Example sentences of "which [verb] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a cabinet on the pavement beside the traction pole , in front of Holy Trinity Church , with a cable emerging from a hole in the top , which passed over a pulley near the top of the post and worked the overhead point , in conjunction with the rail point . |
| 2 | Artists had been hired especially to prepare these culinary masterpieces in the lifelike forms of birds , beasts and cattle , jousting courtiers in full armour , soldiers battling with cross-bows , knights dancing with ladies ; all were vividly depicted in the gilded confections which rose over a yard high from the groaning dining tables . |
| 3 | RIGHT Although head collars which attach over the dog 's nostrils are now widely-available in place of a neck collar and leash , they are not recommended for short-faced breeds such as the bulldog , as shown here . |
| 4 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
| 5 | With this type of valve ( of which the Garston or BRS valve is the best known ) , there is no moving piston — rather a rubber diaphragm which closes over a nylon seating with the last movement of the float arm . |
| 6 | Surely both vase-paintings and metopes ( which run over the middle and later decades of the century ) owe much to great wall-paintings in Corinth . |
| 7 | They are marginally larger and instead of the pale yellow head-plumes are adorned with bright golden-yellow plumes which meet over the forehead . |
| 8 | This routine can be carried out manually without any special equipment , but it is easier and quicker with an edit controller which takes over the operation of both machines from the one keyboard . |
| 9 | He said that the Italian Government , which takes over the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers , in July should ‘ convene and open ’ the treaty revision conference before handing over its presidency in December next year . |
| 10 | The main responsibility will fall on the Irish Government , which takes over the presidency of the EC council of ministers at the end of the month , and the Italians , who take over in July . |
| 11 | The Irish Government , which takes over the Presidency of the European Community at the end of the month has expressed its determination to give higher priority to environmental issues . |
| 12 | This is passed on to a set of inference rules cast in an appropriate non-monotonic logic which operate over the knowledge base to determine an appropriately helpful answer . |
| 13 | In the 1970s the Labour government supported a private member 's Bill which took over an item which would have been included in its own programme if there had been sufficient parliamentary time . |
| 14 | IDB Communications Group Inc reports that its IDB Worldcom unit , yesterday announced that it had signed a correspondent operating agreement with British Telecommunications Plc which allows it to provide international services to the UK ; IDB is in process of acquiring TRT , which took over the resale of capacity on the British Post Office 's phone network from National Networks Ltd . |
| 15 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 16 | Beecroft , however , stayed on as a partner in the firm of Dillon , Tennant & Co. , which took over the shore establishments . |
| 17 | Director Manny Silverman said the backing consortium , which took over the house of Hartnell five years ago , could no longer support the company . |
| 18 | A detailed account of the first half-century of the history of the College , up to the foundation of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons , which took over the College 's examining functions in 1844 , was given by Leslie Pugh ( 1895–1983 ) in his book From Farriery to Veterinary Medicine , published by Heffer of Cambridge in 1962 The books by Iain Pattison on the development of the veterinary profession , and on Principal McFadyean , are invaluable sources of information . |
| 19 | A founder of the St Clares Ladies Choir which performed over a period of years , she also found time to become a devoted and regular pilgrim to Lourdes , where her lovely voice became well known to those in the Torchlight Processions . |
| 20 | The first ( and simplest ) is where the downpipe terminates in a shoe which discharges over a gully . |
| 21 | Between their house and ours were the double doors of the cellar , having a three inch steel bar which fitted over a staple and was fastened by an enormous padlock . |
| 22 | In the ensuing fighting , which lasted over a month , 38 guerrillas were captured , including Tran Quang Do ; 29 were killed and one escaped . |
| 23 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 24 | The commission is advised by the Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee and the Historic Buildings Advisory Councils which take over the role previously exercised by the Ancient Monuments Board for England and the Historic Buildings Council for England . |
| 25 | The Marking Kit comes in the form of seven transparent overlays which slide over the test papers and allow the markers to see the right and wrong answers at a glance . |
| 26 | To the layman they all look pretty similar : crisp emerald weed buoyed up in the stream and then , in July , a snow in summer of glistening white flowers , which spill over the water in a way that seems to spell out the brief abundance of midsummer . |