Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are marginally larger and instead of the pale yellow head-plumes are adorned with bright golden-yellow plumes which meet over the forehead . |
| 2 | COMEDY is set to be one of the strong suits of Meridian which takes over the TVS area and its 5.2 million viewers . |
| 3 | When the virus takes over a cell it takes over the master-plan or system of instruction of that cell and the cell is thereafter directed to reproduce itself with the virus already in command . |
| 4 | This routine can be carried out manually without any special equipment , but it is easier and quicker with an edit controller which takes over the operation of both machines from the one keyboard . |
| 5 | In the end , whether applicants have their experiential learning counted in the admissions process , or whether students go on expanding the degree of influence they exercise over the curriculum , will be up to them . |
| 6 | Company For Henry look like the original lunatics who took over the asylum — all shaven heads and murderous expressions . |
| 7 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 8 | I 've got some news on Batty from an article I read over the hols . |
| 9 | Carlton which took over the London weekday franchise from Thames , already owns 20 per cent of Central . |
| 10 | But while Pygmalion ( 1938 ) had been directed by the reliable Asquith , Pascal himself took over the reins on Major Barbara ( 1941 ) . |
| 11 | Denise and Ralph Bulger talk frankly about the joy they feel over the new baby in a magazine article published tomorrow . |
| 12 | Those full-time farmers who handed over the holding to a family member at the age of 65 years were entitled to a larger state pension . |
| 13 | This was privately admitted by senior officers who took over the running of the fund two years ago , and after an inquiry by the Charity Commission more than £3,000 was repaid from regimental funds . |
| 14 | There is a marked difference in colour between the dusty grey-brown of these mounds and the bright , light blue colour they spread over the vineyards . |
| 15 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 16 | At the end of this month I hand over the care of the diocese to Bishop John Crowley . |
| 17 | For Plato in a marvellous metaphor ( Republic 488 ) Demos was a huge , deaf old sea-captain , drugged and overpowered by ignorant riff-raff who take over the wheel themselves — true , except for the word ‘ ignorant ’ . |
| 18 | In 1892 , the Corporation itself took over the running of the tramway , and in the following year the situation was so bad that the current was switched off and the cars pulled by horses . |
| 19 | Thomas Brod , the current owner who took over the business started by his father in 1954 , referred to a lack of passing trade . |
| 20 | The members ' rights of ownership entitle them not only to make decisions personally about how their property is to be used , but also to delegate that power to others , and they are free to stipulate what degree of control they require over the discretion ceded by them . |
| 21 | The really pointless measure is letting councils spend the money they get over the next few years from selling homes and other properties . |
| 22 | The Marking Kit comes in the form of seven transparent overlays which slide over the test papers and allow the markers to see the right and wrong answers at a glance . |
| 23 | This is passed on to a set of inference rules cast in an appropriate non-monotonic logic which operate over the knowledge base to determine an appropriately helpful answer . |
| 24 | According to Vince Aletti , writing in Rolling Stone in 1973 , some of the earliest records played in New York 's underground of ‘ juice bars , after-hours clubs , private lofts open on weekends to members only , floating groups of partygoers who take over the ballrooms of old hotels from midnight to dawn ’ were unusual imports from France and Spain . |
| 25 | DAVID FRENCH is the man who took over the Marriage Guidance Council , renamed it Relate and persuaded the Princess of Wales to become its patron , thus demonstrating that he was both tough and persuasive . |
| 26 | Gordon Welchman in The Hut Six Story tells an amusing yarn about the man who took over the administration of the ‘ highly intelligent female staff ’ of the Decoding Room and the Registration Room , and whom I grew to know quite well : |
| 27 | A group of eight armed civilians who took over the radio station in Antananarivo , the capital , on July 29 surrendered to the armed forces after they failed to win popular support . |
| 28 | The ‘ sloshed ’ friend broke his ankle so as a good turn he took over the driving . |
| 29 | With a trembling hand I turned over the paper which was face down . |
| 30 | Some of these will remain to watch over the living ; others enter the bodies of white birds , such as the sulphur-crested cockatoos or white egrets which hover over the Toraja rice-paddies . |