Example sentences of "and over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using your middle fingers , make tiny circles on the cheeks at either side of the nostrils and over the upper lip ( see Fig. 15 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From Mount Ampenan , and over the rocky coastline and long golden beaches is a sight to behold . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was sticky with mud , and my mind kept going over and over the extraordinary events of the afternoon and evening . |
| 9 | The dust hangs heavy in the air , on the rag-covered bodies and over the scabied skin of the children . |
| 10 | So much for the midges , and it would be better at the head of the track and over the central moors . |
| 11 | Influenced by the lower pound , earnings jumped by 22 per cent during the period and over the nine months . |
| 12 | On Thursday they would continue through the remainder of Germany and over the Czechoslovakian border . |
| 13 | And over the 13 elections since 1945 , when polling began with Gallup correctly predicting a Labour victory , the average error per party was 1.4 per cent . |
| 14 | Walkers in a hurry can sneak across on a passenger ferry and over the facing hill on a cart track to Dundonnell , saving nearly twenty miles and the best part of a day . |
| 15 | But is n't it true , this garden has a fantastic character which makes you quite able to imagine the poets of the Renaissance strolling among these bushes and over the flowery grass ? … |
| 16 | Lilacs had been twined about the balcony which ran round two sides of the courtyard and over the deep , ancient arches of the north and west walls . |
| 17 | On agriculture the New Zealand side expressed concerns over protectionist barriers affecting its major exports , and over the current impasse in the GATT talks [ see also p. 38027 ] . |
| 18 | Not all of the recipients of honours were backbenchers , and over the following years journalists , industrialists and bankers sympathetic to the cause were handed decorations of one kind or another . |
| 19 | Parts of the aircraft were missing when Harris purchased 133722 , and over the following two years , the tail assembly , engine , engine mount , cowlings , and many other portions of the aircraft had to be located , acquired , modified or made . |
| 20 | She was barely aware of other tourists as the sound of their feet rang out on the cobbled streets , and over the following hours Fabia was deep in everything there was to see apart from the castle and the National Gallery with its collection of old and new European art . |
| 21 | Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history . |
| 22 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 23 | Over and over the one phrase would go . |
| 24 | Now the path ran through heather high above the burn , past circular sheepfolds long disused and over the stony beds of side streams where the grass hung smooth and inviting , concealing ankle-breaking drops . |
| 25 | The train passed a fire station , a brewery , and over the wide murky river . |
| 26 | Thereafter they crossed the greater river at that ford and proceeded eastwards by Ancrum and over the low Fairnington hills to the Makerstoun ford of Tweed . |
| 27 | By late March divisions were appearing between members of the 12-party Unity Assembly ( Group of 12 — see p. 37313 ) over the extent to which Pascal-Trouillot should consult with the Council of State and over the alleged influence of Duvalierists or Duvalierist sympathizers in her administration . |
| 28 | He was full of idealism about what this post offered in terms of opportunity , and over the odd whisky in his pub of the moment , he would talk about what art education could be and should be . |
| 29 | Two wooden fences , two wire fences , and all lit as day , all covered by the watch-towers standing in each corner of the compound , and over the highest of the wooden fences he could see only the roof of the prison . |
| 30 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |