Example sentences of "[vb infin] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that . |
| 2 | mind you do n't fall over that |
| 3 | Well , Mr Davis can mull over that while he 's having his cup of tea , and then we 'll come straight to Mr Sedgewick and Mr Donson after tea . |
| 4 | Because we 're now gon na wipe over that now ? |
| 5 | ‘ It is beyond belief this could happen over such a petty row . |
| 6 | No one any longer seriously believes that Marie and Eleanor actually did preside over such tribunals . |
| 7 | A parade through the town involving local youngsters , Middlesbrough FC stars Mark Proctor and Curtis Fleming , floats , fire engines and council vehicles will make its way to Central Gardens where TV presenter Paul Frost , will preside over open-air activities . |
| 8 | What an irony that a king renowned for his piety , who prefaced some of his legislation by alluding to his duty to defend the church , and who sought a quick end to his wars in order to pursue the crusade , should preside over these changes ! |
| 9 | And you had to do all that dusting and keep it and you 'd read over all these things , every time you dusted until you got to know them . |
| 10 | The problem here is that none of the gas , water , or electric supply lines must cross over each other . |
| 11 | As you would imagine , if you saw your youngster tottering towards Beachy Head and was about to fall off , and if there was a notice there that said you must n't cross over this fence as you are guilty of trespassing , but you saw your child falling , what would you do — stay this side of the line because it was the law ? |
| 12 | These new measures will actively encourage unscrupulous employers to further exploit over two and a half million low paid in this country , mostly of them women . |
| 13 | If a good view demands squatting , climbing or even lying flat or crawling to gain a vantage point then the professional need should prevail over personal comfort . |
| 14 | Society , then , is not to be understood in terms of a simple hierarchy , but as a continual struggle over the hierarchy of hier-archies ; that is , whether , in this case , that of wealth should prevail over that of knowledge . |
| 15 | Hence if a registered shareholder , A , first executes a transfer to a purchaser , B , and later to another , C , while both remain unregistered B will have priority over C. If , however , C succeeds in obtaining registration before B , he will have priority over B so long as he had no notice , at the time of purchase , of the transfer to B. If C did have notice , although he has been registered his prima facie title will not prevail over that of B who will be entitled to have the register rectified ( assuming that there are no grounds on which the company could refuse to register B ) and in the meantime C 's legal interest will be subject to the equitable interest of B. If both transfers were gifts , the position would presumably be different ; the gift to B would leave A without any beneficial interest that he could give to C and , not being a ‘ purchaser , ’ C could not obtain priority by registration ; his legal interest , on his becoming the registered holder , would be subject to the prior equity of B. |
| 16 | The greatest victory for the Sandinistas , he said , was that a new path was opening for the Nicaraguan people without war and where national interests would prevail over interventionist policies . |
| 17 | That would not result in ‘ alien procedures ’ on foreign soil , so the interests of the foreign country did not prevail over those of the United States litigant . |
| 18 | The Power of Human Logic Must Prevail Over Blind Faith |
| 19 | Coase ( 1937 ) argued that familiar tools of economic analysis could be used to explain why one system of organizing transactions would prevail over another . |
| 20 | But this autonomy for stage agencies is relative , since in the last instance the requirements of capitalism as an economic system will always prevail over any contradictory state policies , even supposing that these should reach the point of being explicitly formulated . |
| 21 | The terms of this order are to govern any contract between the Buyer and Seller and shall prevail over any terms put forward by the Seller , unless the Buyer expressly agrees to them in writing . |
| 22 | The drafter may try to protect his/her client in the battle of the forms by including an appropriate provision in the terms such as : The terms of this order are to govern any contract between the Buyer and Seller and shall prevail over any terms put forward by the Seller , unless the Buyer expressly agrees to them in writing . |
| 23 | It would seem that compactness and design can not prevail over human factors , so that the need for a visible , multi-access central system that also facilitates mutual support takes precedence . |
| 24 | Analogies to the North Atlantic Oscillation , the much cited ocean-circulation link to climate , can not apply over such distances . |
| 25 | Accelerated graphics cards , like the Renoir NT , perform some of the work in a graphics co-processor , but how well do they work , and what other advantages does the NT have over other VGA cards ? |
| 26 | It does , interestingly , erm , as I think I mentioned earlier , it does associate with other auto-immune diseases and thus one can have somebody with miocenia gravis who may themselves have over active thyroid , which is an auto-immune disease , or may have other members of the family with the same disorder . |
| 27 | They are simply too expensive to run and maintain over such a long distance . |
| 28 | Er it 's difficult for people to appreciate today er the amount of political activity that took place during this early thirty period , and it 's pe difficult for people to appreciate the political understanding that did exist over this period . |
| 29 | This could debar over one-third of the population from voting , since , according to the current regulations , only citizens of pre-war Estonia and their descendants were automatically entitled to citizenship , and the long application process for others would not be completed in time . |
| 30 | I think that 's a prudent way of going about things , it 's responsive t to the questions which you might possibly have read and but it does n't make over optimistic assessments about the likely savings that the council control . |