Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Department of Transport awarded contracts to firms to develop electronics that would identify cars passing over buried toll ‘ gates ’ . |
| 2 | Some have romantic visions of crouched and muffled figures dragging log-laden sledges through a savage landscape of snow and ice ; frost-bearded Vikings with massive axes , round great fires of pine logs ; or raw-boned Northerners squatting over faggot-heated porridge pots . |
| 3 | University loses arts funding over proposed sale |
| 4 | Imagine two animals fighting over some resource . |
| 5 | Conservationists are unhappy about the prospect of conifer plantations taking over more wilderness areas of Britain . |
| 6 | In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press . |
| 7 | That belief took a severe knock with the screening of Cutting Edge , which showed a pupil beheading a rabbit ( said later to have myxomatosis ) , boys prowling around with weapons , and girls fighting over stolen make-up . |
| 8 | But ‘ a summers rambling over rugged ground ( of the lakes ) would be more beneficial than all the waters in the universe . ’ |
| 9 | Union issues warning over civil service jobs |
| 10 | There was a shout from outside the wire and the sound of heavy boots running over packed snow . |
| 11 | On Dec. 31 , 1989 , Aquino announced sweeping Cabinet changes in an attempt to deal with some of the charges made against her by the rebel soldiers , with nine new appointees taking over key government posts [ see p. 37121 ] . |
| 12 | At March 1979 the number of in-patients waiting over one year was 185,195 . |