Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] over [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |
| 2 | Of course , what constitutes murder , rape , robbery , assault , and other forms of serious crime varies over historical periods and between cultural groups , as the changes and contradictions within and between powerful interest groups , and the shifting alliances of the less powerful bring about slight and not-so-slight tilts of society 's power axis ( Chambliss 1981 ) . |
| 3 | The machine flies over friendly territory , but its huge side-looking radar can pick out enemy ground targets up to 200 miles away , allowing it to direct air , artillery or missile strikes against them . |
| 4 | O'Hare , a 21-year-old from Newry , was the hero of Coleraine 's penalty shoot-out wins over big guns Portadown and Glentoran in the earlier rounds . |
| 5 | But if actual proof of unfortunate outcome confirms an underlying fear , which previously they may have repressed well , unconscious panic wins over rational argument . |
| 6 | As the vehicle passes over successive toll points , charges will clock up on the vehicle 's account , rather like a telephone bill . |
| 7 | And getting out : Forest freeminer quits over imported coal . |
| 8 | Boss quits over neo-Nazi flag |
| 9 | Often most benefit is gained if the teacher goes over key points with the group afterwards to check on understanding . |
| 10 | Bar-Hillel [ 1967 ] argues for the superiority of meaning postulates over semantic markers due to their ability to represent arguments of lexical items , which are essential for expressing the relation between the meanings of words like ’ buy ’ and ’ sell ’ : for any x , y , z ( x sells y to z if and only if z buys y from x ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Vickers dismisses job fears over lost tank order |
| 13 | The purchaser takes over each employee subject to that employee 's accumulated statutory rights . |
| 14 | A long-line jacket with tapered trousers skims over any figure flaws . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hosepipe bans over recent summers have meant keeping watering to a minimum — and digging out the old watering can . |
| 17 | AT&T Co has plunged into the desktop personal computer videoconferencing business with the launch of its Visual Solutions product line , committing that the products and services for business will be based on globally accepted standards for video calls over digital phone lines — under the framework of the Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy , companies worldwide have agreed the Px64 series of standards for video transmission over digital phone lines . |
| 18 | Mud flies over New Age festival . |
| 19 | Typing in overtype mode writes over existing text , deleting it in the process . |
| 20 | FOLLOWING the re-organisation and integration of Johnson Brothers , Wedgwood U.K. sales director Paul Hutchinson takes over full sales responsibility for Johnson Brothers . |
| 21 | Long-wave theories are concerned with how the economy fluctuates over long time periods . |
| 22 | In a key speech to the Blackpool conference , Mr Patten announced the immediate withdrawal of proposals to relax planning controls over rural land use . |
| 23 | The relaxation of planning controls over minor developments involves three changes . |
| 24 | The European leader is a water company , Generale des Eaux , whose solid-waste business in France turns over some $600m a year . |
| 25 | The EP rapporteur Geoffrey Hoon ( UK , Labour ) explained : ‘ The collection and processing of data permeates the daily life of almost everyone in the European Community , concern grows over possible abuses . |
| 26 | In these situations , fitted bedroom furniture triumphs over free standing as it 's custom-built , utilizing every available inch of space , from floor to ceiling and it can be made to fit any bedroom , no matter what its shape . |
| 27 | Lexical access in turn produces a list of word matches over some portion of the utterance which are ordered by score . |
| 28 | The trade union reforms , the break with the ‘ social partners ’ approach in running the economy , the abolition of a tier of local government , the imposition of far-reaching central government controls over local government finance and policies and then the replacement of household rates by the community charge , and the large-scale privatization , all mark a major departure from the conventions of post-war politics . |
| 29 | Kentucky Fried Chicken , the fastfood chain with almost 300 outlets in the UK , is considering changing its name to KFC in response to health concerns over fried food . |
| 30 | The move comes after health scares over chemical decaffeination . |