Example sentences of "[vb -s] over the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the Tarangire Lodge looks over the flamingo-edged waters of the Tarangire River and boasts walk-in tents , proper beds and mosquito-netted windows . |
| 2 | Nowhere is this more impressive than on the Dean Bridge at sunset , when one looks over the deep valley of the Water of Leith and sees the glistening windows of Moray Place and Ainslie Place . |
| 3 | One wall of windows looks over the rusted iron fence of an empty lot , the other on the junk stalls of Finsbury 's Exmouth Market , with their cracked plimsolls and burned-out kettles . |
| 4 | These wagons had a different coupling system over in the island ; the sound of I O M shunting is quite different from mainland shunting , you do n't get the clunk of the links on a loose-coupled wagon but a delayed clank as the ‘ chopper ’ of one drops over the buffing plate of another . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most potent advantage for adult education is that it sees itself catering for developing learning needs over the whole adult age range . |
| 6 | The placidity of a late August day lingers over the Swiss Alps . |
| 7 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 8 | A headstone of Thatcherite granite stands over the ministerial grave of that consensual Tory , Francis Pym — in real life , still happily with us in the House of Lords . |
| 9 | From here the path descends to the top of Summerhouse Crag which stands over the Llugwy Gorge . |
| 10 | At the heart of the development a new glazed roof stands over the two-level shopping area . |
| 11 | She likes to cover up the truth like she covers over the naked light . |
| 12 | Dennis presides over the walled garden , which supplies the kitchens at Highgrove and Kensington Palace and grows all the weird and wonderful varieties that the Prince acquires and delights in surprising his guests with . |
| 13 | If , in a sense , the Great Mother presides over the physical act of childbirth , then it is wise to submit to her demands during pregnancy , birth and the infancy of the child . |
| 14 | A similar area rich in both environmental and archaeological heritage lies over the Guatemalan frontier . |
| 15 | Yet such a view is contrary to the spirit of much of the rest of this work , where we emphasize the limited control that the government has over the private sector . |
| 16 | The third category of incisor digestion is one in which extensive enamel digestion occurs over the whole incisor ( Fig. 3.22 J-K , and Fig. 3.23 H-I ) . |
| 17 | The draft budget for fiscal 1991/92 , approved by the government on March 4 , 1991 , showed a 29.3 per cent rise in income plans and a 3.4 per cent rise in expenditure plans over the previous year . |
| 18 | The distribution of a component between the two phases is given by the partition coefficient D ( see also previous section ) A component of a mixture with a high value for D remains largely dissolved in the mobile phase and thus passes over the stationary phase rapidly . |
| 19 | And it 's a huge great big muscle but it can get a little bit er inflamed , as it passes over the front edge of the kneecap there . |
| 20 | But by focusing on the way party leaderships and their organisational structures block the road to realignment on the left , Hall passes over the fundamental weakness of radical culture in British civil society . |
| 21 | Both orbits are described as sun-synchronous because the relationship between the positions of the satellite , the sun and the Earth is maintained as the satellite passes over the illuminated side of the Earth , so that the local sun time on the ground immediately below the satellite is approximately the same , around 9.30 am . |
| 22 | This will disgorge the stored information twice a day , at alternate intervals of 10 and 14 hours , as IRAS passes over the operational control centre at Chilton in Oxfordshire . |
| 23 | First Thurn und Taxis sale fetches £9.015 million as Bavarian State still negotiates over the greater treasures |
| 24 | Until we get the full implications of the Taylor Report and discover what happens over the identity-card issue , we will have to sit tight . |
| 25 | As controversy rages over the forcible repatriation of the Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong by the British , and the United States and Britain continue heated exchanges on that and other related matters , such as the possible role of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia 's future , it becomes increasingly clear that Vietnam 's legacy is not confined to those who lost and won the war . |
| 26 | Cost of sales is also adjusted to reflect these deductions , except that only equal annual charges for debt service are deducted so as to spread the financing costs over the remaining lives of the respective sales contracts rather than the uneven repayment schedules established for the loans . |
| 27 | What fired the stock market , however , is a belief that corporate profits should start to improve before consumer spending rises , thanks to the reduction in stocks and costs over the past year . |
| 28 | I would expect further cuts over the next couple of months . |
| 29 | We have seen that the more modern legitimation of corporate power , which has prevailed since the demise of the fiction/concession theory , is based upon the discipline which the competitive market exerts over the economic power of the company . |
| 30 | When , for example , a subject fitted with scalp electrodes over the auditory cortex is played a series of brief clicks through headphones and the EEG following each click is averaged so that random fluctuations cancel each other out , what is left is a systematic but complex pattern of electrical waves which is caused by the click in the same way that the waves on the surface of a pond are caused by dropping a pebble into it . |