Example sentences of "over [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The ideal time to make that kind of break would be as Sun shifts over to an object-oriented operating system , its next operating systems move , McNealy said . |
| 32 | On April 20 more than 50,000 people demonstrated in Bangkok in support of opposition demands that Suchinda , as a non-elected soldier , should turn the premiership over to an elected politician . |
| 33 | Bent over at an ungainly angle , trying to wrench the thing free , Bernice was acutely conscious of the picture that she must be making . |
| 34 | Prince Philip had stipulated a maximum of ten years for his period in office , and had extended it by a year to enable Prince Charles , who was serving in the Royal Navy , to take over at an appropriate moment . |
| 35 | Japan has , for the last twelve hundred years and more , been reigned over by an imperial house which claims descent from the Yamato clan , whose control of the central part of Japan long predates written record . |
| 36 | He got run over by an articulated lorry . |
| 37 | Charity opened her mouth to say that a Mercedes was really not on her list of aspirations , but at that moment they approached a sharp twist in the path and were almost knocked over by an electric golf cart careening around it . |
| 38 | Two hundred and fifty workers at a factory recently taken over by an American company have been given their redundancy notices today . |
| 39 | French PABX manufacturer Barphone SA , which holds 25% of the French market for PABXs of less than 25 ports , has said it is close to being taken over by an un-named foreign industrial group . |