Example sentences of "to [adj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , one legacy of the regime of Councillor Pickles and his colleagues has been a city where the Conservatives have managed to stem the tide to Labour over the past decade . |
| 2 | The best thing to do with that are you you 're more used to erm You 're more used to opposite over adjacent and things like that are n't you . |
| 3 | I mean the Welsh population in percentage terms is now rising more rapidly than that of England and therefore by the year two thousand and one when the next review would take place er we er will certainly fully occupy if you like , that fifth seat in terms of the average size because Welsh Euro constituencies were during the past ten years , very slightly larger on average than those in England and so er we are moving from under representation to slight over representation for a temporary period er simply because er you know Wales is regarded as indivisible for this purpose and that 's why we welcomed this debate . |
| 4 | Alain was played as an idiot who hardly danced at all except to full over his own feet . |
| 5 | The move is needed to secure profitability which has fallen due to world-wide over capacity in uranium enrichment . |
| 6 | you , you get to annoyed over trivial things , so I do n't suppose you 'll change at your age |
| 7 | It was Macha who taught Irish women how to keen over their dead , taking the notes of her own awful cry from the shrieks of widows and groans of women in childbirth . |
| 8 | The stimulatory effect of EGF in the dose range was confirmed ( data not shown ) , with a typically increased in DNA synthesis of eight to 12-fold over basal in the presence of 10 ng/ml EGF . |