Example sentences of "and over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technological control of nature characteristic of the West has been interpreted as the fulfilment of God 's command to Adam to exercise dominion over all the earth and over every living thing . |
| 2 | The mortar team are still lobbing their bombs into the enemy positions as we dash across the road and over a five-bar gate , then double along the hedgerow that runs alongside the road . |
| 3 | Thus for much of the period after 1760 , canals were important in some areas and over a small number of major routes . |
| 4 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 5 | He spoke as though they knew each other well and over a long period . |
| 6 | We believe we are doing our bit in this respect , successfully and over a long period , by land . ’ |
| 7 | Monomode cables carry light signals on a longer wavelength , and will give Mercury the chance to carry four times as much data as is possible on multimode , and over a greater distance . |
| 8 | Her eyes swung back towards Marlin , who was asking her if she was all right , then back towards the street as brakes shrieked , and the failed assassin was struck squarely by a speeding car , which reeled round , wheels locked and sliding over the sleet-greased street , throwing the man 's body off the bonnet and over a parked car . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , research and development in post-war fighter aircraft went forward at a brisk pace and over a wide range of options . |
| 10 | An investigation by Allan ( 1979 ) , for instance , found that not only did the middle class have more friends , but they were also drawn from a greater variety of social settings and over a wider geographical area . |
| 11 | This grows gradually more difficult and strenuous until a final wild swing out and over a jammed block deposits the leader in a superb eyrie behind a tottering pinnacle . |
| 12 | The Congress approved most of the new powers Mr Gorbachev had requested , including direct control over the government and over a new security council . |
| 13 | Most of the attention , however , was focused on the nine days ahead of battling over the direction of economic reform in Russia and over a new constitution , several drafts of which have been prepared by different factions . |
| 14 | ‘ You first tucked up your skirts between your legs and you danced backwards and forwards , round and about and over a lighted candlestick . |
| 15 | Executive power is vested in the Governor ( currently Carlos Melancia ) , who is assisted by five Secretaries-Adjunct with executive powers , and who presides over a Superior Council of Security and over a Consultative Council . |
| 16 | From the tee one drives through a wood and over a large chalkpit . |
| 17 | It can be approached from a path made of gravestones laid end to end through the churchyard and over a brick-built bridge . |
| 18 | Either from the North Cockerington side along the towpath of the Louth to Tetney Navigation Canal and over a wooden bridge to the Yew lined churchyard path , or from the Alvingham village side and , equal as novel , through a farmyard , loudly alive with the grunting and squealing of pigs in their sites . |
| 19 | Gustave writes this in one of his earliest letters to Louise Colet ; and over a seven-year period ( 1846–53 ) he makes occasional references to the planned autobiography . |
| 20 | UK and EC policies have developed separately , largely in isolation and over a different time scale . |
| 21 | The motion had been proposed by President Lech Walesa , whose conflict with the minority Olszewski government , formed in December 1991 [ see pp. 38685-86 ] , had increased in intensity over the areas of defence and national security [ see pp. 38880-81 ; 38921-22 ] and over an attempted last-minute government amendment to the Russian-Polish treaty [ see p. 38922 ] . |
| 22 | English Heritage chooses now to stress the responsibility of the many boroughs of which London is made up : ‘ Our policy is , in consultation with the boroughs , and over an agreed programme , to withdraw from the exercise of our powers where we are duplicating their functions ’ . |
| 23 | This is based on a distinction between price changes over equal periods of calendar time , and over an equal number of information arrivals , termed event time . |
| 24 | Using your middle fingers , make tiny circles on the cheeks at either side of the nostrils and over the upper lip ( see Fig. 15 ) . |
| 25 | A growing rift was apparent between Iran and Turkey over competition for influence among the newly independent Central Asian states and over the future role and shape of ECO . |
| 26 | The camera rolls , the DAT machine grooves , and over the grassy knoll , the beanpole figure of singer Paul Linehan appears , grinning and spinning his way into the video vaults . |
| 27 | From Mount Ampenan , and over the rocky coastline and long golden beaches is a sight to behold . |
| 28 | In the null output direction the signal changes are almost solely due to angular movement of the earth 's field and over the small range involved are linearly proportional to angle . |
| 29 | The question of international respect for the US was clearly at issue in the Iran hostage crisis , and over the long term this matter had a relentlessly negative effect on Carter 's chances of re-election . |
| 30 | The journey back was a bit dreary as the blacked-out vehicle bumped and rattled its way through the darkened villages and over the long stretches of anonymous countryside . |