Example sentences of "[vb pp] over in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would instantly begin questioning the way the world had been running since their enforced absence , and they would not approve ; whereas those who lay softly beneath the blowing grasses , the quiet slate , had long since turned over in rest and when they woke would wake like children and smile at the sky . |
| 2 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 3 | Cricket now , and while England are getting ready to meet Pakistan in the final of the World Cup , there 's another piece of sporting history being made over in South Africa.Worcestershire 's players are preparing for the first of a five match series there , to help the country back from years of sporting isolation . |
| 4 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 5 | Except that women were deferential to other speakers they would let they would they were they would allow themselves to be walked over in conversation but at the same time you had this stereotype of women who talked too much . |
| 6 | Both Torquil and Vic were taken over in pace during the day by the aerodrome itself . |
| 7 | Early on June 30 a small group of Army officers led by Lt. Mwamba Luchembe succeeded in broadcasting at regular intervals over 90 minutes a message on national radio saying that the Army had taken over in response to the food price rises . |
| 8 | Nearer to their hotel , Fred did an improvisation about the home life of an air hostess who was taken over in bed by her working phrases and asked her husband if he would care to recline and have a beverage . |
| 9 | The Dunbars have shown that whereas harems taken over in combat only last an average of three and a half years , those established by way of two-male team formation last eight and a half . |
| 10 | Removal of the food decreases anxiety in both the mother and child initially and so is reinforcing , but later when the mother realizes that there is a problem the anxiety never resolves and the child is fussed over in order to encourage eating . |
| 11 | Storehouse said Simons was due to be passed over in favour of BhS finance director Graham Rider next year . |
| 12 | Female graduates facing ever-increasing competition were often passed over in favour of their male classmates even when they possessed better qualifications . |
| 13 | Gender relations themselves can get passed over in favour of a purely psychological idea of femininity ; this generates the conflation between humanism and woman-centredness in Miller 's and Gilligan 's work . |
| 14 | Newer materials , such as acrylics , which are being used by an increasing number of artists , are virtually passed over in favour of longer selection on preparing gesso . |
| 15 | Iago 's first stated reason for hating his master is that he has been passed over in favour of ‘ a great arithmetician ’ , a ‘ counter-caster ’ , Michael Cassio ( Othello , I.i.19–31 ) . |
| 16 | The argument was not without precedent : in 1316 Louis X 's daughter Jeanne had been passed over in favour of his brother Philip V , and Philip 's own daughters had been excluded in 1321 in favour of his youngest brother , Charles IV . |
| 17 | When his father raised the question of who should inherit the estate after him , and whether he should choose ‘ heirs general ’ , that is to say , include females in the vexed question — in an earlier generation , four sisters had been passed over in favour of a Boswell nephew — Boswell consulted Johnson repeatedly , before the matter was resolved to Boswell 's general satisfaction . |
| 18 | He entertained hopes of succeeding Denham upon the latter 's death in 1669. but was passed over in favour of Wren , being compensated by the grant of a pension of £300 per year in recognition of ‘ loyal and faithfull service ’ . |
| 19 | My father felt that his lack of poise and connections had led him to being passed over in favor of people of less ability but more social graces . |
| 20 | It was neglect which made liberals out of those passed over in promotion . |
| 21 | The former Vice-President , A. K. M. Nurul Islam , protested at the summary manner of his dismissal on Aug. 13 ( see p. 36852 ) , while M. A. Matin resigned on the same day as Deputy Prime Minister and deputy parliamentary leader claiming that he had been passed over in promotion to the post of Prime Minister . |
| 22 | The belligerence of their message and the violence of their appeal to negation and revolt is now passed over in silence and their works appear as if they were blank sheets to the privileged audiences of the present day . |
| 23 | Works traditionally ascribed to the masters but considered by de Groot to be incorrect , have been omitted , for as the author stated : ‘ it is less unpleasant for the private collector to have his pictures passed over in silence than to have them mentioned and definitely described as false ’ . |
| 24 | The first twelve years of Jesus ' life are passed over in silence . |
| 25 | The Charterhouse , also deep in debt , was passed over in silence . |
| 26 | The logic of such a development was that previous allegiances to Nizan were necessarily passed over in silence . |
| 27 | It is true that the record of service presented in 1781 shows no ship from which it is probable that Mitchell deserted when he was a seaman ; but the years between 1768 and 1777 are passed over in silence . |