Example sentences of "[vb base] over [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shadow foreign secretary , Dr Jack Cunningham , said : ‘ If the House of Commons has no say over the Maastricht Treaty then the bill itself is a complete charade and a waste of time . |
| 2 | Crumble over the feta cheese . |
| 3 | This feature encourages water that finds its way aboard over the weatherside to slip round behind the after coaming and exit over the lee quarter . |
| 4 | But replacing the still popular linked rectangular sink and drainer that fit over a base unit will mean fitting a new worksurface , and perhaps even a new base unit as well — a much more difficult task . |
| 5 | Do not go into cafés , browse in cake shops , linger over the chocolate counter , or bake a batch of biscuits . |
| 6 | Men who think with pride of themselves as gourmets , relish rare vintages and affectedly enthuse over a Romani Conti or other costly wine . |
| 7 | Dampen the edge of the buckram , bring over the seam allowance of the band and press it on to the dampened edge , notching out excess fabric on inward curves . |
| 8 | My stomach turned when I heard our ‘ Number One , ’ Cmdr Boord , announce over the broadcast system : ‘ We are to escort a convoy to Murmansk . |
| 9 | Go left through the trees and climb over a ladder stile . |
| 10 | The river 's edge , where Virgil 's ghosts held out their arms in longing for the farther shore , and Dante , as a living man , was refused passage by the ferryman , the few planks that mark the meeting point of land and water , there , surely , is a place to stop and reflect , even if , as Father Watson did , you stumble over a ten-gallon tin of creosote . |
| 11 | Place a brioche heart or circle on top of each one , sift over the icing sugar , if using , and serve immediately . |
| 12 | THE BROODING , lidded eyes look over the coffee cup . |
| 13 | May 12 Baker and Bessmertnykh meet over a working dinner in Cairo in what the Financial Times describes as an " against-the-odds attempt to " kick start " the … peace process " . |
| 14 | In the Odonata the endosternites are paired , and are inclined so far inwards , towards the median line , that they almost meet over the nerve cord . |
| 15 | Their most important intended victim escaped : General Haris Nasution , chief of staff ( retired in 1952 , then recalled ) managed to escape from his house and jump over the garden wall amid a hail of shots . |
| 16 | The biggest question marks hang over the United States operation , Bancorp , and investment bank County NatWest . |
| 17 | In the Chouf now , the Druze holy colours hang over the militia checkpoints . |
| 18 | While a kettle boiled she could set a table , light a fire , and watch over a cooking breakfast . |
| 19 | She was more than well acquainted with Lubor 's proclivity to see an invitation to grow amorous where there was none , though since he could n't do more than verbally flirt over the dinner table she could n't see any harm in accepting . |
| 20 | For example , the speech we hear over a telephone line is perfectly understandable . |
| 21 | Then , if we get lucky we drive over the Luxembourg frontier into Germany , head south down the Rhine for the Black Forest . |
| 22 | If you pass over a tab stop as you move to the left or right , that tab stop will be deleted |
| 23 | I pass over the Stone Bridge virtually every day and the view is one of the utmost squalor . |
| 24 | Finally , colour the desiccated coconut blue or green and scatter over the cake drum . |
| 25 | The government 's concern has led it to exert fairly direct , although informal , control over the pay bargaining process . |
| 26 | National armaments should be limited by mutual agreement , and the pressures of the military-industrial complex regulated by nationalization of armaments firms and control over the arms trade . |
| 27 | The exceptional importance of the legislature in the American system is provided for by a constitution that makes Congress the ‘ first ’ branch of government ; endows it with the legislative power ; gives it control over the purse strings ; allows it a considerable role in the making of foreign policy ; and makes senior executive appointments subject to its approval . |
| 28 | He takes as his criteria for class membership : firstly , the position of individuals in the process of production and their mode of sharing in the distribution of the product ; secondly , control over the labour power of others and thirdly , mode of remuneration . |
| 29 | This is passed on to a set of inference rules cast in an appropriate non-monotonic logic which operate over the knowledge base to determine an appropriately helpful answer . |
| 30 | Therefore , any remaining lead of the futures price over the spot price is due to either new information being reflected first in the futures market ( price discovery ) , or to recording and reporting lags for the index . |