Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are marginally larger and instead of the pale yellow head-plumes are adorned with bright golden-yellow plumes which meet over the forehead . |
| 2 | The basis for the easy triumphs which had over and again given new nourishment to the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was gone , even if trust in the Führer was still generally strong . |
| 3 | In the hospital the constant retching of the cholera patients made breathing a torment ; the air was alive with flies which crawled over your face and beneath your shirt , covered the food of those who were able to eat , and floated in their tea . |
| 4 | UK Cobol house MicroFocus , Newbury , Berkshire , is teaming with US firm Creative Systems Interfaces Inc to develop a range of communications software : initially MicroFocus will market , under its own name , CSI 's programme-to-programme connectivity packages which run over multiple hardware and software platforms including Windows , AS/400 , MS-DOS ( client ) , OS/2 , AIX and MVS . |
| 5 | He pointed out the sloping white stripes on the walls , whose incline indicated the nearest of the niches providing protection for plate-layers who otherwise might end up under the wheels of one of the expresses which thundered over these rails , bound for famous foreign cities . |
| 6 | The Marking Kit comes in the form of seven transparent overlays which slide over the test papers and allow the markers to see the right and wrong answers at a glance . |
| 7 | It was n't weather for sitting in the garden , but we are fortunate in having windows which look over our own small front garden , and because there is no hedge , beyond to the road . |
| 8 | Wires are colour coded and have labelled fitted plugs which slide over libelled pins on the motherboard . |
| 9 | Some of these will remain to watch over the living ; others enter the bodies of white birds , such as the sulphur-crested cockatoos or white egrets which hover over the Toraja rice-paddies . |
| 10 | Mass strandings usually involve whales which migrate over long distances . |
| 11 | Desiring to flaunt his new found riches he did not want to be seen owning the house which lies behind — a rambling hotchpotch of roof lines and gables which evolved over centuries . |
| 12 | Artists had been hired especially to prepare these culinary masterpieces in the lifelike forms of birds , beasts and cattle , jousting courtiers in full armour , soldiers battling with cross-bows , knights dancing with ladies ; all were vividly depicted in the gilded confections which rose over a yard high from the groaning dining tables . |
| 13 | RIGHT Although head collars which attach over the dog 's nostrils are now widely-available in place of a neck collar and leash , they are not recommended for short-faced breeds such as the bulldog , as shown here . |
| 14 | As I 'm sure you know , your angina pain is caused by a ‘ silting-up ’ of the coronary arteries which flow over your heart , supplying it with vital oxygen and nutrients . |
| 15 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 16 | The commission is advised by the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee and the Historic Buildings Advisory Councils which take over the role previously exercised by the Ancient Monuments Board for England and the Historic Buildings Council for England . |