Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I leaned over in my boxy suit and re-signed the credit slip , my bitten fingers shimmering over the scorched trunk . |
| 2 | Rebel shareholders are expected to give officials a rough ride today , reflecting views of United fans angry over the club 's financial policy . |
| 3 | Leonora quivered , her teeth caught in her lower lip as he kissed each breast in turn , his lips lingering over their slight curves . |
| 4 | Passage of larvae through the lungs has been shown experimentally to result in multiple small haemorrhages visible over most of the lung surfaces . |
| 5 | The theory states that if we receive an excess of definitions favourable over those unfavourable , then we will commit crime . |
| 6 | The studio contained two easels , chairs , stools , a desk , a bronze dancing Shiva about three feet high over which , today , one of Jack 's overalls had been thrown . |
| 7 | Since the water had to be raised to the top of the acropolis over a distance of a kilometre , this saved the construction of an aqueduct 100 feet high over this long distance . |
| 8 | Hence , the set of critical columns will remain the same throughout a sequence of tableaux optimal over degenerate intervals . |
| 9 | When applied to a sequence of tableaux optimal over a degenerate interval , this process can be interpreted as applying the simplex method restricted to the critical columns . |
| 10 | The finiteness of the simplex method , established in Chapter 3 , shows that in any sequence of tableaux optimal over degenerate intervals , we must eventually reach a tableau with for all critical columns j , and consequently , at the next iteration , a tableau optimal over a non-degenerate interval . |
| 11 | True some modes of thought are in certain circumstances and periods dominant over others ; they may even hold the envied status of an official orthodoxy . |
| 12 | Who can fail to be amazed that so few men ( and virtually unknown men too ) , could carry such a huge quantity of jewels unharmed over so great a distance ? |
| 13 | Its main dimensions are a 10ft wheel base , 5ft 6 ins width at the centre , 16ft 6ins length of body , 17ft 11ins long over headstocks , 21ft 9ins long over the buffers , and overall height from rail level , 11ft . |
| 14 | The LDP forced it through its committee stages in the House of Representatives — the Lower House of the Diet — on Nov. 27 , thereby causing a brawl to erupt amongst legislators angry over what they saw as a flouting of established procedure . |
| 15 | SENIOR CHURCHMEN ANGRY OVER ‘ MEDIA BIAS ' |
| 16 | On Monday morning Sam came to class events with dark shadows under his eyes , looking ten years older over a weekend . |
| 17 | For example , if you have quarry tiles in the kitchen , they may be rather cold on the feet for dinner guests lingering over coffee , as well as being noisy when chairs scrape across them . |
| 18 | They must be related to the conditions prevailing over several preceding days . |
| 19 | Eventually they identified a shortlist of about twenty areas where the rock formations were considered suitably stable and dry to keep the nuclear waste containers intact over the long timescales envisaged . |
| 20 | This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years . |
| 21 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp has filed a patent infringement suit against Conner Peripherals Inc over a patent relating to intelligent disk drives — last year Conner and Alps Electric USA Ltd bought the patents of the bankrupt PrairieTek Corp and Western Digital said it expected Conner to sue it based on two of these PrairieTek patents and on two patents developed by Conner , and its own suit is a pre-emptive strike . |
| 22 | His eyes were small black sentries that marched up and down , and his hands were bunches of bananas unsold over the week-end . |
| 23 | Authorities concerned over rural depopulation have attempted to provide for the consumer and cultural needs of rural dwellers , but the drift has persisted . |
| 24 | Unlike younger age groups those over retirement age are usually actual home owners as opposed to holding a mortgage . |
| 25 | The romanticized picture of housewives happy over their labour of love is also challenged by accounts of the higher rates of depression among women with small children who stay at home , by such eagerness to take paid work that they will accept rates of pay and conditions of employment that no man would tolerate , and by accounts of the slow hard slog and monotony of housework . |
| 26 | Argentina 's debt with Paris Club countries stood at US$8,730 million , and the agreement concerned payments due over the next 10 years , with longer periods allowed for payment of U$2,800 million falling due by 2000 , and a ceiling on amortization payments after March 1995 . |
| 27 | The amount capitalised is the present value of the minimum lease payments payable over the term of the lease . |
| 28 | The amount capitalised is the present value of the minimum lease payments payable over the term of the lease . |
| 29 | The amount capitalised is the present value of the minimum lease payments payable over the term of the lease . |
| 30 | He looked very thoughtful , his brows heavy over his eyes . |