Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gachot then spun after running over some debris from the Patrese/Moreno incident and the subsequent tyre stop cost him time . |
| 2 | MANY PLACES OF INTEREST on and around the Three Peaks can only be reached on foot after many miles of walking over rough ground , but visitors to Leck Fell are favoured by a quiet moorland road that takes them to their objective precisely and , if they travel by car , without effort . |
| 3 | JOHN Major was plunged into another U-turn row last night after he was accused of backtracking over public spending cuts . |
| 4 | Konrad Kolsek , commander of the Fifth Army district , informed Peterle that his command had been " charged with the task of taking over all border crossings and protecting the state borders of the SFRY " . |
| 5 | For the post-Homeric Dionysiac movement that culminated in tragedy supplanted Olympianism to the extent of taking over epic mythology to express its own insights . |
| 6 | However , Mrs Thatcher showed little sign , in comments to the House of Commons , of relenting over early participation in ERM . |
| 7 | The prospect of handing over total responsibility for the care of the most vulnerable people in society to such local authorities was felt by some to be profoundly disquieting . |
| 8 | Left Book Club groups were capable of immense effort on occasion , but they could not reach as wide an audience as the Local Parties and were unsuited to the work of winning over Labour opinion by consistent effort . |
| 9 | At the national executive committee inquest , Roy Hattersley won nods of approval for his argument that an attempt to move towards Liberal Democrat policies , in the hope of winning over Liberal Democrat voters , was politically simplistic . |
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| 11 | ‘ These guys certainly like marching over well-trodden ground , do n't they ? ’ |
| 12 | For the mobile unit , it must be well built and braced to allow for moving over uneven ground , if the birds are in at the time , then the extra weight on the floor will be 204 kg for the 100 bird house and 409 kg for the 200 bird house . |
| 13 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 14 | To Radionics practitioners , their results , in respect to healing over any distance by the conscious transmission of healing energies , have established indisputable proof of the cell 's ability to register and retain information from the environment . |
| 15 | To the north of the area isolated tracts of limestone intrude among the peaty gritstones of the Pennines , adding a sparkle to the sombre landscapes by erupting on the surface in natural features and formations that demand attention : some are easily accessible and are popular objectives attracting many visitors , while others are little known and reached only by walking over rough ground . |
| 16 | In 1604 James I of England published his famous Counterlaste to Tobacco in which he made what was probably the earliest statement on the effects of smoling on gastric secretion : ‘ … and by causing over quick digestion , fill the stomach full of crudites . ’ |