Example sentences of "[noun] were [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a present-day Darwin were to agonize over his matrimonial fate in what ways might it differ from the example above ? |
| 2 | If the UN were to take over some government functions , the bill might rise to $10m a month . |
| 3 | He described how the ladder was to be set up against the wire , how people were to clamber over and how they were to swing themselves clear through the gap at the end . |
| 4 | Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this . |
| 5 | The provincial authorities were to turn over more revenue to the state while receiving reduced subsidies , in order to centralize resources . |
| 6 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |