Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He switched off his lamp to watch the cold , silver light settle over the church and headstones . |
| 2 | And he said that , since 1965 when the science Research Council took over the telescope , the observatory has been collaborating more closely with university researchers . |
| 3 | It can readily be appreciated that with the rise and fall of the tide the break point migrates over a wide zone of the beach so that the formation of a break point bar is not to be expected . |
| 4 | Once back on the ground the ambulance service took over the medical side of the operation . |
| 5 | Well cos I letting the ships go and they , that was a night time and course I do n't know what happened over , over the argument but anyhow these boatmen they lost their job , they n never been happened since cos the then the Dock Commission took over the erm roping the ships in , come under Ipswich Dock Commission . |
| 6 | Also , short term memory decays over a period of time . |
| 7 | The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 's excess rent allowance operates over a nine-year period . |
| 8 | The first area is cost behaviour analysis : assumptions with respect to how costs vary with , for example , volume of activity , provide the basis for management decision making over a whole range of issues . |
| 9 | I hold my hands over the cooker like I was a boy scout crouched over a camp-fire . |
| 10 | In Ipswich the home help service took over the care of these clients ; in Newham the development officer continued to manage the existing support workers until a new development officer took over ( the health authority agreed to fund a continuation of the project for a further three years ) . |
| 11 | AFTER the opening shot of a cartoon rainbow descending over a stately home , the camera panned in on a well-groomed man with a moustache . |
| 12 | This resulted in a substantial ozone change , with the column ozone reduced over a small area in mid-April to under 200DU , approaching the low values observed in recent years over Antarctica . |
| 13 | Then strain pulp through a plastic sieve or muslin cloth spread over a funnel on to sugar , shaking the demijohn to dissolve it . |
| 14 | Pauline was crowned Festival Queen taking over the honour from Margi Clarke , who held the position last year amid singers , stiltwalkers and members of the British Music Hall Company . |
| 15 | She was dressed in what must have been the formal evening style of 1915 : an indigo silk evening wrap over a slim ivory-coloured dress of some shot material that once more narrowed and ended just above her ankles . |
| 16 | A chimney fascia fits over an island unit or covers an existing chimney . |
| 17 | In the middle of the nineteenth century it was discovered that the highs and lows of sunspot activity recur over a fairly regular cycle of 11 years . |
| 18 | The security officer handed over a bunch of small prints and lit a cigar . |
| 19 | The maximum is reached at one or two atomic spacings ahead of the crack but the distribution is not very peaky and a fairly high tensile stress level exists over a considerable area ahead of the crack . |
| 20 | Massive bedded sulphides and disseminated ‘ feeder ’ veins and stockwork mineralisation occur over a zone 2km long and up to 500m wide . |
| 21 | Fig. 4.14(a) shows the variation of magnet flux linked with the two phase windings of a hybrid motor as the rotor position varies over a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 22 | This mutant stone takes over a nuclear reactor and threatens to blow the reactor up if he and his race are not permanently supplied with ‘ high quality food ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Royal ’ arrest An Australian farmer and his wife who declared their Queensland farm an independent country , calling themselves the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough , have been arrested for defying a court order to hand over the property to receivers . |
| 24 | Another calls the setting up of a clearing house to take over the running of the settlement from the Stock Exchange and a third for a quick move to rolling settlement , under which all share bargains are settle after a set number of days . |
| 25 | If Coleby 's overheads at the development stage go over a certain figure , he may decide that the game 's not worth the candle . |
| 26 | A mess tin of McConachie 's meat and vegetable stew cooked over a petrol fire was a staple for a bunch of hungry men . |
| 27 | Then , a lean index finger hovering over a bell-push , he asked , ‘ Would you like coffee , or lemon tea perhaps ? ’ |
| 28 | Then it was back down to ground level to celebrate over a bottle of champagne with Zoe 's mum , Pat , and husband Joe . |
| 29 | In the Court of Session in Edinburgh yesterday , Lord Morrison refused to order the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service to hand over the name of a donor whose blood allegedly infected a 26-year-old man with HIV . |
| 30 | I could be at home playing with my computerised banking system or working out how my new pocket modem works over a glass or two of fermented Bulgarian Ribena . |