Example sentences of "[vb -s] over [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European leader is a water company , Generale des Eaux , whose solid-waste business in France turns over some $600m a year . |
| 2 | Tears came again to Franca 's eyes , strange tears , tears for everything , for herself as everything , tears out of the terrible cloud of hope and fear that hangs over all things . |
| 3 | It hangs over any thickness of wardrobe rail and fastens with Velcro . |
| 4 | Outside , a camera-strapped tourist haggles before he hands over some notes for a photograph of a mother lost in a dome of ragged blankets and the two children who peep out behind her . |
| 5 | Porter argues that it is also important to distinguish between experience-curve ( learning-by-doing ) effects and reduction of costs through economies of scale , i.e. the reduction achievable in any one period by increasing efficiency through the use of larger production plants , thereby spreading infrastructure costs over more units of output . |
| 6 | Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind . |
| 7 | in their book , discussion ranges over many methodologies in many countries and readers are offered choices . |
| 8 | The purchaser takes over each employee subject to that employee 's accumulated statutory rights . |
| 9 | Is there a risk that the Anonymous Fellowships can become a cult that takes over all life and leaves nothing else worth having ? |
| 10 | Conner Peripherals Inc has now finalised the deal under which Overland Data Inc takes over all manufacturing , marketing and engineering rights to the Cipher 995 9-track and T480 18-track tape drive product lines , as well as all Cipher brand and trademark rights ; the acquisition will immediately double Overland Data 's turnover to a figure running at $24m a year . |
| 11 | However , it is a less expressive image , as it is a less expressive moment , for while he is so wrapped up in the action of taking the shot she can not reveal much more than that furtive concentration that takes over any face in the act of intensive looking . |
| 12 | He takes over this month from Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , who has held the post for two years . |
| 13 | It means that instead of County and District Councils you have one authority that takes over both sets of functions . |
| 14 | At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview . |
| 15 | A long-line jacket with tapered trousers skims over any figure flaws . |
| 16 | It seems that a curtain of gloom falls over some claimants at this stage who abandon their fate to their own written statement of appeal . |
| 17 | Even if a job spreads over several days , the first half hour rate should be charged on the first day and not on the others . |
| 18 | Lexical access in turn produces a list of word matches over some portion of the utterance which are ordered by score . |
| 19 | A rising or a falling tone is quite easy to identify , whether it falls on a single syllable or extends over more syllables in the case of a tonic syllable followed by a tail . |
| 20 | The ‘ homes for heroes ’ debate has received full attention ( Orbach , 1977 ; Swenarton , 1981 ) , but the circumstantial canvas of historical explanation extends over some years . |
| 21 | ‘ Solutions ’ are seen in terms of harsher punishments , a ‘ tougher ’ attitude on the part of social workers , and more legal power and controls over some families . |