Example sentences of "[to-vb] over [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must attempt to innovate over a very broad front using people and structures which are still firmly in place from the ancien régime . |
| 2 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 3 | This book therefore sets out to win over a much wider audience to the beauty and importance of ferns and their allies . |
| 4 | His light-hearted and friendly manner enabled him to put over a very strong sales pitch without a hint of strain . |
| 5 | He managed to put over a fairly complex argument in a brilliantly simple way . ’ |
| 6 | For a while Athelstan lay listening to Cranston 's heavy snoring and fell asleep almost at the very instant when , back in the darkened cemetery outside St Erconwald 's , shadows flitted across the graveyard to crouch over a freshly dug grave . |
| 7 | Inevitably , because the new organisation was to range over an extremely wide area of activity , the provisions of the Treaty of Rome were necessarily complex , running to 248 articles supplemented by 4 annexes , 13 protocols , 4 conventions and 9 declarations . |