Example sentences of "over [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This white turkey virtually took over as the sole breed ; and , by the Christmas of 1959 , there was hardly any demand for the bronze bird . |
| 2 | The more serious threat of the expanding red weed had taken over as the immediate concern of the controllers . |
| 3 | Roger Fox , father of Richard and Rachel , has taken over as the new Chairman . |
| 4 | In August 1953 Sir John Nott-Bower took over as the new Commissioner at Scotland Yard and was reported as saying that he would ‘ rip the covers off all London 's filth spots ’ . |
| 5 | The final axe is expected to come after Birt takes over as the new director general in March . |
| 6 | Couples took over as the American No 1 at the Bay Hill Invitational in March and stayed there , although he admits it was a struggle . |
| 7 | The American Volunteer Group ( AVG ) , known the world over as the Flying Tigers achieved fame under the leadership of Claire L Chennault fighting alongside the Chinese in their pre World War Two struggle against Japan . |
| 8 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 9 | Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest . |
| 10 | Professionals and local authority employees are still moving to jobs in one of the most sought-after parts of Britain , but the blockbuster moves — 600 in the Lloyds retail banking arm into the Bristol area in 1989-91 , and 100 British Aerospace workers into the Plymouth region recently — are probably over for the immediate future . |
| 11 | He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ . |
| 12 | In the dying minutes Alexander Tikhonov scored a try ; but almost immediately Bob Kimmins forced his way over for the final try , with Strett , almost inevitably , converting . |
| 13 | However , the worst may not be over for the embattled Chancellor . |
| 14 | Debutant fly-half Alain Penaud is about to initiate the switch which put Saint-André ( mouth open ) over for the only try of the match as a Welsh posse of Neil Jenkins , Davies and Webster cover across in vain . |
| 15 | It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following . |
| 16 | Taking a break from country hideaways , we hunted for a retreat in central London for those of you staying over for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition treat ( see page 150 ) . |
| 17 | In 1642 he was acting as a commissary , or supply officer , at Chester , sending provisions over for the Anglo-Scottish forces in Ireland . |
| 18 | But , although winning a famous victory over ( Sir ) Winston Churchill to become Labour MP for Dundee in November 1922 , he was passed over for the foreign secretaryship of the first Labour government fourteen months later . |
| 19 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 20 | They even gave him a Plate to carry it on — silver , that is — when they beat Tonga in a pulsating second-tier final which saw Gareth James power over for the winning try in extra time . |
| 21 | Replacing the highly popular Mr Dubcek was no easy task , but on the grounds that Janos Kadar salvaged something in Hungary when he took over after the popular uprising of 1956 , Mr Husak might have achieved something . |
| 22 | He thought that this solved the problem , but it did not — it was a silly , thoughtless and trivial glossing over of the essential differences in the text . |
| 23 | BR issued a prospectus for the handing over of the entire Settle & Carlisle line to private enterprise . |
| 24 | The investment weightings of the portfolio have continued to show an overwhelming bias towards publishing , which has accounted for 75% or over of the whole portfolio since June 1991 . |
| 25 | This handing over of the Conservative party , in Denis Healey 's phrase , ‘ from the estate owners to the estate agents ’ , has been a process upper class Tories have watched with distaste . |
| 26 | Rafiq followed him , and for a moment Robert thought he was going to hit him , but , instead , he ran across the road and over towards the far side of the Common . |
| 27 | Then the horse plunged as Jones shook the reins to get rid of the swaying woman who still hung like a limpet , and Anmer rolled over towards the inside rails with Jones underneath . |
| 28 | The canal 's over that-a-way , but if we head over towards the old brickworks- ’ She unlocked a huge padlock which fastened the gates . |
| 29 | South of this tiny pair are a few lonely islands separated from one another by hundreds of kilometres of sea — first , Ascension Island , then St Helena , and then over towards the Brazilian coast , Trinidade . |
| 30 | Man stands over against the awful otherness of God , by which his own existence is challenged , questioned and judged ; but in faith he finds the power nonetheless to live in that encounter with God by which each present moment becomes a meeting with eternity . |