Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] were [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second World War gas masks , tin helmets and posters on treating burns and what to do with incendiary bombs were left over from the days when each factory had a fire watch and some even had a home guard . |
| 2 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 3 | When Mr Wilson was elected to the leadership in 1963 , these doctrinal disputes were smoothed over and the Labour Party entered office in 1964 committed to a more rapid rate of growth , improved welfare benefits , more expenditure on schools , houses , roads and health and one major measure of public ownership — the renationalization of the steel industry . |
| 4 | Surging mergers and acquisitions — £21 billion ( $33 billion ) worth of British companies were taken over in 1989 , compared with £6.3 billion five years earlier . |
| 5 | Around 14 or 15 different concerns were taken over up to 1930 , from Tottenham to Brighton . |
| 6 | Four 15 minute collections were taken over the hour . |
| 7 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 8 | The glass cone at Lemington , although incomplete , is one of few such survivals in Britain , and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the ‘ English nation their handicraft ’ , which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans . |
| 9 | Now , as they shoved their way through the audience , two wooden chairs were knocked over and there were drawn breaths of outrage . |
| 10 | Gradually , as the armies pushed on through France , French airfields were taken over by the RAF and the Americans , and one day Jimmy and Henry were posted to a station near Rennes and that was the last we saw of them . |
| 11 | After the war , outside calls were taken over by the NFS , who occupied a newly erected Town Station . |
| 12 | And if the base of the wall could not be penetrated , movable towers were built which could be wheeled up to attack the wall from without ; in the longer sieges , such as that of Antioch during the First Crusade , fixed towers were erected over against the walls to harry the defenders and enable a watch to be kept on them . |
| 13 | Like the 1920s stock before them , 1938-design vehicles were shipped over to the island to provide a moderately more comfortable service between Ryde and Shanklin . |
| 14 | Vast territories were turned over to growing cash crops and extracting minerals for Western interests . |
| 15 | The Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate evacuated to Oxfordshire where three large houses were taken over in Goring-on-Thames and the school was able to carry on in a ‘ make-do ’ fashion . |
| 16 | Celebrated German electrical groups were taken over — for example AEG by Daimler-Benz and Grundig by a Philips-led consortium . |
| 17 | ‘ Substantial rents were paid over to the Crown Estate during the last five-year period when the industry was losing money . |
| 18 | Preindustrial aristocratic attitudes were carried over into an industrial age . |
| 19 | On resigning as President on Dec. 25 , Gorbachev also resigned as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ; the nuclear codes were handed over to Yeltsin . |
| 20 | This was challenged and , after various proposals were fought over , the 1983 Act laid down detailed principles about consent and procedures for their application . |
| 21 | Antonio ( whose ministerial duties were taken over by his deputy , Edmundo Carlos Alberto ) was the first member of the government to be held in connection with the plot ; he was also a member of the Frelimo central committee . |
| 22 | The four vacant ministries were taken over by former state secretaries as follows : Gunter Halm of the FDP ( Economics ) , Peter Kauffold of the SPD ( Food , Agriculture and Forestry ) , Werner Skowron of the CDU ( Finance ) , and Manfred Walther of the CDU ( Justice ) . |
| 23 | In 1938 , two other dogs were brought over , Arbo v Gaisburg , who was imported by Mrs Simmons , a keen obedience worker and show goer ; and Benno v Kohlerwald by Miss Homan . |