Example sentences of "[adv] over [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So over all a deserved win — i just hope Speedy is back soon as Hodge is definitely not a good enough player .
2 When newly formed it is flexible and elastic and in many larvae it remains so over much of the body .
3 Before the 1988 Act , the governing bodies had control only over religious instruction .
4 This view is reinforced by the writings of some of the early church fathers such as St John Chrysostom , who observed that there was no conflict over natural common property such as air , sun , water , earth , sea , light and stars or even man-made common property such as baths , cities , markets and arcades , but only over private property which created what he termed that frigid expression ‘ Thine and Mine ’ .
5 Developments in the republics in October , in the accelerated process of the dissolution of central Soviet power , included assertions of increasing autonomy not only over economic but also over military arrangements [ see under individual headings below , but also p. 38553 for Gorbachev 's statement when proposing arms reductions that central control over Soviet nuclear weapons would remain ] .
6 The regions will then have some control and not only over such things as regional grants .
7 Okay , we can now define certain pre-structural relations which we 'll then use to explain the behaviour of things like herself so it 's only over okay , and node X dominates a node Y right , where a node is the point where a label appears , sentence node , node and so on .
8 On our return journey , we rode through a village where the houses , like ships , were moored along a canal and could be approached only over little bridges .
9 social choice over a set of alternatives must depend on the orderings of the individuals only over these alternatives and not on ‘ irrelevant alternatives ’ ;
10 They quarrelled terribly over that .
11 Wavelets swished idly over white sand and the broad plain of the sea stretched away into darkness .
12 Elise , tall , red-haired and elegant , occupied pole position on the centre-page shot , wearing one of Leonora 's sweaters , a silver fox-head brooch pinned to the scarf thrown carelessly over one shoulder , the interior of the shop in the background .
13 In the southern Appalachians , Cambrian to Devonian sediments were crumpled and thrust northwestwards over Carboniferous and older strata at the end of Carboniferous time to form the Plateaus and Valley and Ridge provinces .
14 In some people ketamine has the potential for compulsive , repeated use ; cases of self administered injections several times daily over prolonged periods have been reported .
15 Through the open door Elisabeth could hear voices in the lane as she and Mother Jacobsen ambled gently over uncontentious topics .
16 Resistance to the French troops who ‘ occupied ’ Spain under cover of the Treaty of Fontainebleau and the national revolution against France which broke out all over unoccupied Spain came , therefore , from those whom the French commanders termed le petil peuple and from those local notables who were outside an administration manned by appointees of Godoy .
17 In the first-ever legal challenge to a space launch , a coalition of anti-nuclear groups charge that Galileo 's generators could rain radioactive waste all over eastern Florida if the shuttle were to explode during takeoff .
18 These results will step up pressure for roundtable talks between party and reformers , along the lines of those held last year all over Eastern Europe .
19 This one was more highbrow than most , bringing together economists from all over Eastern Europe and the West as well .
20 The traditional Diamond fighter kite as flown all over Eastern nations is remarkably controllable even on a single line , though its flight path is limited to a narrow sector of the downwind area .
21 In eastern Germany itself , subscribers are being linked via cellular or microwave radio to newly-installed digital networks , and similar patterns are emerging all over Eastern Europe .
22 God was working a miracle all over Eastern Europe in country after country , and at last they were free .
23 The example illustrated in Fig. 561 is a purely timber log structure of the type built all over eastern Europe till long after the Middle Ages .
24 All over Eastern Europe similar cases could be found , and a similar state of affairs probably holds sway elsewhere .
25 Certainly all over rural Essex everybody was killing pigs and everything surreptitiously .
26 ‘ They would n't be swarming all over Kentish Town , would they , those rats and flies ? ’ demanded Constance , opening the tall wooden gate to the back garden .
27 The following day , March 8 , actions took place all over Occupied Palestine .
28 It was a look copied by would-be sex kittens from sixteen to twenty-six all over Western Europe .
29 Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided .
30 Now that the horses are turned out to pasture again after the winter , the Fargelanda ‘ home guard ’ is again mobilised , and others are being organised all over western Sweden .
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