Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [v-ing] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hydraulic ram was used to open these gates by means of chains passing over pulleys on the lintel of the frame , giving a velocity ration of 3 to 1 . |
| 2 | She heard the drone of some bees in the garden and the angry chatter of birds disputing over their seeds . |
| 3 | Evidence of sons taking over from their parents was seen in Leicestershire with a redistribution of the work load between father and son . |
| 4 | Crough ( 1979 ) explores the possible morphological consequences of continents migrating over hot spots and also cites a possible example from North America ( Crough , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | But there may also be : ( 1 ) receipts of mesne profits in the case of subtenants holding over ; ( 2 ) premiums paid for surrenders or lease variations ; ( 3 ) money payable under insurance policies for damage to the scheme or for loss of rent and commissions paid by the insurers to the tenant ; ( 4 ) damages for breach of covenant ( eg dilapidations ) ; ( 5 ) interest on late rent , on reviewed rent , and on damages ; ( 6 ) grants or other public money paid for works to the scheme ; ( 7 ) compensation for compulsory acquisition . |
| 6 | As he spoke I could hear the rush of shells passing over heading in the direction of the German positions . |
| 7 | At least the enemy are in a similar situation probably much worse off then we are judging by the amount of shells passing over our heads to fall in their positions . |
| 8 | That evening is I crouched at the back of the slit trench , swatting the mauses and listening to the sound of shells passing over and the rain dripping steadily in through the entrance to the trench , I stared at the pool of water getting larger and hoped that the rain would soon stop , if it does n't I 'm in for an uncomfortable night . |
| 9 | The scale of the structures around them is so huge they look like teams of porters marching over a range of hills to a mine . |
| 10 | Indeed , with the great roaring fires it looked like hell and the chef , Satan , attended by an army of demons labouring over turning spits and shining platters , interlarding the dripping , roasting lambs and piglets with their own globules of sweat . |
| 11 | Lack of scattering does not , however , explain the existence of plateaux extending over a range of values of the gate voltage . |
| 12 | With a ruthless new breed of killers taking over the leadership reigns , the threat to the Roman Catholic community is now higher than it has ever been . |
| 13 | The analysis of the search space carried out in this chapter should help to focus attention on the discriminating requirement of top-down information in terms of the number and similarity of hypotheses competing over a stretch of the utterance , and of the distance between pruning points ( i.e. the grammar ‘ chunks ’ ) , the two factors which determine the potential combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 14 | Clem Shaw , the maker of Channel 4 's film for Cutting Edge , told the Times : ‘ We thought we 'd be looking at lots of ramblers trampling over delicate areas , but it turned out to be much more of a social perspective than an environmental one ; more of a political issue than I 'd intended . ’ |
| 15 | The microcomputer firms foresee networks of micros taking over , and the minicomputer firms see networks of minis , while IBM has come up with Systems Application Architecture ( SAA ) , designed to maintain the mainframe 's iron grip on corporate data processing 's throat . |
| 16 | The next day both he and his plane were gone and with hundreds of planes going over , the next morning D Day had begun . |
| 17 | Its placement has , of course , nothing to do with increasing barge loads as has been claimed , the aqueduct load remaining constant while carrying water regardless of boats passing over , but the new aqueduct is wider , reducing the potential for collision damage . |
| 18 | So , for the moment , our problem is not with the Navy observers who are directing the naval guns , it 's with the increasing number of guns firing over our positions from the direction of the River Orne . |
| 19 | There were also several incidents in the same state of booth-capturing : gangs of thugs taking over polling stations and stuffing the ballot box with votes for their favoured candidates . |
| 20 | ‘ He dreamed one night that the way from Al Ain to Abu Dhabi would be green with branches of trees coming over to give shade . |
| 21 | But in this … chapter we are specially concerned with movements of prices ranging over still longer periods than those for which the most farsighted dealers in futures generally make their reckoning : we have to consider the volume of production adjusting itself to the conditions of the market , and the normal price being thus determined at the position of stable equilibrium of normal demand and normal supply . |
| 22 | He glanced out at a gang of starlings fighting over some breadcrumbs that had been tossed on the lawn . |
| 23 | Putting paid to Daisy 's hour of peace were also hoards of children clambering over pews , chasing each other down the aisles , punching their mothers , and having to be repeatedly hushed for talking . |
| 24 | Here and there were crowds of men bargaining over cattle and horses . |
| 25 | But even Dr El-Essawy talks of tempers boiling over . |
| 26 | A group of workmen crossing over to the Valley just before dawn found her by the shore . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There 's a load of nomes going over to the dump , so we 'll have company the rest of the way . |
| 28 | At March 1979 the number of in-patients waiting over one year was 185,195 . |