Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any rate , it would be an exaggeration to speak of a collapse of militancy , or to infer that over the long term workers ' resistance can not be maintained . |
| 2 | The supervisor can aid and abet the earner to drive while over the prescribed limit etc . |
| 3 | It already has a labour force there of 15,000 and plans to double that over the next year or two , investing around DM1 billion . |
| 4 | Likewise when we go to a country , we need somewhere to stay and over the last decade there have been more and more hotels built in virtually every place in the world . |
| 5 | Maybe average 1.5->2 is a tough number of points to get BUT over the 6 games 3 wins ( Scum/Hammers/Arse ) and the rest draws ( QPR/Newc/Norw ) is just what we need ! ! ! |
| 6 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 7 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 8 | Even Roxburgh had to admit that over the last year , during which Ferguson has flirted with letting the latter trait get the better of the former , has brought the player an ‘ awareness of the tough , competitive business he is in . ’ |
| 9 | A market economy in China promises to mean that over the next decade Asia 's geography can reassert itself . |