Example sentences of "not over " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONTRARY to popular belief , a £1m damages award is not over generous when a young person suffers severe brain damage in a road accident . |
| 2 | But there will be three trains a week instead of 14 , all going by the less attractive and evocative northern route and not over the historic line of the Canadian Pacific Railway . |
| 3 | The real battle , though , is not over exchange rates but interest rates . |
| 4 | Surely not over the box of jewellery , surely not , Kathleen Lavender who bore nobody a grudge . |
| 5 | Surpluses on a period of account should not be automatically lost , if they can be demonstrated to be the result of efficient working and not over budgeting , otherwise controllers will ensure that there are no surpluses . |
| 6 | However , despite this and despite signing a lucrative deal in America with Sire , the band were not over impressed with the Americans . |
| 7 | To make sure you are not over the line at the start , try and get an accurate transit — do not use a moving ship on the horizon ! |
| 8 | There is often a large sag in the line-up of boards , because although the people at either end are confident that they are not over the line , the people in the middle can not judge their approach precisely and tend to hold back in caution . |
| 9 | UARS 's microwave equipment detected levels of ClO as high as those within the Antarctic ozone hole — but these were over Scandinavia and Northern Eurasia , not over uninhabited polar regions . |
| 10 | If that is not over the score I do not know what is . |
| 11 | The Scottish Development Agency ( SDA ) , which had been given the task of co-ordinating the various bodies involved , was not over enthusiastic about the project ( Morison , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | In short , the MDC has presided over some successes , but not over what might be termed the regeneration of Liverpool 's docks . |
| 13 | In the constitution he goes on to elaborate : the hypothec tacitly covered all property received by the heir or trustee from the estate of the deceased ; the action for the hypothec lay for the same amount as the original actio in personam ; it extended only over property received from the estate and not over any personal property of the heir or trustee . |
| 14 | One night I remember clearly was when we lost an aircraft and crew at Bourn , not over Germany but back on our own air field , which made it worse . |
| 15 | Office parties or casual occasions call for an outfit that 's special but not over the top ; smart , but not dull . |
| 16 | ‘ Not over my staff 's private lives . |
| 17 | He is not over fond of strangers , but he will allow people into the house , although he monitors their movements the whole time . ’ |
| 18 | The shadow is not over God more than it is over anything else . |
| 19 | But only over here — not over there . |
| 20 | I 'm not over familiar with the works of Ira , Chuck and Sid but Elliott 's sounds are pretty much what I was expecting . |
| 21 | You have to look at quality of earnings over the next decade , not over the next year . |
| 22 | She wanted to shout out , ‘ No , Harriet — not over there ! ’ |
| 23 | It may , therefore , also be the case that the jewellers were not over concerned with the purity of the gold and that , therefore , the balances , weights and touchstones did not belong to them . |
| 24 | The first few strenuous bridging moves sowed the seeds of doubt — not over the route 's identity so much as whether he could get up it . |
| 25 | But I 'm still not over what it does to people and what they think of me because of it . |
| 26 | At once cerebral and aware of the business at hand , The Shamen turn Techno into positivist ( ignore the connotations ) poetry and the soon-come single ‘ Love , Sex , Intelligence ’ is set to be an anthem , pitched as it is exactly at the right level , ie not over our heads . |
| 27 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 28 | They are the ones who — as one such teacher put it to me — are over the hump but not over the hill . |
| 29 | Despite its implications , the great argument was not over the Political Community , but over the EDC , for the former stood or fell with the ratification of the latter . |
| 30 | Rinse the print downwards so that the ferri. runs off the print and not over the image . |