Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three to six years later tall herbs take over ; in Sheffield we find rosebay willow-herb , tansy ( Tanacetum vulgare ) , goat 's rue ( Galega officinalis ) , wormwood ( Artemisia absinthium ) , mugwort ( A. vulgaris ) and occasionally golden rod ( Solidago canadensis ) among others . |
| 2 | Then three to six years later , tall herbs take over ( centre ) . |
| 3 | Normally , you will be able to agree to disagree when necessary , but if conflicting attitudes spill over into lasting antagonism , then you are heading for trouble . |
| 4 | The fact that political authorities rule over whole communities itself dictates some of the ways in which the question of the justification of such authorities should be formulated . |
| 5 | Nature has been banished , technology and its concomitant values reign over a harshly masculine world . |
| 6 | Extreme care is needed not to space the tracks so closely together that any high voltages flash over between tracks can occur . |
| 7 | Top cyclists ride over hills rather than up them , the gradients scarcely affecting their rhythm , the gears helping to keep the pedalling rate more or less constant . |
| 8 | The Proverbs of the Old Testament return over and over again to the theme that men should beware women ; the Jewish Talmud says that if you teach the Laws to a woman , you teach her lasciviousness ; the Hindu sage Manu teaches that if women go unrestrained , the result is anarchy ; and the oft-quoted Church Fathers and medieval theologians appear to respond to the idea of the Female with fear and disgust . |
| 9 | Two French Commandos take over and carry their wounded comrade the remaining part of the way ; he manages a smile as they pick him up . |
| 10 | Different companies take over , I remember that time we borrowed that four thousand pound . |
| 11 | There is a strong ‘ old boy network ’ among German banks and industry , and this is reflected in the high degree of control which the German banks exercise over German industry through their shareholdings . |
| 12 | The tiny scullion squealed and the bucket clattered to the floor , staying upright but letting some of its glutinous contents slop over the side . |
| 13 | It 's far from fast and there is some body shake over very rough roads . |
| 14 | He took a much greater and more serious risk , one which his relatives to this day gloss over or fudge . |
| 15 | He remembered sitting on a wall with a cousin , watching the first German bombers fly over . |
| 16 | Gulls the size of light aeroplanes flap over litter bins , joggers reeking of anti-perspirant run backwards , and a bunch of people who look like the original Haight Ashbury hippy collective play conga drums and saxophones in the distance , blowing a surreal note on a balmy breeze . |
| 17 | ‘ The Warden was just telling me all the details when this policeman come over , wanted to talk to 'im . |
| 18 | Instead of a see-saw process as different regions take over the running , a vicious circle sets in — a process of cumulative causation — by which the places which initially take the lead generate , by that very fact , all kinds of other advantages which make their position unassailable . |
| 19 | Dangerous driving cos he made the old woman give over and overtook somewhere totally stupid and probably find he had no brake . |
| 20 | At vegetable markets in Kiev old ladies argue over the relative radiation levels found in carrots and cabbage . |
| 21 | But no such social constraints exist over possession of books , and the new reading book Peter had asked to buy — that had to be sacrificed . |
| 22 | As plants move in to colonise newly available ground different species take over from each other in a series of stages known as ‘ succession ’ . |
| 23 | In The Wrench he creates the rigger Faussone , the practical man whose cranes girdle the world and who keeps returning , a little heavy-footed , to the house in Turin where two old aunts fuss over his welfare : Faussone was spoken of as ‘ my alter ego ’ , and the book has to struggle to accommodate him as a second person , available for interview by Levi . |
| 24 | Although these broader issues spill over into the whole question of extending the notion of the sociolinguistic variable into the domain of syntactic analysis , they are relevant to data collection because they often entail difficulties in obtaining sufficient quantities of a specific type of data . |
| 25 | There are changes in technology : electronic systems take over from the electromechanical mode typical of ‘ mass culture ’ ( just as that had taken over from the purely mechanical production and distribution methods of the earlier bourgeois period , epitomized by music printing ) . |
| 26 | Periodically , groups of East German soldiers cross over the Wire , laden with cameras to watch and photograph British soldiers shooting on the ranges . |
| 27 | The applications of this principle extend over almost every field of economic inquiry . |
| 28 | Rae Boxall was Border 's only representative at the Fleet Half Marathon run over a new two-lap course . |
| 29 | 1 knew how he felt , for in an operation like this nerves take over and you rest so heavily upon the skill of the dispatcher that you ask his permission even to breathe . |
| 30 | The government had hoped to make the private sector take over nuclear power stations , but John Wakeham eventually had to admit that no one wanted them . |