Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the clouds came we visited Beaulieu , travelled their monorail , rode a vintage bus and drooled over the super cars in the National Motor Museum . |
| 2 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 3 | Just before baking , brush with beaten egg and sprinkle some sesame seeds over the finished flaounes . |
| 4 | Until 1936 , the other rural counties in the District were regarded as ‘ open territory ’ but in that year a partial relaxation over public expenditure restrictions occurred and the issues inherent in the compromise over the rural areas agreement between the Cambridge Board and the District emerged in sharply focussed ways . |
| 5 | But it was not only officers and members of the WEA and the District who were pleased with the final agreement over the rural areas scheme and the conclusion of negotiations of byzantine complexity extending over a period of four difficult years . |
| 6 | Will the Minister accept that the flaw in his argument is that no figure is projected for the next financial year which will take the amount needed over the present limits agreed under the 1987 legislation ? |
| 7 | Erm , so you bring all the data down , passing over the simple formulae and then do one copy . |
| 8 | On a crowded traffic way he 'd have been dead in under a minute but the barren landscape of this world offered little in the way of obstacles and the vehicle seemed able to right itself over the irregular peaks that occasionally reared unexpectedly out of the mists . |
| 9 | Contesting with others over the extrinsic spoils of learning is one aspect of competitive assessment . |
| 10 | Now you 're all over the bloody papers . |
| 11 | The Comintern worked predictably but with difficulty to establish control over the recalcitrant comrades in both factions but was faced with firm opposition from those who did not wish to see Korean communism become a minor branch of the world communist movement directed by Moscow . |
| 12 | There were ancient , faded tapestries sprawling over the pale-panelled walls . |
| 13 | At RAF Lyneham 500 men are sweating over the vast amounts of equipment the individual soldier attaches to his body prior to jumping into a theatre of war . |
| 14 | There has been an enormous and very genuine outcry over the vast sums it has made from a virtual monopoly position . |
| 15 | By opting for the positive foods over the negative ones , you 'll also be well on your way to keeping your calories in check without really trying . |
| 16 | More birds , more shufflings , more rings to slip over the pink-grey legs with their webbed feet . |
| 17 | Progress towards political reform under Nguyen Van Linh ( then secretary-general of the CPV ) " s programme of renovation ( doi moi ) was effectively halted by apprehension within the higher echelons of the CPV over the momentous events taking place in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe during 1989-91 . |
| 18 | Some accounts also suggest that these waves swept over the low-lying parts of St Pierre , near the waterfront , causing some damage and casualties . |
| 19 | For example , in April 1991 a cyclone storm surge killed over 130,000 people in Bangladesh as the sea penetrated far inland over the low-lying coastlands . |
| 20 | Dot unrolled her piece of twine and began to skip slowly along the pavement over the coal-hole covers towards the basement . |
| 21 | After the uproar created by Nicholas Tolstoy over the Cossack repatriations , the fringe groups had been taken very seriously . |
| 22 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 23 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 24 | Every brook coming down from the heights was swollen into a torrent , every valley river gulped these tributaries into its heart , and burst out over the narrow meadows into languid shallows , while in the centre it rushed ahead with treacherous force . |
| 25 | Driving very slowly over the narrow bridges spanning the fast flowing streams which stemmed from the River Ouse , he noticed that a massive flock of coots had flown in while he had been away . |
| 26 | This was before the building of New Bridge Road and it now seems impossible that the large convoy of vehicles could ever make its way over the narrow bridges leading into the city . |
| 27 | Sometimes , during the ritual prayer , now he had got over the early stages of wondering when to get on the floor , when to rise , and exactly how to get the fingers up to the earlobes , he found himself begging to be excused any significance in his actions . |
| 28 | ‘ I could n't afford to wait — not with the story of the London kidnap splashed all over the early editions of Figaro . |
| 29 | We focus first on the moral issues , and then move on to consider the debate over the factual consequences of insider dealing . |
| 30 | For two perfect Sundays they scrambled side-by-side over the lichen-dappled rocks of the valley wall , the aquamarine sky above reflected in the ribbon of sea below them . |