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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Passing sentence , Mr Justice Latham said : ‘ Adolescent emotions boiled over in a way that older people would have been able to cope with . ’ |
| 5 | Goggled officials hunched over consoles around tiers of cantilevered wrought-iron galleries , listening to data , whispering orders . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The duplicate tickets were also altered and all the remaining tickets written over so it would be impossible to tell which had been changed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Contrary to popular belief , long timespans given over to arduous , repetitive practice do not necessarily equate with improvement . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Goodwill , which arises where the cost of acquiring subsidiary companies exceeds the net assets taken over , is written off directly to reserves . |
| 15 | If the new motherboard is smaller then you will have some mounting pillars left over — keep them safe . |
| 16 | They are sometimes acidic to neutralise any alkaline residues carried over from the washing process and sometimes include disinfectants . |
| 17 | Wrapped in white toga-like shammas worn over long white shirts and jodhpurs , they set a fashion which over the years was copied by an increasing number of their subjects . |
| 18 | Three days a week the Irish cross-channel boats brought over between 600 and 700 bales of bacon , requiring fourteen trucks to convey them to London . |
| 19 | The charges were made by Derek Johnson of Southern Counties , a silver medal winner at the Olympic Games in 1956 , who told the board 's annual meeting that he wanted to correct the record on how the board came to be wound up in 1987 and its financial affairs taken over by the AAA . |
| 20 | If mind itself has a social origin — if , that is , it arises through the process of communication — and if thinking consists at bottom in the manipulation of generalized attitudes taken over from the social group as a whole , then there can be no question of the social determination , in some sense , of knowledge and thought . |
| 21 | Overall , however , I think that the comparatively small increase in premiums demonstrates a pragmatic response , given the huge losses incurred over past years . |
| 22 | So far the autumn had brought gales soft bright days left over from summer misty still days , windy showery ones and now a fine drizzle . |
| 23 | With the help of a few sure-fire successes brought over from ITV , it gradually established itself , though still subsidized by the sub-scriptions . |
| 24 | They were the original fittings left over from the beginning of the century which the Diocesan Parsonage Committee had yet to get around to modernising . |
| 25 | In the towns , markets contain whole sections given over to stalls with a vast variety of herbs and roots for every conceivable ailment from toothache to tuberculosis . |