Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 2 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 3 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 4 | He has now moved over a mile away from Youngs ' home . |
| 5 | Moreover , the Attorney-General 's contentions are inconsistent with the practice which has now continued over a number of years in cases of judicial review . |
| 6 | Some have bemoaned the fast food outlet that has now taken over the odd corner of the Piazza , but this is the site of the ancient Milanese fiera ( fair ) — the name itself means Square of the Merchants — and doubtless on fair days the Piazza was not the ocean of calm many claim it must have been . |
| 7 | It is more generally accepted , however , that the buoyancy of the continental crust has limited the extent of continental underthrusting and that this is why the more recent Main Boundary Thrust dipping under the Lesser Himalayas has now taken over the role played earlier by the Main Central Thrust ( Fig. 3.22(A) ) . |
| 8 | Agriculture Minister John Gummer has now taken over the negotiating role . |
| 9 | ‘ In a society where the image has virtually taken over every aspect of life , people are tired of having someone else decide what it is they will see . |
| 10 | He notes in passing that RISC has completely taken over the workstation and midrange server markets , is closing in on mainframes and minisupercomputers and is in process of displacing the second-ranking CISC chip , Motorola 's 68k from the high-end embedded market and appears to have a good shot at the emerging personal digital appliance market . |
| 11 | The player can control the direction which the machine moves in , representing the efforts of its crew to steer the thing by leaning precariously to one side or the other , but he has no say over the speed . |
| 12 | The shadow foreign secretary , Dr Jack Cunningham , said : ‘ If the House of Commons has no say over the Maastricht Treaty then the bill itself is a complete charade and a waste of time . |
| 13 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 14 | The next section between Culver Street and Gigant Street and Guilder Lane and Pennyfarthing Street could have seen little change over a long period . |
| 15 | Diana has grown increasingly fit over the years . |
| 16 | It was an uneventful drive to Ravens ' Bridge , past the steamer pier and the small wooden jetties before turning sharply to cross over a shallow , slow-moving stream ; a final view of the calm and sparkling waters of the lake and then they were swinging around into the village 's centre — a wide area off the road painted into parking spaces , a couple of tea rooms , several small hotels and a marine shop with a yard for pleasure boats alongside . |
| 17 | Third , " consumers " — that is , patients , their families , potential patients — have traditionally had least influence over the kind of service they receive . |
| 18 | The other way to find out is to cover each eye in turn ; if there 's a squint , the bad eye will generally move outwards to take over the job of seeing . |
| 19 | Accordingly she wrote to her favourite niece Lilian Baylis , then in South Africa , requesting that she should return home to take over the management of the theatre . |
| 20 | Running for the first time for his new trainer , Mighty Mogul easily brushed aside Kaytak over an extended two miles at Newbury last month . |
| 21 | Nikos 's mind began automatically to turn over the possibilities ; as it always did . |
| 22 | Britain had exercised tight control over the entry of aliens for as long as anyone could remember and , anyway , there had been little contact between Germany and Britain for at least nine months . |
| 23 | While the Camphill Development Project will naturally take up time and energy and demand much sacrifice over the next few years it must not become our only goal . |
| 24 | Wednesday were twice in trouble in the first half — Woods doing well to tip over a Marcus Marin shot , and Nigel Worthington clearing a Witeczek header off the line . |
| 25 | The Grant dynasty is assured , with Mr Sandy having recently handed over the post of managing director to his nephew . |
| 26 | Each eye has only a narrow field of view , but it can be swivelled independently to scan over a hemisphere . |
| 27 | Since the Russian Revolution did not spread to the West , Communists became prisoners of a state with pretensions to a universal mission , and their identification with the foreign policy needs of the Soviet Union represented little advance over the subordination of an older generation of radicals to the interests of the City of London . |
| 28 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |
| 29 | Irish keeper Tommy Wright did well to shove over a fierce shot fired in by Altin Reaklli after just 30 seconds . |
| 30 | By the 1860S , middle-class holiday-makers had effectively taken over the resorts . |