Example sentences of "of [v-ing] over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MANY PLACES OF INTEREST on and around the Three Peaks can only be reached on foot after many miles of walking over rough ground , but visitors to Leck Fell are favoured by a quiet moorland road that takes them to their objective precisely and , if they travel by car , without effort . |
| 2 | JOHN Major was plunged into another U-turn row last night after he was accused of backtracking over public spending cuts . |
| 3 | Konrad Kolsek , commander of the Fifth Army district , informed Peterle that his command had been " charged with the task of taking over all border crossings and protecting the state borders of the SFRY " . |
| 4 | For the post-Homeric Dionysiac movement that culminated in tragedy supplanted Olympianism to the extent of taking over epic mythology to express its own insights . |
| 5 | However , Mrs Thatcher showed little sign , in comments to the House of Commons , of relenting over early participation in ERM . |
| 6 | The prospect of handing over total responsibility for the care of the most vulnerable people in society to such local authorities was felt by some to be profoundly disquieting . |
| 7 | Left Book Club groups were capable of immense effort on occasion , but they could not reach as wide an audience as the Local Parties and were unsuited to the work of winning over Labour opinion by consistent effort . |
| 8 | At the national executive committee inquest , Roy Hattersley won nods of approval for his argument that an attempt to move towards Liberal Democrat policies , in the hope of winning over Liberal Democrat voters , was politically simplistic . |