Example sentences of "which [verb] over [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pointed out the sloping white stripes on the walls , whose incline indicated the nearest of the niches providing protection for plate-layers who otherwise might end up under the wheels of one of the expresses which thundered over these rails , bound for famous foreign cities . |
| 2 | They are also partially visible from the coast path which passes over National Trust property . |
| 3 | UK Cobol house MicroFocus , Newbury , Berkshire , is teaming with US firm Creative Systems Interfaces Inc to develop a range of communications software : initially MicroFocus will market , under its own name , CSI 's programme-to-programme connectivity packages which run over multiple hardware and software platforms including Windows , AS/400 , MS-DOS ( client ) , OS/2 , AIX and MVS . |
| 4 | From the slit along the bottom , it protrudes not only its foot but two sections of its mantle which extend over each flank of the shell and meet at the top . |
| 5 | Where the question of ideology is paramount , the concern is with the manner in which control over cultural forms is used to suppress contradictions or conflicts ( Larrain 1982 : 15 ) . |
| 6 | The phenomenon here may be the breaking up ( perhaps by storm ) of the hard crusty surface which forms over deep lakes of liquid mud in the Arabah rift valley where this incident occurred . |
| 7 | To complete the game you need to photograph all 16 inventions , each of which takes over 20 shots ! |
| 8 | Her hair , braided into a long plait which fell over one shoulder , looked dusty and lustreless . |
| 9 | For a brief spell I became a Troop Leader , which I enjoyed because the Troop Leader carried the flag , but unlike " Sister Anna " ( who also carried a banner in the song which I was to learn much later ) I had a handsome leather pouch which went over one shoulder . |
| 10 | Where political union and sovereignty are concerned , I can see no natural political affinity between the United Kingdom and Luxembourg — a country with a population smaller than Berkshire — or with Belgium , with its divided population , Holland , with its total dependence on its neighbours , or Italy , which has so much difficulty in implementing EC directives , which moralises over other people 's shortcomings and has a new Government roughly every 18 months . |
| 11 | Richards holds that in poetry the function of " feeling " tends to dominate that of " sense " , while Jakobson identifies a special " poetic " function , which can be found in many uses of language , but which dominates over other functions in poetry . |
| 12 | Mass strandings usually involve whales which migrate over long distances . |
| 13 | For insects such as locusts , which migrate over vast distances , it is even more important to fly at an economical speed . |
| 14 | In a process which stretched over several weeks they exchanged ideas . |
| 15 | The original Strasbourg clock probably contained , besides moving figures , an annual-calendar dial , and possibly a lunar dial and an astrolabe , but the instrument designed by Giovanni de' Dondi incorporated a perpetual calendar for all religious feasts , both fixed and movable , and also indicated the celestial motions of the sun , moon , and planets , including even the motions of the nodes of the moon 's orbit , which take over eighteen years to make a complete revolution around the ecliptic . |
| 16 | Though involving less spectacular rates of uplift , crustal unloading by denudation is a far more pervasive process which extends over long periods of time , in contrast to the rather transient effects of deglaciation and evaporation of lakes . |
| 17 | Wires are colour coded and have labelled fitted plugs which slide over libelled pins on the motherboard . |
| 18 | Today 's universe contains four observable forces — the electromagnetic and gravitational ones , which work over long ranges , and the weak and strong nuclear ones , which work only locally . |