over include Doráti and the LSO in Stravinsky , Paray/detroit SO in an all-Ravel programme , or Dorźti again with the LSO and his own Minneapolis Orchestra in Respighi 's Pines , Fountains and Birds . |
| 23 | With a broad smile he comes over . |
| 24 | Chamberlain Square is a lively amphitheatre flanked by the Museum and Art Gallery and the Central Library which houses over 1 million books on nine floors , with Britain 's largest Shakespeare collection numbering over 50,000 items . |
| 25 | A teacher who regards his work in this way , who sees his task as being not merely an overseer of academic progress but a mature adult who watches over and helps a child to find personal identity in an ever more complex and fast moving world may deservedly claim to be considered doing work worthy of professional status . |
| 26 | It presupposes that either this government has all the authority it claims over its population or it has none . |
| 27 | His output is prodigious and it springs from the unbending control he exercises over every aspect of his life . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're looking , Chris , at a golfing asset which turns over around four million pounds a year . ’ |
| 29 | God 's Word is not simply a bare event of encounter with the Subject who stands over against us as Lord . |
| 30 | And they 're so lovely at Windsor and fresh in case anyone pops over from over the road |