Example sentences of "[vb -s] over [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roget 's contains over 1000 word types , and for each type different forms of speech and numerous synonyms are offered . |
| 2 | One consequence of this is that the sharp rise in the proportion of young couples in the owner-occupied sector over the post-war period ( and the even greater number who aspire to this sector ) must have had some effect in reinforcing fertility decline in Britain in recent decades although , of course , many developed countries have also experienced declines over this period , so it would be naive to emphasize this ( or indeed any single cause ) as the sole or primary explanation . |
| 3 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
| 4 | He said and what he often does is because he lives over this area . |
| 5 | Lies over that way ? |
| 6 | ‘ Without Roland Garros , French tennis could never have developed in the way it has over recent years and we would never have won the Davis Cup , which has given us all such a tremendous boost . ’ |
| 7 | Shari Dienes has over many decades produced a steady stream of ingeniously constructed found-object assemblages often involving glass , mirrors and boxes . |
| 8 | As distinct from the four week experience of general practice which all of our final year students receive ( with a final objective structured clinical examination ( OSCE ) in general practice ) this university department of general practice has over many years provided generic clinical teaching for the department of medicine . |
| 9 | What DNA has over normal crystals is a means by which its information can be read . |
| 10 | One advantage LanOptics has over other companies is that although Israel is not in the European Community , there are no import duties payable for importing the products into Community countries . |
| 11 | That is , they stress the position of a person as producer rather than consumer , and in particular they emphasise the degree of control a producer has over other workers , and over the production process . |
| 12 | In the UK alone , Mcdonald 's has over 430 restaurants and employs some 26,000 staff . |
| 13 | Explain the advantages this type of tree has over balanced trees , and compare and contrast their performance over as full a range of applications as possible . |
| 14 | Law Society warns over wider role for solicitors |
| 15 | Another dismissed Cabinet minister , Mr Biffen is a frequent critic of Mrs Thatcher 's tone and of the government 's preference for tax cuts over greater spending on the social services . |
| 16 | If we now look at what happens to total product between O and O L 1 units of labour and we can see total product rising at an increasing rate , right , which implies our marginal product positive but increases over that range O to L L 1 right , between the the range O L 1 and O L 3 , right , the total product is rising but at a decreasing rate a decreasing rate that implies that the marginal product is still positive , right , but falling . |
| 17 | The uncanny , oppressive atmosphere still hangs over that spot as it has done for over twenty years . |
| 18 | An air of double-dealing and deceit hangs over those negotiations , as if to suggest that the record of them is in itself a distortion . |
| 19 | Often you will find a horse or pony which never gets over this fear . |
| 20 | As can be seen from the case of Costa v. ENEL [ 1964 ] ECR ( EC ) , within the Community 's legal system Community law prevails over national laws of member states . |
| 21 | Pork is 17% cheaper in real terms than in 1980 and beef , which has experienced the largest price swings over that time , is now 15% lower in real terms . |
| 22 | The arm-chair socialists were too engrossed in scoring advantage points over each other and so paid no attention to the bell-ringer . |
| 23 | Then there is that eminent retired Glasgow University Professor who drives over each year from Bridge of Weir with books for us . |
| 24 | If it crosses over that line , being mad will turn into being a lawsuit . ’ |
| 25 | This ends just before the large A4031 bridge from which the canal emerges to cross over an aqueduct over a minor road with a public house below on the left and then crosses over another aqueduct over the railway main line through Birmingham . |
| 26 | But in terms of , in terms of actual copper , I mean it is actually when the , when the plotter goes over that pad that is gon na be connected . |
| 27 | ‘ A brooding cloud of evil , ’ the commentator had written , ‘ hovers over this dark and magnificent saga from the first page to the astonishing denouement . ’ |
| 28 | MY KING is a pepperpot which falls over each time the train brakes . |
| 29 | See , she leans over this door and reads your palm and you pays her a bit of silver , sixpence say , or a shilling , and she pops it in this little drawer just beside her . |
| 30 | Plain-ended pipes are joined with a plastic sleeve which slips over both ends of pipe and uses rubber sealing rings to make the joint . |