Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb -s] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their closely cropped hair and the drawn pale look of hunger in their faces gave them that terrifying animal uniformity which falls over all human beings in permanent physical distress . |
| 2 | In a programme which boasts over one hundred separate performances in some fifteen different Belfast venues , visitors to the festival will be able to enjoy the best of international music , theatre , ballet , jazz , folk , film , exhibitions and assorted other entertainments . |
| 3 | There , at Portmore , Taylor completed what he regarded as his greatest work , Ductor Dubitantium , or The Rule of Conscience in all her General Measures , Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Consciences , This work is a manual of casuistry which occupies over 1300 pages of close print . |
| 4 | All students will follow a core course on Theory and Methods of Literary Study which extends over two terms and is designed to familiarise students with the major theoretical and practical approaches to the study of literature . |
| 5 | A ghostly flame which hovers over bogs and meadows at dusk in rural Finland . |
| 6 | House Dust Mites are a major factor in Asthma , a condition which affects over 2 million people in Britain and over 10% of children . |
| 7 | And a SOCIALIST who presides over three million unemployed deserves to be . |
| 8 | When the virus takes over a cell it takes over the master-plan or system of instruction of that cell and the cell is thereafter directed to reproduce itself with the virus already in command . |
| 9 | With this type of valve ( of which the Garston or BRS valve is the best known ) , there is no moving piston — rather a rubber diaphragm which closes over a nylon seating with the last movement of the float arm . |
| 10 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 11 | This routine can be carried out manually without any special equipment , but it is easier and quicker with an edit controller which takes over the operation of both machines from the one keyboard . |
| 12 | Even more extensive examples are the Deccan Plateau of India which covers more than 500 000 km 2 and the vast Parana Plateau which extends over some 750 000 km 2 of Uruguay and southern Brazil . |
| 13 | To run Windows 3.0 CompuAdd also includes a choice of Microsoft packages : Excel for Windows , the powerful , new-generation spreadsheet which takes over where Lotus 1-2-3 leaves off ; Word for Windows , now challenging WordPerfect for the number one word-processing slot , with its ability to import graphics and manage text ; and PowerPoint for Windows , for producing graphics-based slides , charts , overheads at new levels of professionalism . |
| 14 | One suggestion has been that the energy output of the Sun itself fluctuates over a long period . |
| 15 | Though involving less spectacular rates of uplift , crustal unloading by denudation is a far more pervasive process which extends over long periods of time , in contrast to the rather transient effects of deglaciation and evaporation of lakes . |
| 16 | Several of the North-East top stars have already pledged their support for this first-ever competition on the venue which boasts over £4,000 prize money plus pools and trophies . |
| 17 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
| 18 | Or the actor who stumbles over his words for the second time at a rehearsal . |
| 19 | Now that he has advanced to the front ranks of the most expensive and super-hyped entertainment on earth , Brundle has acquired some of the essential accoutrements of a global celebrity who earns over a million dollars a year . |
| 20 | As Freud demonstrated in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego , typical group psychology produces a lowering of the ego-competence of the individual group member in favour of the group itself and especially of the leader who takes over important ego-functions from him , principally those appertaining to the superego . |
| 21 | I probably would have worked out well , I 'll be the spare man , I 'll need four men working on five lathes , because I 'll need a spare lathe in case one falls over , so I can keep four running , I 'll need four men in case one of them 's sick or one , when they go on holidays I can fill in , so we can always get four lathes working . |
| 22 | Third and finally , spillovers may be most extensive in high R&D sectors simply because firms may have to do extensive R&D on their own in order to benefit from the knowledge which spills over from rivals ' efforts . |
| 23 | They come in nine shades and give a short-lived burst of colour which fades over three to four shampoos . |
| 24 | The phenomenon here may be the breaking up ( perhaps by storm ) of the hard crusty surface which forms over deep lakes of liquid mud in the Arabah rift valley where this incident occurred . |
| 25 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 26 | With a broad smile he comes over . |
| 27 | As Global Custodian it has over £100 billion of assets under custody and provides custody and investment administration services to many leading UK institutional investors , pension funds , insurance companies and fund managers . |
| 28 | Our publicity is distributed to participants of mass bike events such as the annual Edinburgh — St. Andrews ride which attracts over 600 entrants . |
| 29 | Our publicity is distributed to participants of mass bike events such as the annual Edinburgh — St. Andrews ride which attracts over 600 entrants . |
| 30 | Our publicity is distributed to participants of mass bike events such as the annual Edinburgh — St. Andrews ride which attracts over 600 entrants , and this publicity could include information about NFC . |