Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] over [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nature has been banished , technology and its concomitant values reign over a harshly masculine world . |
| 2 | It was Fred Wilton who devised the theory that if carp were offered HNV baits over a long enough period , i.e. through extensive pre-baiting , they would eventually recognise that they were good for them , and seek out these baits in preference to low protein types such as bread , worms , potatoes or , indeed , even natural food . |
| 3 | Grammatical change occurs over a much longer time scale than lexical change . |
| 4 | Stretching frequencies vary over a fairly narrow range in a set of related compounds . |
| 5 | Her ankles turned over a little on the high heels . |
| 6 | The preliminaries on this occasion extended over a rather lengthy period and so the 150 or so guests were in pretty good form when we eventually sat down to one of the best ‘ function type ’ meals that I have ever enjoyed . |
| 7 | Related species occur over a much wider area around the margin of North America and in Europe . |
| 8 | In the middle of the nineteenth century it was discovered that the highs and lows of sunspot activity recur over a fairly regular cycle of 11 years . |
| 9 | Note , however , that most species in tropical forests live over a far smaller area — that is have a far smaller range , then the average species in temperate regions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The paragraphs which now follow single out some of the more important , more specialised , local collections , and particularly those which are likely to be of value to researchers working over a fairly wide geographical area , or concentrating on a single subject . |
| 12 | The only question marks hang over the slightly corny lyrical content of some of his compositions and over whether he 's maybe working a little too closely to the Gavin Friday scheme of things . |
| 13 | Khalid bin Muhammad al-Anqari took over the hitherto vacant portfolio of Higher Education , and was replaced as Minister for Municipal and Rural Affairs by Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah bin Hasan al-Shaikh . |
| 14 | The development which may legitimately — or hopefully — be expected by owners is in fact spread over a far larger area than is likely to be developed . |
| 15 | For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history . |