Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surge of multimedia developments continues apace , and yesterday , Digital Equipment Corp joined forces with start-up LANCity Corp , Andover , Massachusetts to announce a system for enabling high-speed multimedia data networking over ordinary cable television lines , putting implementers in direct competition with local phone companies . |
| 2 | The Department of Transport awarded contracts to firms to develop electronics that would identify cars passing over buried toll ‘ gates ’ . |
| 3 | Our driver gave a cry and swung off in pursuit , the jeep bouncing over rough ground until the headlights reflected a pair of amber eyes , then another and another . |
| 4 | Some have romantic visions of crouched and muffled figures dragging log-laden sledges through a savage landscape of snow and ice ; frost-bearded Vikings with massive axes , round great fires of pine logs ; or raw-boned Northerners squatting over faggot-heated porridge pots . |
| 5 | And Jed took another look around and made a face that suggested mild indifference lying over mild disapproval . |
| 6 | University loses arts funding over proposed sale |
| 7 | Imagine two animals fighting over some resource . |
| 8 | Go south descending over rocky terrain at first to reach a track heading south-west along a ridge to reach Craig Llugwy spur ( 678 632 ) . |
| 9 | Conservationists are unhappy about the prospect of conifer plantations taking over more wilderness areas of Britain . |
| 10 | In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press . |
| 11 | The Vibram soles gave plenty of grip , wet and dry , and the boots have become comfortable friends for distance walking over reasonable terrain . |
| 12 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 13 | When he came back he was carrying the calf , his arms encompassing all four legs , so the hooves came together in a bunch , with the rump and tail protruding over one forearm and the shoulders and chest over the other . |
| 14 | There were a series of confrontations with authorities , like Liverpool , faced with threats of central government taking over direct control of services . |
| 15 | That belief took a severe knock with the screening of Cutting Edge , which showed a pupil beheading a rabbit ( said later to have myxomatosis ) , boys prowling around with weapons , and girls fighting over stolen make-up . |
| 16 | But she smiled to herself , as she thought again of the handsome Spaniard with those black eyes full of a sense of fun and adventure , that mane of glossy hair falling over one eye — and his dark brown velvet voice , which had melted her heart a lot more than she admitted to Rosie . |
| 17 | But ‘ a summers rambling over rugged ground ( of the lakes ) would be more beneficial than all the waters in the universe . ’ |
| 18 | When they had no work , Which was often , they 'd spend all afternoon sitting over one coffee or one coke trying to write plays . |
| 19 | In addition , the current recession may have diverted the union response towards a defensive approach , while undermining the ability of unions to gain substantial increases in their involvement in decision making over new technology areas which managers may defend as their own prerogative . |
| 20 | While there are striking similarities between the two documents regarding the need to promote change while smoothing the process of adaptation , the 1979 report goes beyond its predecessor when it argues for trade union involvement in the decision making over technological change at an early stage through collective bargaining . |
| 21 | Union issues warning over civil service jobs |
| 22 | Her hat was a stained velvet Rembrandt , fruit lurching over one ear , and her dark glasses made her a parody of Bette Davis 's cameo wicked eccentrics . |
| 23 | There was a shout from outside the wire and the sound of heavy boots running over packed snow . |
| 24 | On Dec. 31 , 1989 , Aquino announced sweeping Cabinet changes in an attempt to deal with some of the charges made against her by the rebel soldiers , with nine new appointees taking over key government posts [ see p. 37121 ] . |
| 25 | A reverse takeover offer is , at first sight , curious , because it involves one company taking over another company with much larger resources . |
| 26 | At March 1979 the number of in-patients waiting over one year was 185,195 . |