Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Since then safety work has pushed up that capacity and when the ( New Zealand ) All Blacks play there in three weeks it will be helped to 21,000 by a temporary stand erected over the Tanner Bank wall on the outfield of the adjacent cricket field , adding 2,300 spectators who need not be counted in the official figure . |
2 | Apart from the champagne spilled over the bow , there was plenty consumed in a more conventional fashion as the crew showed off the new boat for the first time . |
3 | Nevertheless , as the outcome if the Eastbourne parliamentary by-election demonstrated , a strong local electoral base developed over a number of years can provide the Liberal Democrats with the opportunity for a sensational , if perhaps transient , victory . |
4 | ‘ Team spirit and research expertise developed over the years would be lost . ’ |
5 | When the wind was in the west a sickly smell floated over the pits . |
6 | Synthetic sympathy floated over the line . |
7 | Finally a sheer mountain of a wave smashed over the raft with a furious roar and swept it further on to the reef away from the pounding terror . |
8 | Lightning played across the front almost continually , and thunder rolled over the catamaran . |
9 | While the race covered approximately 1000 miles , the route varied over the years but maintained Brescia as its base . |
10 | Thunder crackled over the dark , empty street . |
11 | It also remains the case that the Cabinet , as an institution , does not rest on parliamentary authority but rather on practice developed over the centuries . |
12 | Zambia cried , and with lightning speed vaulted over the safety rail of the gallery and began shinning down support poles to the floor . |
13 | Water is pumped through gravel placed over the grid ( or plate ) . |
14 | There was a ragged pause , not a movement as the last of her underwear floated over the side of the bed . |
15 | The Abingdon , Oxfordshire company is pleased with its slow but steady improvement , particularly given the investment made over the year in overseas expansion and new products . |
16 | These tendencies have entailed certain structural problems — the market suffers from excess capacity ( see section 5.3 ) , with many eurobond operations unable to make profits on turnover averaged over the interest rate cycle . |
17 | The body 's symmetrical horns join the neck at the seventeenth fret , leaving the remaining four on the 21-fret neck positioned over the body . |
18 | The car shot over the edge and landed in a sand dune . |
19 | No party gained an absolute majority in the Bihari Assembly , and as of early March uncertainty prevailed over the composition of a coalition ministry . |
20 | This must be equal to the integral over the surface were v is the velocity and — the density ; n is the outward normal to the surface S which enclosed V. By Gauss 's theorem we may write and hence Since this must be true for any volume element we have the equation of continuity The conservation of momentum in continuum mechanics relates the rate of change of the momentum integrated over a volume V to the resultant of the forces on that volume . |
21 | Meanwhile , King Alexander reached-the top of Kinghorn Ness where both rider and horse toppled over the cliff to their deaths . |
22 | Gradually , through compromise , a workable plan will emerge , and this can then be broken down into a programme phased over a number of years . |
23 | Traditionally the tram has drawn its power through a phosphor-bronze trolley wheel mounted over the end of a trolley arm . |
24 | The archdeacon , in traditional role , gave the pope the pallium ( the narrow strip of lamb 's wool worn over the shoulders ) , the symbol of the fullness of power of the pontifical office . |
25 | Little shooting beams of light played over the scene of the sea and the crates of bananas as her lowered eyes struggled to cope with the brightness of the sun that had entered them . |
26 | A fraction of a second later a wash of flame played over the stones where they had been standing . |
27 | A stiff guidewire was then passed through the transjugular biopsy needle into the superior mesenteric vein ( Fig 1 ) , the needle removed , and a catheter introduced over the wire into the portal vein . |
28 | Elsewhere colours are handled with such delicacy that they look like light projected over the surface , a supposition which is emphatically contradicted by the physical texture of the paint . |
29 | A vista of paradisiacal tranquillity opened up beyond the windows of Jacques Devraux 's Citroen B-2 landaulet as the motor car swung over the summit of another of the many rolling hills along the Mandarin Way . |
30 | A buffeting wind rushed over the land , bringing with it salt that clung insistently to Elisabeth 's face . |