Example sentences of "[verb] over [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local nature of much public library censorship was often an argument for saying that these were just local storms caused by local byelaws and local pressure and could be allowed to pass over without much fuss or comment . |
| 2 | Iraq , a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty , appears to have managed to divert nuclear materials to bomb-making despite regular safeguard inspections , but the treaty has been a success on the whole — as indeed has been the complex structure of hot-line , surveillance and negotiation which has ensured that the East-West ‘ balance of terror ’ never tipped over into nuclear war : |
| 3 | Stanley 's , moving the ball wide with crisp facility , stretched their lead to 18-0 when Rees broke down the left and crashed over with muscular help from Watkinson . |
| 4 | I hurry over in that direction . |
| 5 | TELL your friends that you are going to the Cape Verde Islands and , in all probability , their eyes will glaze over for several seconds while they frantically try to recall their long-forgotten school geography . |
| 6 | The medical model of militarized efficiency was carried over into key areas of civil society . |
| 7 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 8 | In terms of the revenue output it 's a hundred and forty three thousand below the estimates and it was agreed that any variations would be carried over into next year . |
| 9 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |
| 10 | All that is learnt must be carried over into real-life situations , so training of parents is very important ( see section on ‘ Groups in the Institute ’ ) . |
| 11 | There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place . |
| 12 | With bad blood carried over from last year 's clash between the two sides which saw Eric Rush retire from the fray with a broken wrist , the portents were not good . |
| 13 | Ball missed the opening three matches of the season because of a suspension carried over from last season , and then served a two match ban last month for reaching 21 points . |
| 14 | Misty green valleys , shot through with rushing vodka-clear rivers ; emerald rice-paddies fringed with golden stands of bamboo , and primary forest towered over by soaring escarpments of granite . |
| 15 | A well-flighted right wing cross by Paul Raynor seemed perfect for the unmarked 6ft 4in player , but he headed over from seven yards . |
| 16 | Wilkinson headed over after two minutes and at the other end Stephen Pears punched out a Neil Webb free-kick for Denis Irwin to volley wide . |
| 17 | After Rideout 's dismissal , Everton were under siege as Gary Penrice and Sinton appeared to have opened the floodgates — which Les Ferdinand promptly shut again by blasting over from two yards . |
| 18 | Though proceedings occasionally teeter over into winsome cuteness ( witness the sugary pap of ‘ Sun ’ and ‘ Helicopter People ’ ) , most of tonight 's set sounds like the work of people with a sound grasp of pop virtues . |
| 19 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 20 | I said you were mad to come over at this time . |
| 21 | " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons . |
| 22 | No praise can be too high for their playing , which is vivacious , brimming over with good humour , and highly expressive in the quieter dances . |
| 23 | Older children might prefer the pirate 's treasure chest brimming over with stolen loot , or the sophisticated speed cruiser and space rocket . |
| 24 | By the end of the day , Juliana was brimming over with new-found confidence . |
| 25 | Trinity hit back with a 34th-minute try from David Jones and substitute Paul Round charged over for another touchdown on the hour . |
| 26 | He imagined gravel being sifted , all the particles , the minute stones , being picked over by some policeman whose job it was to do that , the tiny flints laid in one tray , the wood fragments in another , and then , in a third , the shot . |
| 27 | ( Shreds of these hoards can now be picked over in provincial brocante shops , brave remnants of another , more confident age . ) |
| 28 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 29 | 16 NOT all Americans have been won over by Super Mario . |
| 30 | The most active elements of the intelligentsia are won over by personal privileges to the prevailing ideology as well as being subject to the prevalent intellectual control while the peasants are tied to the land by economic hardship imposed through short-term , small-unit landholding contracts ( such as sharecropping ) , which discourage capital investment . |