Example sentences of "has [adv] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This proved true above all at the time of which I write , or up to that time , because adolescence is as much a mental as a biological experience , and the arts meant much at that epoch , the last before the advent of Pop Culture , which has since taken over the adolescent mind rendering present that ‘ future ’ which Eliot dreaded . |
| 2 | Jacques Poos , the foreign minister of Luxembourg ( which has just taken over the Community 's rotating presidency ) , expressed the hope that he would be authorised to visit Baghdad on its behalf . |
| 3 | Some have bemoaned the fast food outlet that has now taken over the odd corner of the Piazza , but this is the site of the ancient Milanese fiera ( fair ) — the name itself means Square of the Merchants — and doubtless on fair days the Piazza was not the ocean of calm many claim it must have been . |
| 4 | It is more generally accepted , however , that the buoyancy of the continental crust has limited the extent of continental underthrusting and that this is why the more recent Main Boundary Thrust dipping under the Lesser Himalayas has now taken over the role played earlier by the Main Central Thrust ( Fig. 3.22(A) ) . |
| 5 | Agriculture Minister John Gummer has now taken over the negotiating role . |
| 6 | He notes in passing that RISC has completely taken over the workstation and midrange server markets , is closing in on mainframes and minisupercomputers and is in process of displacing the second-ranking CISC chip , Motorola 's 68k from the high-end embedded market and appears to have a good shot at the emerging personal digital appliance market . |
| 7 | The player can control the direction which the machine moves in , representing the efforts of its crew to steer the thing by leaning precariously to one side or the other , but he has no say over the speed . |
| 8 | The shadow foreign secretary , Dr Jack Cunningham , said : ‘ If the House of Commons has no say over the Maastricht Treaty then the bill itself is a complete charade and a waste of time . |
| 9 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |