Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb -s] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everywhere bells ring the alarm ; a surge of fear sweeps over the countryside . |
| 2 | The assumptions used in these valuations vary according to local conditions , but depend heavily upon the assumed excess of investment returns over the rate of increase in pensionable pay . |
| 3 | Meanwhile unrest in Franch has spread to Paris ’ main wholesale food market , where more than 800 French fishermen went on the rampage , smashing stalls and weighing scales and leaving hundreds of pounds of fish strews over the ground before clashing with riot police today . |
| 4 | The ending of wartime controls over the economy when peace came was not a popular cry , whatever the Conservative Party and business interests may have thought . |
| 5 | Reassurance is another matter , except at the level where all great art reassures ; for a spirit of slippage presides over The Possessed . |
| 6 | A piece of paper comes over the pine counter with five numbers on it . |
| 7 | The work was in progress from 1827 until 1840 and represents Donizetti 's career in microcosm ; even the type of paper improves over the years with the progress of his career . |
| 8 | As the ‘ degree of control a person or a collectivity of people exercises over the actions of others ’ the sociological examination of power is conventionally linked with male-oriented stratification analysis , and with the analysis of formal institutions such as government . |
| 9 | A veil of ignorance hangs over the moment of creation . |
| 10 | A difficulty of interpretation arises over the question whether it must be the constable who warns who effects the arrest . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A look of bewilderment comes over the faces of visitors who can not comprehend why some supporters will not go to watch the national side simply because they are playing on Rangers ' ground . |
| 13 | A gaseous stench of decay hangs over the township . |
| 14 | But a worrying pall of familiarity hangs over the proceedings . |
| 15 | As Grand Master , the Duke of Kent presides over the largest secret society in England and Wales with an estimated 600,000 , all male , members . |