Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iraq , a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty , appears to have managed to divert nuclear materials to bomb-making despite regular safeguard inspections , but the treaty has been a success on the whole — as indeed has been the complex structure of hot-line , surveillance and negotiation which has ensured that the East-West ‘ balance of terror ’ never tipped over into nuclear war : |
| 2 | Stanley 's , moving the ball wide with crisp facility , stretched their lead to 18-0 when Rees broke down the left and crashed over with muscular help from Watkinson . |
| 3 | The medical model of militarized efficiency was carried over into key areas of civil society . |
| 4 | Rhetorically the points system is also designed to reinforce specific identified behaviours that will be ‘ learnt ’ and carried over into other ( school ) situations . |
| 5 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 6 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |
| 7 | All that is learnt must be carried over into real-life situations , so training of parents is very important ( see section on ‘ Groups in the Institute ’ ) . |
| 8 | Their third conclusion is that ‘ when new technology is introduced an inappropriate form of work organization — that associated with the technical trial of the machinery — tends to be carried over to subsequent operational units ’ ( Trist et al. 1963 , 293 ) . |
| 9 | There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place . |
| 10 | Misty green valleys , shot through with rushing vodka-clear rivers ; emerald rice-paddies fringed with golden stands of bamboo , and primary forest towered over by soaring escarpments of granite . |
| 11 | Though proceedings occasionally teeter over into winsome cuteness ( witness the sugary pap of ‘ Sun ’ and ‘ Helicopter People ’ ) , most of tonight 's set sounds like the work of people with a sound grasp of pop virtues . |
| 12 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 13 | No praise can be too high for their playing , which is vivacious , brimming over with good humour , and highly expressive in the quieter dances . |
| 14 | Older children might prefer the pirate 's treasure chest brimming over with stolen loot , or the sophisticated speed cruiser and space rocket . |
| 15 | By the end of the day , Juliana was brimming over with new-found confidence . |
| 16 | ( Shreds of these hoards can now be picked over in provincial brocante shops , brave remnants of another , more confident age . ) |
| 17 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 18 | 16 NOT all Americans have been won over by Super Mario . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The room will be furnished with tatami ( mats ) for walking over in bare feet or socks/tights and seating is on zabuton ( large cushions ) . |
| 21 | Trees in the park misted over with young green , bright spring yellow flowers crowding front gardens ; embassy lawns starred with daisies ; snowdrop beds , municipal grass studded with crocuses . |
| 22 | The same thing happened when the Scottish Development Agency changed over to Scottish Enterprise . ’ |
| 23 | Without access to corporate data , says Gresham , companies are unwilling to begin the shift over from proprietary systems . |
| 24 | The new outlook we have been outlining as coming to stand over against Christian orthodoxy was by no means necessarily irreligious or anti-religious . |
| 25 | Noticing the way the young woman 's eyes had glazed over with undisguised longing , while he appeared faintly bored with the proceedings , Shannon had mentally given thanks for the fact that she was n't drawn to gorgeous , self-centred hunks like this one . |
| 26 | One was a young man of noble birth : he wore a blue cloak of rash with gold lace round the hem , a pair of silk breeches of murrey tinsel , and a buff jerkin laid over with gold lace . |
| 27 | There were few predictions of a Tory victory at the next general election and even some concern that the country might topple over into serious civil strife . |
| 28 | The choice of film seemed appropriate on the day the simmering dispute boiled over with growing frustration and bitterness among the staff , many of whom attended the Clapham train disaster and are veterans of dealing with the aftermath of IRA bomb blasts . |
| 29 | Elsewhere , equities boiled over in spectacular fashion . |
| 30 | FOSTER FURY : Essex 's paceman boiled over in dramatic fashion |