Example sentences of "[verb] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , JG ( J. Gray ) heard the inspector of the relief with which he was working say over the personal radio , ‘ Look , I 've got a bunch of coons in sight ’ . |
| 2 | Make a second list of other pieces you think you would like when you can afford them , say over the next five years or so . |
| 3 | They fly over the high peaks of the Himalayas and exist in surprising numbers on the permanent ice caps of the Poles . |
| 4 | But both companies ' increase in money sales merely matched the six-fold increase in the retail prices index over the 20 years . |
| 5 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 6 | Thus , whilst Wallis and Gusfield disagree over the likely causes of resentment , both appear to be identifying ‘ status groups ’ as central to moral campaigns . |
| 7 | Skinner 's notes to the final disc in the Christchurch recordings of the Byrd masses skate over the exact reasons for this change of pitch and , although I would agree that the brighter sound of trebles has the greater immediate impact than men 's voices alone , it could be argued that if this Mass was ever used , it would most likely have been performed by solo voices or a small and musically skinned ensemble gathered to celebrate a recusant Roman service , probably without the participation of boys . |
| 8 | What has been the subject of radical , almost revolutionary , change over the past decade or so has not been the civic culture but the perceptions of that culture . |
| 9 | Until the northern route was made the only road link between Applecross and the world outside lay over the notorious Bealach na Ba , a high and difficult pass attaining an elevation of 2000 feet ; a sore trial for a timid car driver . |
| 10 | There she lay , cold and wounded , clutching the branch and staring at the corpse of Scathach , limp over the black horse . |
| 11 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 12 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 13 | Two key questions remain over the entire affair . |
| 14 | A friend of both of them , who has watched this unhappy saga unfold over the last decade , now concedes : ‘ I am sorry for the tragedy of it all . |
| 15 | It is absolutely essential to ensure that , so long as the possibility of control or influence over the Russian republics remains , steps are taken to bring about a strategic arms reduction . |
| 16 | In a similar way , the fact that the Prime Minister is leader of the party and the fact that the majority party in Parliament invariably supports the Prime Minister 's lead and the legislation set before them , does not " prove " that the party itself is without influence over the Prime Minister . |
| 17 | And it is my responsibility to make sure the players concentrate over the entire 90 minutes and are not looking towards the next match . |
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| 20 | Alistair MacDonald , the director , has seen the play germinate over the last 18 months from roots in the Gaelic Youth Theatre summer school in 1991 and an experimental workshop production at the Mod Fringe in Dingwall the same year . |
| 21 | I intend over the next Journals to put them on record for all members , who are unable to visit the Museum at Bishop 's Castle , to reproduce them for you . |
| 22 | Notwithstanding the former grandeur of the Cathedral , Johnson wrote no more than a page on Elgin , concluding with an attractive clue to a traveller in his wake : ‘ In the chief street of Elgin , the houses jut over the lowest story , like the old buildings of timber in London , but with greater prominence : so that there is sometimes a walk for a considerable length under a cloister , or portico . ’ |
| 23 | A crisis may won develop over the late arrival of the board 's evidence on the manufacture of the pressure vessel , which will house the reactor core . |
| 24 | Rudely , without waiting for him to hand it to her , she snatched it out of his hand , then anxiously turned over the scrawled papers one by one . |
| 25 | Dyson slowly turned over the empty pages of his diary . |
| 26 | The Somerset landscape has been dissolved in darkness , and the mysterious forces of nature , normally sought by Coleridge high in the Quantocks , or in the dell at Alfoxden , now wash over the sleeping town and reach to the very door of his cottage . |
| 27 | He leaned back , then took up the book and began to read again , letting Lao Tzu 's words — words more than two and a half thousand years old — wash over the sleeping boy and bring him ease . |
| 28 | Parish council clerk at Gainford Margaret Brown said : ‘ They should n't strictly have been on the bridge but a lot of people do walk on it and climb over the small barricade at each end . |
| 29 | So the quickest way to get to the woods , if you were part of the Martin household , was to enter the orchard farthest from the house and climb over the vine-clad wall at its end . |
| 30 | ‘ We hope over the five years to make a significant impact into solving the area 's many problems , ’ said Coun Carr . |