Example sentences of "[to-vb] over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 2 | The new outlook we have been outlining as coming to stand over against Christian orthodoxy was by no means necessarily irreligious or anti-religious . |
| 3 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
| 4 | Indeed , animation in the strict stop-motion sense begins to cross over with mechanical or electronic animation shot as , or with , live action , so no sharp distinction is made here . |
| 5 | The rats on the wharf behaved strangely , creeping to the edge of the planking , and trying to cross over from dry land to the boats . |
| 6 | Also encouraging has been the fact that a row with America over government procurement , which threatened to spill over into tit-for-tat sanctions , was averted at the last minute . |
| 7 | The difficulty with this result is that advertising is usually only one part of a marketing strategy , and that agreements on advertising are likely to spill over into other elements of that strategy including prices . |
| 8 | Alternatively the dynamic wealth terms may arise from either the absence of a full interdependent model which would permit disequilibrium in one asset to spill over into other assets or from some otherwise omitted dynamic effects arising from the use of a US wealth measure as a proxy for the true worldwide measure . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the survey concluded that ‘ a very considerable qualitative and quantitative momentum ’ had been built up in the training of part-time teachers for general adult education in the local authority sector and that this was beginning to spill over into vocational teaching . |
| 10 | Human relationships can not usually be kept within neat bounds by both partners , but tend to spill over in deep emotions of pain and anger . |
| 11 | In addition Hungary was to switch over to hard-currency trading with all East European partners by 1991 , and between 1992 and 1994 the forint was to be made partially convertible . |
| 12 | His telegraph then went on " This afternoon General Robertson , Chief Administrative Officer AFHQ requested us to concur in a draft telegram to CG British Eighth Army authorising him to turn over 28,000 Cossacks ( see our 797 of October 16 , 1944 Midnight ) , including women and children to Marshal Tolbukhin , and further instructing him to turn over to Yugoslav Partisans a large number of dissident Yugoslav troops with exception of Chetniks . " |
| 13 | The first try came after a period of sustained pressure , when Mal Meninga had the strength to force over from close range . |
| 14 | Lou Macari is now expected to take over at Celtic on Wednesday as the two parties continue to discuss Macari 's wish to nominate his own assistant . |
| 15 | The Newcastle-based steel fabricator and erector contracted to carry out the steelwork went into receivership early in the operation but fortunately Bone , Connel & Baxters of Motherwell was able to take over at short notice and , says Alan Muir , ‘ did a great job ’ . |
| 16 | Vice-President Itamar Franco , 61 , a veteran politician but relatively unknown and untouched by the corruption scandal , was set to take over as interim President in early October . |
| 17 | But the battle to take over as Labour leader will become the focus for a potentially acrimonious debate between the two wings of the party over the cause of the defeat . |
| 18 | By doing so , reasoned the party 's elderly barons , the way would be clear for a baron to take over as prime minister come the party 's annual meeting in October ( four of the party 's five factional bosses were caught taking payoffs from Recruit ) . |
| 19 | Fortunately the Governor seized the initiative and the same day called on Nu to take over as prime Minister . |
| 20 | Meanwhile his old tutor , Frederick Temple , had resigned and Balliol invited Smith to take over as mathematical lecturer . |
| 21 | It transpired that Peter Carrington and his Foreign Office team of Humphrey Atkins and Richard Luce had all resigned , and a little later it was announced that Francis Pym was to take over as Foreign Secretary . |
| 22 | Apart from Mr Patten , four other ministers have lost their Cabinet posts : former Home Secretary Kenneth Baker , who is believed to have refused an offer to take over as Welsh Secretary ; Tom King from Defence , who asked for a break from office four months ago ; Peter Brooke from Northern Ireland ; and Lord Waddington , former leader of the Lords . |
| 23 | But a Welsh Water official gave an assurance that supplies were safe , and he said extra pumps were being brought in to take over from giant pumps which had been put out of action by an electrical failure during the floods . |
| 24 | Charity was not sufficient or evenly enough distributed to take over from out-door relief . |
| 25 | Critics are demanding changes to 2 important pieces of legislation … the Children Act of 1989 and the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 , which forced the police to hand over to social services all offenders under the age of 15 once they 've been arrested and charged . |
| 26 | A council spokesman said : ‘ All employees are issued with identity cards which they are always happy to hand over for close inspection . |