Example sentences of "[vb -s] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His output is prodigious and it springs from the unbending control he exercises over every aspect of his life . |
| 2 | When the accompanying stream drops over a ledge , it is a signal to retreat and return to daylight . |
| 3 | Every golfer in the world experiences that awful feeling of helplessness when he stands over a putt and knows that he has not the slightest chance of getting the ball near the hole , let alone into it . |
| 4 | An agreement may be for one song , or for everything a musician writes over a number of years . |
| 5 | WITHIN THE first five minutes of Phallus In Wonderland , a surly youth vomits over a tramp , has a hook shoved through the back of his head and is transported off to a distant planet to meet cartoon barbarian grunge rockers GWAR . |
| 6 | The raster-coded image , in its simplest form , has the value ‘ 1 ’ wherever the cell lies over a line and the value ‘ O ’ otherwise . |
| 7 | So instead , and still twenty-four , Gustave sits over a map with Du Camp and plans a monster journey to Asia . |
| 8 | Now it seems that the disease builds over a period of years . |
| 9 | A chimney fascia fits over an island unit or covers an existing chimney . |
| 10 | They may go down the field below the cave to a gate on the Kingsdale road which , followed to the left , goes over a rise to Deepdale and Dent , and to the right leads down the valley to the more probable destination of Ingleton which has accommodation , shops , refreshments and bus services . |
| 11 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 12 | If the water coming out of taps ( mainly hot ones ) slows over a period of time , the problem is likely to be scale in the pipes — especially if you have a direct hot water system ( see page 48 ) . |
| 13 | The city parasites were also massing as thick as flies over a turd : smooth-skinned lads , cloak-twitchers , quacks , night wanderers , mimes and petty sorcerers . |
| 14 | Where rifting occurs over a mantle plume the sub-lithospheric mantle will be up to 200°C hotter than normal and large quantities of magma will be generated . |
| 15 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
| 16 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 17 | Guitarist Robbin Crosby sulks over an equipment failure . |
| 18 | Guitarist Robbin Crosby sulks over an equipment failure . |
| 19 | There 's a purity to ‘ Nevermind ’ that all but defies description , it washes over every tune , every note even . |
| 20 | With this type of valve ( of which the Garston or BRS valve is the best known ) , there is no moving piston — rather a rubber diaphragm which closes over a nylon seating with the last movement of the float arm . |
| 21 | ODDEST PICTURE : A framed photograph of model Linda Lusardi 's bottom hangs over a chest of drawers in her peaches-and-cream bedroom , which comes complete with an ornate brass ceiling fan . |
| 22 | PA Aftermath : a house in Hemsby , Norfolk , hangs over a cliff edge yesterday after flooding washed away its foundations |
| 23 | Martin Hardie wrote : ‘ Where all the plates are so excellent , it seems unfair to make distinctions , but where Daniell especially excels is in suggesting the warm haze that hangs over a summer sea , or sunlight playing on the roofs of a fishing village and the walls of its harbour . |
| 24 | If a unidirectional wind blows over a cliff face ( Fig . |
| 25 | Were I to meet any of you at the golf club or the Mayor 's banquet I am sure we could talk as equals over a glass of sherry and a snipe sandwich . |
| 26 | It is recommended that their training stretches over a period of about 15 months from the time that they take up their post . |
| 27 | Fig. 4.14(a) shows the variation of magnet flux linked with the two phase windings of a hybrid motor as the rotor position varies over a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 28 | We are thus faced with the following problem : what organization in the early sea-urchin embryo ensures that the proportions of cells that form the skeleton , the gut , and the surface layers , will be the same in embryos whose cells can be quite extensively rearranged and whose size varies over a factor of eightfold ? |
| 29 | Direct investment : the inflow of foreign investment directly into UK enterprises ( as when Ford , a UK company , builds a new plant in the UK or takes over a UK firm ) and the investment of British firms in foreign plants |
| 30 | When a coalition of male lions successfully takes over a harem of females , the first thing the males do is to kill all the young lion cubs in the pride . |