Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the cafés in the quiet , tree-lined High Street were a little shabby , and the handsome Georgian houses taken over as bank premises , solicitors , offices , and old people 's homes . |
| 2 | As a point of interest , our branch also collects used English and foreign stamps , while any foreign coins left over from your holidays would be welcome , too ! |
| 3 | The total time lost by system users as a result of errors or the need to correct errors should not exceed twelve and a half hours taken over a three month rolling average ( i.e. 98% accuracy of processing ) . |
| 4 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 5 | Maybe that 's just me , but that 's how I feel … there 's no warmth … just red paint around the outside and then a few splodges gone over with different coloured paint and [ he ] hoped for the best … |
| 6 | There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing . |
| 7 | Having pressed all the component parts to make up a wedding picture for the bride , there may be some pieces left over ( if you have followed my advice and pressed additional flowers and foliage in case of accident ) . |
| 8 | Down by the tailpiece there are some screw-holes left over from fitting a Bigsby vibrato . |
| 9 | I 've still got 300 sets left over from that job lot I got the other Christmas . |
| 10 | Yeah I mean if you get erm , I 'll tell you what actually , because it 's a two hour slot I can in one slot get them to y'know and th we 're not in a great hurry cos there 's usually a few spaces left over at the end of the term . |
| 11 | So most of the electrons and antielectrons would have annihilated with each other to produce more photons , leaving only a few electrons left over . |
| 12 | And there 's a few coppers left over . |
| 13 | He whistled ‘ Roll Out the Barrel ’ out of tune as he pushed the few remains left over from the day towards the setting sun . |
| 14 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |
| 15 | Goggled officials hunched over consoles around tiers of cantilevered wrought-iron galleries , listening to data , whispering orders . |
| 16 | That night , Dot was to sleep on two extra blankets folded over to make a thin mattress for he , the man , would be in the bed where Dot used to sleep . |
| 17 | The duplicate tickets were also altered and all the remaining tickets written over so it would be impossible to tell which had been changed . |
| 18 | East of the Fosse in Townsend Close , the buildings apparently also went out of use , with their associated plots given over to burials , which again followed the earlier layouts and rarely contained any grave goods ; observation of roadworks between Townsend Close and Heave Acre revealed yet more similar burials . |
| 19 | All of this means that in the past year Schnabel has applied paint and might one hope quality thought time ? to an area as big as a standard tennis court with 400 square feet left over . |
| 20 | In spite of their weariness and thirst they declined to drink the water which the Europeans had been using and which was stored in half a dozen hip-baths brought over from the Residency a week earlier ( only one of which still contained any water ) . |
| 21 | Although Microsoft Corp is currently gorging itself on Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms with its Windows desktop environment — and Windows NT will follow — there are still expected to be some rich pickings left over for the gaggle of hopefuls which are working on desktop Unix implementations for the architecture , which will soon include the new P5 80586 iteration when it arrives . |
| 22 | Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds . |
| 23 | It is extremely probable that it was one of the many plants brought over to Britain by the Roman occupationary army to remind the legionaries , while they shivered in the damp foggy cold , of the warmth and dryness they had left behind at home . |
| 24 | Contrary to popular belief , long timespans given over to arduous , repetitive practice do not necessarily equate with improvement . |
| 25 | The Faculty also offers a range of vocational courses taken over one or two years in subjects such as Architecture ( DipArch ) , Education ( MEd ) , Landscape Architecture ( MLA ) , Nursing Studies ( MSc ) and Social Work ( MSW ) . |
| 26 | Goodwill , which arises where the cost of acquiring subsidiary companies exceeds the net assets taken over , is written off directly to reserves . |
| 27 | But this is a partial explanation ; as Urry ( 1981 : 93 ) points out , not all industries taken over by the state are necessarily unprofitable in private hands ; a striking recent example would be the nationalization of some of the leading French banks and industrial conglomerates by the Mitterand government in 1982 ( Durupty 1986a : 77–119 ) . |
| 28 | There are also signs that FTC could soon sign a deal with the rump of the Football League , those clubs left over after the formation of the new Premier League . |
| 29 | If the new motherboard is smaller then you will have some mounting pillars left over — keep them safe . |
| 30 | They are sometimes acidic to neutralise any alkaline residues carried over from the washing process and sometimes include disinfectants . |