Example sentences of "[noun] over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spending more of the taxpayers ' funds to make the King Edmondo seaworthy , and to rig her out with state-of-the-art marine communications equipment , Coleman handed the boat over in late March to Hurley , who renamed her Skunk Kilo . |
| 2 | The water industry favours the change over to European methods of incineration and composting , but faces opposition from people living in the vicinity of proposed incineration plants . |
| 3 | The Mayor with a local school girl , handing her empty cans over to Alcan mascot , Ali Can . |
| 4 | ‘ Besotted by that silly queer over at Imperial . ’ |
| 5 | All right , I 'll send a PC over with written confirmation , but meanwhile get on with it . ’ |
| 6 | The bizarre story of British academic institutions ' flattery of the Ceauşescus could be repeated many times over in other impeccably democratic countries . |
| 7 | I suspect , indeed , that the whole process of evolution , from remote resemblance to near perfect mimicry , has gone on , rather rapidly , many times over in different insect groups , during the whole long period that bird vision has been just about as good as it is today . |
| 8 | The white supremacist Rhodesian Front government ( 1962–79 ) had actually reduced the proportion of expenditure on black education from 8 per cent of GNP in 1965 to 2 per cent thereafter , largely handing financial responsibility over to African local councils which did not have the funds or capacity to run a school system . |
| 9 | The Soviet emphasis on simple materials and technologies ensures in contrast long production lines , low unit costs , and an ability to turn spare capacity over to military production with a minimum of retraining and re-tooling . |
| 10 | To hand the work over to elected local authorities covering an extensive area would be to set up bodies with a genuine degree of independence and power , and this is suspect . |
| 11 | When Barbarossa was driven from Rome in 1167 many of the cities of the Po valley joined together in the Lombard League under the aegis of Milan ; and they built a new fortress town over against imperial Turin , guarding the approach to Lombardy from the west , which they called Alessandria after the emperor 's great rival , Pope Alexander III . |
| 12 | Ten years previously he had bound her husband over to good behaviour and to appear at the next sessions . |
| 13 | We wheedled the book ourselves out of that gullible weakling Fleming over at Dull . |
| 14 | Plnëná sardelová vejce was a tasty concoction of egg and anchovy , and Fabia gave her attention over to other matters . |
| 15 | Pinot Meunier vines are easily recognised in the vineyard by their leaves which have deep sinuses , accentuated lobes and white undersides , hence Meunier or ‘ Miller ’ suggesting a brushing over with white miller 's flour . |
| 16 | Turning things over at random and hoping to stumble on the sought object usually works when the space to be searched is small . |
| 17 | Are turning things over in high parts of the house |
| 18 | Ex-Sun Microsystems Inc executive Bill Keating who traipsed off about 18 months ago to become vice president and general manager over at Rational Inc ( UX No 349 ) is now winding down out of that job and consulting with the new Lachman Technology Inc , helping to get that start-up going ( UX No 418 ) . |
| 19 | People who understand that the separation of church and state in the majority community is a prerequisite of religious freedom , are nevertheless happy to override principles of equality and human rights in minority communities by handing their political control over to religious leaders . |
| 20 | On her release she refused to hand the paper over to other Communist party members , and was expelled from the party . |
| 21 | In 1943 , there were several arrivals from Scandinavia including Wilhelm Flehner , born in Vienna , who had escaped from Norway over into neutral Sweden . |
| 22 | Both these parties would also abolish the assisted places scheme by which children of poorer parents are able to benefit from some of the best schools in the country , and will hand City Technology Colleges over to local authorities . |
| 23 | After handling each recruit 's clothes the Chief-Corporal swilled his hands over with surgical spirit , wiping them dry on a piece of grey towel . |
| 24 | They would give equal rights and opportunities to all qualified Nigerians to participate in the political process in the run-up to when the military hands over to civilian rule in 1992 , the President said . |
| 25 | The first thing I do is check the stocks , followed by date returns and er , you know , erm , get that done , out of the way , and start looking at the , of the night , and what have you , setting that up , and maybe the late night process , hand over from the branch manager , walk round doing any detail he wants me to do , and hand over from late nights . |
| 26 | THE scene is the same the world over in dark alleys or dimly-lit streets . |
| 27 | VISystems Inc , the Dallas , Texas-based company founded back in 1987 to help with the migration of IBM CICS transaction processing software over to Unix-based systems , is set to announce a tie-in with Sony Corp for its VIS/TP transaction processing system family of products . |
| 28 | He squirts his horde over with milky semen |
| 29 | They 're planning to turn their ground into an all-seater stadium when they can find a three-piece cheap suite enough — the only way they 'll raise the money is to turn their pitch over to growing cabbages and start a fruit-and-veg. stall on Birmingham market selling rotten fruit ! |