Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Different companies take over , I remember that time we borrowed that four thousand pound . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The tiny scullion squealed and the bucket clattered to the floor , staying upright but letting some of its glutinous contents slop over the side . |
| 12 | He remembered sitting on a wall with a cousin , watching the first German bombers fly over . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At vegetable markets in Kiev old ladies argue over the relative radiation levels found in carrots and cabbage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Periodically , groups of East German soldiers cross over the Wire , laden with cameras to watch and photograph British soldiers shooting on the ranges . |
| 20 | Private contractors take over from them next month , and have said they wo n't take on Tony and George Sabin . |
| 21 | At least it does so in regions of ancient written culture like Europe , where the same names for ethnic groups persist over long periods , even though they may describe quite different and changing social realities . |
| 22 | As they close in on the prey , they thrust their talons forward and the mighty claws take over . |
| 23 | It was envisaged , however , that they would " voluntarily delegate " to the central authorities control over financial , credit and exchange policy , over common customs policy " to ensure protection of the union-wide market " , and over a range of other activities including management of defence industries , transport , energy and telecommunications . |
| 24 | He let his dark eyes drift over her sodden figure , over the T-shirt , now quite transparent , which clung to her wetly , displaying a pair of nipples that stuck out like doorknobs . |
| 25 | Linear chains of oceanic volcanoes , such as the Hawaiian and Society Islands , that occur when lithospheric plates drift over a ‘ hotspot ’ , are now widely thought to be the surface manifestation of mantle plumes , columns of hot rock that rise buoyantly from the deep mantle . |
| 26 | Similar concerns exist over the regulatory systems of control for financial services . |
| 27 | The state is linked to all three components , through a set of institutions which : regulates the sphere of circulation , in order to ensure continued accumulation of surplus value in the sphere of production , but in doing so may promote the interests of certain intra-class groups over others ; oversees the processes of economic , biological and cultural reproduction ; and acts as the arena within which the popular democratic forces struggle over the other two . |
| 28 | St Andrews-born Andy Thomson and his England international colleague , Gary Smith , produced the quickest win of the day , needing just 14 ends to secure a straight sets win over Welsh pair Colin Edwards and Ieuan Terry , who led 3-2 in the first set but never scored again as their opponents recovered to win 7-3 , 7-0 , 7-0 . |
| 29 | They paid the balance in monthly or quarterly payments spread over one , two or three years with interest at the rate of 5 per cent a year . |
| 30 | Warm smiles play over the faces of the grannies as the meenister cavorts . |