Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Screwed-up moody boys come over all alienated in Oxford |
| 2 | Although Microsoft Corp is currently gorging itself on Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms with its Windows desktop environment — and Windows NT will follow — there are still expected to be some rich pickings left over for the gaggle of hopefuls which are working on desktop Unix implementations for the architecture , which will soon include the new P5 80586 iteration when it arrives . |
| 3 | Indenbaum offered him some old pictures to paint over , but Modigliani picked carefully through them so as not to paint over any painting , however unimportant , which showed a hint of talent . |
| 4 | The state is linked to all three components , through a set of institutions which : regulates the sphere of circulation , in order to ensure continued accumulation of surplus value in the sphere of production , but in doing so may promote the interests of certain intra-class groups over others ; oversees the processes of economic , biological and cultural reproduction ; and acts as the arena within which the popular democratic forces struggle over the other two . |
| 5 | Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds . |
| 6 | She watched the next scene ; nurses running towards a hospital , their unbuttoned navy-blue coats flapping over pale uniforms . |
| 7 | If the new motherboard is smaller then you will have some mounting pillars left over — keep them safe . |
| 8 | Though property-disputes were no doubt very often settled informally , through arbitration by senior family-members , for instance , and so have left no trace in the written record , some recorded cases arose over property-claims held or transmitted through women , especially widows . |
| 9 | With the help of a few sure-fire successes brought over from ITV , it gradually established itself , though still subsidized by the sub-scriptions . |
| 10 | But no such social constraints exist over possession of books , and the new reading book Peter had asked to buy — that had to be sacrificed . |
| 11 | The Presidents of Yugoslavia 's six constituent republics took over from the federal presidency the principal role in negotiating Yugoslavia 's future when they began on March 28 a series of weekly summit meetings . |
| 12 | ‘ Sadly there is n't a venue in England yet 1,200 British fans came over to cheer me on at The Hague in Holland recently . ’ |
| 13 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 14 | The dark blue eyes iced over . |
| 15 | Police said three armed men took over a house at Garvagh Road , Dungiven , last night and hijacked a white Transit van which they abandoned with the bomb on board . |
| 16 | Police said three armed men took over a house at Garvagh Road , Dungiven , last night and hijacked a white Transit van which they abandoned with the bomb on board . |
| 17 | And almost immediately she 'd felt the forceful beam of Ross 's hard grey eyes sweeping over her slender figure . |
| 18 | Luxuriant and massive fern ground cover , the visual and aural beauty of the undocumented sacred waters cascading over small waterfalls , contribute to a truly magical atmosphere , a positive retreat from the world above . |
| 19 | From a seat on the verandah of the Silver Swan Hotel , which overlooked the river , I was able to admire the white foamy torrents hurtling over a weir and beneath the bridge , black and sleek as they sped on their way . |
| 20 | Wrapped in white toga-like shammas worn over long white shirts and jodhpurs , they set a fashion which over the years was copied by an increasing number of their subjects . |
| 21 | These new bodies took over the management of some 200,000 civil servants and 8,000 armed forces personnel — around 40 per cent of the civil service . |
| 22 | So far the autumn had brought gales soft bright days left over from summer misty still days , windy showery ones and now a fine drizzle . |
| 23 | ‘ the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice … houses and shops go on for ever , and at the back of them , blotting out all the rest of the world , rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs , at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot . |
| 24 | It would not take much to turn fiercely independent professionals into demoralised , tame civil servants looking over their shoulders rather than at patients . |
| 25 | However since almost all domestic broadcasts spill over borders nearly all EC programming will be subject to the new guidelines . |
| 26 | As the last chapter argued , many feminist psychologists pass over signification , in favour of simpler objects . |
| 27 | This was one of the reasons why they were more prepared than many sedentary peasants to escape over huge distances in the Famine , though of course hunger was the main spur . |
| 28 | The ‘ plot ’ now becomes purely a matter of voice , whereas in such works as Giles Goat-Boy ( 1966 ) , Chimera ( 1972 ) , and in other parts of Lost in the Funhouse Barth draws on ancient mythical patterns to write over . |
| 29 | On Jan. 11 Cambodian officials turned over to the USA remains thought to be those of two US servicemen killed during the Vietnam war . |
| 30 | Majestic snow-capped peaks towered over sweeping flower-strewn plains . |