Example sentences of "over by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the company did n't pay any dividend , and has now been taken over by a firm making china and porcelain goods . |
| 2 | But these objects , ritualistically sprinkled and gestured over by a Catholic priest or Aymara sage , take on a new significance as promises of future prosperity . |
| 3 | No one likes streets covered in dog excrement , or being bowled over by a powerful dog pulling on its leash . |
| 4 | The Doctor was using a pocket mirror to see what was going on outside without sticking his head out of the window , Howard was over by a small stove cooking several breakfasts , the hospital staff were milling about seeing to their patients , and Petion was being shaved by an orderly using a piece of broken glass . |
| 5 | Frances Maidment has vivid memories of the day she was run over by a stolen car . |
| 6 | Cultural and educational inequalities based on economic inequality are a reality which needs to be revealed and not glossed over by a populist notion of art for the people . |
| 7 | When I arrived at the course , there they were in a rack being watched over by a young man , who , in turn , placed them in a buggy . |
| 8 | Above left : Large silk bows adorned with trailing gold stars are watched over by a golden cherub and help to liven up the staircase |
| 9 | However , if we do not like being judged by an external tribunal , if we do not like our citizens being interrogated by foreign judges about acts committed in the United Kingdom , if we do not like our Acts of Parliament and our internal administration being scrupulously picked over by a European Commission , if we do not like the relations between the Crown and its possessions being altered over our heads , the remedy is in our own hands . |
| 10 | It is a structure essentially tribal in Pakistan , caste-based in India , which , though distorted several times over by a changing economy , still retains some of its concepts ( including that of the position of women ) in their original form . |
| 11 | The story ends at a funeral , hovered over by a surreal balloon , from which hangs a fancied female acrobat . |
| 12 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 13 | It had been taken over by a new contingent of tourists . |
| 14 | taken over by a new generation … which welcomes the unemphatic , the intimate and the affectionate as the creative product of our limitations . |
| 15 | In 1988 , however , the MSC was disbanded as a separate , semi-autonomous organisation , and its functions were taken over by a new section set up within the Department of Employment , originally called the Training Agency but later renamed the Training , Enterprise and Education Division . |
| 16 | Struggling Second Division Wigan Athletic have been taken over by a London-based consortium . |
| 17 | The parachute service was due to be taken over by a civilian operation when the base closes in the Autumn . |
| 18 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 19 | The flower-plots represent the colour that could have been but have been taken over by a dull shade of moss . |
| 20 | The work of fostering and supporting such groups has now been taken over by a national organization called Cope , which works closely with local social services departments and adult education departments to spread the approach across the country . |
| 21 | What had happened in Dungannon , he suggested , was no different from what had happened in Prague : ‘ We ordinary people have been walked over by a militant force . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps the company has been taken over by a larger group which is not interested in building it tip . |
| 23 | In these circumstances it is not difficult to predict speedy failure , unless , as has been proposed , the line is taken over by a British firm which has secured the concession for the building of a line from Shanghai to Peking . |
| 24 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 25 | We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ? |
| 26 | Eventually , they came to a large set of steel doors , watched over by a single guard . |
| 27 | For the first three centuries of its existence , until 751 , it was ruled over by a single family , that of the Merovingians . |
| 28 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |
| 29 | Japan has , for the last twelve hundred years and more , been reigned over by an imperial house which claims descent from the Yamato clan , whose control of the central part of Japan long predates written record . |
| 30 | He got run over by an articulated lorry . |