Example sentences of "[adv] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the 1988 Act , the governing bodies had control only over religious instruction . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wavelets swished idly over white sand and the broad plain of the sea stretched away into darkness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Through the open door Elisabeth could hear voices in the lane as she and Mother Jacobsen ambled gently over uncontentious topics . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This one was more highbrow than most , bringing together economists from all over Eastern Europe and the West as well . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | God was working a miracle all over Eastern Europe in country after country , and at last they were free . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All over Eastern Europe similar cases could be found , and a similar state of affairs probably holds sway elsewhere . |
| 19 | Certainly all over rural Essex everybody was killing pigs and everything surreptitiously . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | The following day , March 8 , actions took place all over Occupied Palestine . |
| 22 | It was a look copied by would-be sex kittens from sixteen to twenty-six all over Western Europe . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Left-wing parties are in trouble all over Western Europe . |
| 26 | It turns out now that reality is coming to countries all over western Europe , and although I 'm s I 'm sorry to see the difficulties that our colleagues and friends in western Europe are having erm they are beginning to realize that one or two aspirations of the so social contracts may be extremely expensive . |
| 27 | In about 1228 Henry moved to the papal court , where he wrote occasional verse for patrons from all over western Europe . |
| 28 | All over western Europe the trend was towards moderately fast growth up to about 1640 . |
| 29 | The arrival of Windows 3.1 , with its embedded True-Type font support , heralded a revolution in the number and quality of typefaces you could slap all over boring statements of accounts . |
| 30 | REPRESENTATIVES from 32 companies from all over Mid Wales met at Coleg Powys , Newtown , to learn about a new state-of-the-art manufacturing method , Just in Time . |