Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were more or less open tides the high tides used to come over and down here , it all used . |
| 2 | A regional tier of government in the English regions will take over many powers now exercised nationally , such as regional economic planning and transport . |
| 3 | In practice this often meant that immature minds would take over Leavis 's own evaluations without relating them to their own experience of literature , resulting in the diffusion of callow or inept judgements that has been condemned from the right by C. S. Lewis and from the left by Catherine Belsey . |
| 4 | Some observers predict that ground-based fibre-optic systems may take over many of the point-to-point telecommunications tasks performed by satellites . |
| 5 | there 's a big gang of these big black and white things coming over so we 're giving the and then a big gang from this side 'd come over and then all the white swans 'd come over , god ! |
| 6 | It was later announced by the government that the Defence Ministry would designate locations where all private armies should hand over their weapons . |
| 7 | The accompaniment must paint the general background mood of the piece , and rhythmic designs can persist over big areas and only break off if there is a very definite change of mood or subject matter . |
| 8 | Ceramic materials may take over the role of cobalt in magnets , a move stimulated by the political upheavals in Zaire in 1978 , which forced up the price of the metal and made many manufacturers look for substitutes . |
| 9 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
| 10 | Otherwise Droopy Drawers will take over . ’ |
| 11 | The solitary adults may wander over vaguely defined home ranges , or they may restrict themselves to clearly defined and defended territories . |
| 12 | Maybe the big boys 'll take over . |
| 13 | The personal wine collection of fraudster Robert Maxwell goes under the hammer on Wednesday and 237 cases of rare wines should fetch over Pounds 40,000 . |
| 14 | RECYCLED PAPER It is estimated that certain plastics will take over 400 years to disintegrate , so that is why we are introducing more recyclable plastic , which can be melted down and re-used . |
| 15 | So for a sufficiently large number of matter particles , gravitational forces can dominate over all other forces . |
| 16 | Usually there will be some redundancy in the system so that other mechanisms can take over . |
| 17 | There is , however , a different way in which spinning objects can turn over . |
| 18 | Following the Health and Safety ( Emissions into the Atmosphere ) Regulations 1983 , referred to earlier it is expected that local authorities will take over the responsibility for prosecuting persons for such offences , as Regulation 7 repeals s.78(3) of the 1974 Act which had required proceedings to be instituted by an inspector appointed under s. 19 of the Health and Safety at Work , etc . |