Example sentences of "[noun] are [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newspaper and magazine graphics are a classic example of this sort of art ; stock illustrations are used over and over again , weather maps for example , but each one is slightly modified from the previous . |
| 2 | The SAWS points to cases where outstanding women associates are passed over by younger , less experienced men sharing the same school tie . |
| 3 | And since Gilbert de Clare died in Brittany on his way home from this French campaign , the earldom of Gloucester and all its lands go to a child , and boy and barony are handed over to de Burgh . |
| 4 | Experts are divided over whether the commission will urge specific new legislation making hacking a crime , or opt for changes in existing laws to cope with certain types of computer crime . |
| 5 | Experts are divided over whether routine screening is a good idea — but they 'd like to see women are tested before they conceive . |
| 6 | Completion — the final stage , when keys and money are handed over . |
| 7 | Under such a scheme sums of money are paid over periodically either for a fixed period or until the death of the injured party . |
| 8 | If you are not on the inside track , then decision are taken over which you have no influence . |
| 9 | Birds are bowled over |
| 10 | Here only the place-names refer to france ; the junipers , the spruce and fir , and the falling snow are taken over by Pound from a landscape at the other side of the world . |
| 11 | After cutting and initial drying of the exposed surface the swathes are turned over by hand or mechanical rake to expose the wet under-surface and to move the whole windrow onto dry ground . |
| 12 | Kramer 's books , on Dupont Circle , offers cups of cappucino as books are mulled over . |
| 13 | In an environment of heavy snowfall , where mean monthly temperatures are above freezing point in summer but down to -15°C in winter , the lakes are frozen over with 1–2 m of snow covered ice for 8–11 months each year . |
| 14 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 15 | The economics involved may mean some smaller ITV companies are taken over by larger ones or even open to takeover from Continental broadcasters . |
| 16 | But uncertainties are smoothed over by this idealization of a historically and socially specific , juridical concept of power ( Hussain 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Three days ' journey on into the desert are hurried over in a verse , and then the people run out of water . |
| 18 | Term : The total time that the instalments are paid over . |
| 19 | Effectiveness in such projects is linked with male-identified achievement , and the different achievement options are themselves structured by dominant discourses of gender ; but these gendered associations are passed over ( e.g. Dickson 1982 ) . |
| 20 | The most active elements of the intelligentsia are won over by personal privileges to the prevailing ideology as well as being subject to the prevalent intellectual control while the peasants are tied to the land by economic hardship imposed through short-term , small-unit landholding contracts ( such as sharecropping ) , which discourage capital investment . |
| 21 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 22 | Many words which express mathematical ideas are used over and over again and it is important that they are used correctly , especially comparatives such as wider , longer , deeper , heavier , lighter , thicker and thinner . |
| 23 | Because traffic counts are taken over a one year period , it 'll be 1993 before Gloucestershire 's new traffic figures are available . |
| 24 | Much of the stocks are left over from the campaigns conducted against locusts and mosquitoes two decades ago . |
| 25 | Finally 5 Corps stated to Eighth Army : " it would appear that unless these formations are taken over by us as formed bodies and disarmed they will force their way across border as individual bandits plunder the country disorganise economic life our zone and threatened our security . |
| 26 | I 'm turned out of the house where I was born whether I want to go or no , the house and the business are handed over to … to that woman , and I have to share what is left in a joint legacy with Francis ! ’ |
| 27 | So when the Japanese cut production in a slumping market , as they are doing this year , these high overhead costs are spread over fewer chips . |
| 28 | A minor criticism of the use made of the data is that , of the 21 couples participating , the same handful are quoted over and over . |
| 29 | It may happen that individuals are taken over by the organisation and by groups within it , particularly where the corporate identity and image is a strong one . |
| 30 | In the moment of performing a task this recall of the past is precluded but when the ongoing continuum can be switched to ‘ automatic ’ the lines are cleared and old problems are worked over again . |