Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police procedures change , and even police attitudes change over the years . |
| 2 | Fish tucked into crevices peer out , while crabs scavenge over the reef and probe soft corals for food . |
| 3 | Along the road , another glimpse of the Buller of Buchan : they claim that in stormy weather the waves crash over the top of the Buller , a full two hundred feet . |
| 4 | When waves crash over the reef , the fish swims into a crevice , sticks up its bony trigger and locks itself in place so firmly that neither ocean currents , hungry predators nor inquisitive skin divers can extract it . |
| 5 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 6 | Doubts remain over the fitness of striker Ian Baird and midfielder Derek Ferguson , both of whom are suffering from hamstring injuries . |
| 7 | The verdict brought relief for some neighbours who said they 'd seen too many animals suffer over the years . |
| 8 | Keynesians and monetarists disagree over the shape and stability of the liquidity preference curve ( the demand for money curve ) . |
| 9 | Disputes wage over the issue of whether or not nuclear families today are isolated from their kin . |
| 10 | Legislation to set up an umbrella agency to control pollution in England and Wales has been postponed because government ministries disagree over the scope and scale of the new body . |
| 11 | The sharp reductions in prices to the middle-sized customers that have occurred in the 12 months since the new market system came into effect have naturally been greeted by the beneficiaries with satisfaction , but the strategists worry over the implications for the long- term health of the industry and the economy . |
| 12 | The words roared over a row of Henley Heselteenies and reverberated in the gods . |
| 13 | THE BROODING , lidded eyes look over the coffee cup . |
| 14 | The scale of the structures around them is so huge they look like teams of porters marching over a range of hills to a mine . |
| 15 | SCOTLAND 'S main teaching union yesterday joined parents and education authorities in strongly doubting Government plans to let headteachers take over the running of schools . |
| 16 | I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there . |
| 17 | The sound as they smashed on the upturned bottom was like ‘ a string of freight cars roaring over a trestle ’ . |
| 18 | Nos. 11 and 13 were used for the inspection of the Crystal Palace route and these cars took over the working of the Penge route as soon as the Corporation cars were withdrawn in June 1906 and in the same month , one of them was fitted with Raworth regenerative equipment for a demonstration on Anerley Hill for tramway engineers . |
| 19 | Christian churches throughout Jerusalem , Israel proper and the occupied territories took the unprecedented step of closing in protest for the whole day of April 27 , and the controversy encouraged an improvement in relations between the normally conservative Greek Orthodox community and Palestinian Christians ; the Middle East International of April 27 reported that , soon after the Jews took over the hospice , a Palestinian flag had been raised on a nearby Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 20 | Hazel joined the Company in March 1970 and after a few months took over the role of transport manager , in which capacity she has been responsible for keeping the Company on the move ever since . |
| 21 | The local skaters took over the running of the skate club . |
| 22 | We both push and heave and the man 's shoulders scrape over the rim ; his arms drag up and over as Andy pushes , grunting , feet slipping on the old leaves and soil . |
| 23 | Lack of scattering does not , however , explain the existence of plateaux extending over a range of values of the gate voltage . |
| 24 | The pictures taken over a period of 30 years by late showbusiness cameraman Dezo Hoffman are to be sold by Phillips in London on April 22 . |
| 25 | In many sectors worries exist over the sufficiency of the mutual recognition approach . |
| 26 | Goblins take over the Dwarf watch towers and forts throughout the Mad Dog Pass . |
| 27 | The chapter appears to be based on the famous nursery rhyme about Tweedledum and Tweedledee for at the end the brothers fight over the rattle and also the crow appears . |
| 28 | Slightly slower just so that the words come over a bit clearer yes , so so people can actually take in what you say okay . |
| 29 | One scene among many that captures the ironic mix of commonplace and macabre has two kids battling over a football , just a few feet away from a dead body . |
| 30 | After some 200000 words , there 's a confrontation as various parties struggle over the fate of the galaxy ; despite mental strife , group minds and energy screens this still consists of people sitting down to discuss the big situation . |