Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No party gained an absolute majority in the Bihari Assembly , and as of early March uncertainty prevailed over the composition of a coalition ministry . |
| 2 | ‘ Team spirit and research expertise developed over the years would be lost . ’ |
| 3 | Inset , right : oh , how the design of those programme flyers improved over the years ! |
| 4 | By 1980 Iran 's total production capacity , weakened by reservoir depletion , natural pressure decline and a backlog of work on maintenance programmes accumulated over the preceding years , was assessed at just 4 million b/d . |
| 5 | It is clear that a great deal of ley hunting done over the past 50 years has been hunting chance alignments . |
| 6 | Two rivers enter the loch : the River Inver , coming down amongst trees from the hills behind , has a pleasant path alongside much used by anglers , with fishing platforms built over the rushing waters . |
| 7 | They were now nearer to 550 miles from Malta than the 450 intended , and the Fulmar crew announced over the radio that they could not make it , breaking away to land on the carrier again . |
| 8 | The unexpected reduction in the number of criminal legal aid orders granted over the last few months means that expenditure will in any event be lower than originally expected . |
| 9 | The legal aid scheme developed over the decades as a means of paying for a lawyer in connection with litigation work . |
| 10 | As our skill level increased over the days , so did the challenges . |
| 11 | Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views . |
| 12 | In The Galleria shopping complex built over the A1 , the Hatfield store is the largest Rodier Hommes unit in Europe and is an impressive , airy setting for this singular collection . |
| 13 | Hail and sleet showers swept over the ridge , and the Torridon giants , which rose as distant black battlements when seen from Meallan nan Euan , had changed to seemingly nearer whitewashed walls by the time I 'd dropped and climbed . |
| 14 | How many weekday trains run over the complete Central Wales line ? |
| 15 | A unique collection of Arts and Crafts jewellery assembled over the last twenty years . |
| 16 | ‘ Dover Harbour Board officials checked over the ‘ highly radioactive ’ sand and could not get any reading from it , ’ she added . |
| 17 | While the Blackpool cars ventured over the ex-Company tracks as far as the Cabin , soon after the Gynn junction was completed , it was not until 1926 that double-deckers reached Bispham . |
| 18 | For years the wine trade enthused over the perfumed richness of Gewurztraminer , the exquisite grapeyness of Muscat d'Alsace , the subtle , honeyed power of Tokay-Pinot Gris and the steely , penetrating zest of Riesling . |
| 19 | Extra-judicial killings by the security forces increased over the same period . |
| 20 | Air France has reduced costs , with 3,000 job cuts planned over the next two years and the sale of its headquarters . |
| 21 | The UK 's leading environmental groups are maintaining levels of support through the recession , but the rapid rate of membership growth experienced over the past few years has slackened . |
| 22 | Traditionally the tram has drawn its power through a phosphor-bronze trolley wheel mounted over the end of a trolley arm . |
| 23 | Distances s measured over the surface between a pair of points whose coordinate separations are x and y will be given by Pythagoras ' theorem |
| 24 | As water levels changed over the years some caves became dry , while others are still being made larger by the effect of underground streams , and some are still completely waterlogged . |
| 25 | At first the companions think they have stumbled across a dead ship ; the crew lies slumped over the flight deck controls , their heartbeats non-existent . |
| 26 | The economic programme presented in February , which relaxed the monetarist controls implemented over the previous two years and sought to lift the economy out of recession by investing in state enterprises and boosting imports [ see pp. 38774-75 ] , was rejected by the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) on March 5 by 171 votes to 138 with 38 abstentions . |
| 27 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 28 | Thus ‘ pen ’ is the first finger of one hand drawn across the palm of the other , a beckoning with the whole hand or finger ends is ‘ gim me ’ , slapping the thigh is ‘ dog ’ , and an index finger drawn over the back of the hand is ‘ tickle ’ ( Walker 1983 : 355 ) . |
| 29 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |
| 30 | A vista of paradisiacal tranquillity opened up beyond the windows of Jacques Devraux 's Citroen B-2 landaulet as the motor car swung over the summit of another of the many rolling hills along the Mandarin Way . |