Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When ‘ scarce anything [ was ] more likely to mar a … man 's reputation than to be thought opposed or indifferent to the cause of abolition , but when slavery was a distant and foreign institution , the urge to respectability could predominate over the vital flame in antislavery . |
| 2 | Mr Portillo , at 38 the youngest Cabinet member since Dr David Owen , who was also 38 when he was made Foreign Secretary in 1977 , replaces Mr David Mellor , the new Heritage Minister , who presided over a significant increase in public spending in the run up to the election . |
| 3 | She has challenged certain long-established political assumptions : that a government could not be re-elected if it presided over a massive increase in unemployment ; or that a government had to govern with the consent and co-operation of the major interests , particularly business and the unions . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , IBM Corp shares plunged $5.50 to $72.50 on the day the company reported a stunning net loss after charges for the third quarter of $2,778m last week and scepticism rose over the prompt promise in the analysts ' call after the announcement that the dividend is safe . |
| 5 | After peeling the rest of the scalp backwards , they pored over the well-demarcated fracture in the skull . |
| 6 | Ajayi was in the games room still , hunkered over the small table in her furs , huge as a bear , perched on a small stool all but hidden beneath the furs and cloths which smothered her old frame . |
| 7 | Even so , I ca n't help noticing the occasional clanger in films made by non-wildlife departments — a recent example being bee-eaters calling over the English countryside in winter . |
| 8 | Where matters of law and equity conflict , the principle of equity applicable prevails over the legal principle in the case . |
| 9 | The six-year-old triumphed over the Scottish track in July , running on strongly to beat Minizen Music over five furlongs on heavy ground . |
| 10 | He had thrown his clothes on the floor , spilled his food , deliberately kicked over the stinking pail in the first weeks and suffered terribly for his defiance . |
| 11 | They left Riverboat Island a few minutes later , walked over the wide bridge in silence . |
| 12 | The remains of engine houses and mining shafts are found over a wide area in this region , as well as ‘ rakes ’ long fissures stretching for miles across the landscape , where miners extracted ore from narrow veins in the carboniferous limestone . |
| 13 | Figure 18.4 shows , by means of five-year moving averages of deaths per million in England and Wales , how the disease has behaved over a long period in relation to other serious illnesses . |
| 14 | Local authorities had the power to build houses for sale and to sell houses originally built for renting before 1980 , but the proportion of dwellings sold was relatively slight until the Conservative government of 1970–4 presided over a substantial upsurge in sales . |
| 15 | The Countess d'Agoult , better known perhaps under her nom de plume of Daniel Stern , presided over a republican circle in her fine house on the Champs Elysées , while Juliette Adam , married to a rich banker and later to become the mistress of the republican politician Gambetta , maintained an equally republican salon in her ( less grand ) apartment on the Boulevard Poissonière . |
| 16 | There can be little doubt that , in terms of property development , the LDDC has indeed presided over a dramatic transformation in London 's Docklands . |
| 17 | However , the most damning indictment of the Conservative government 's record in housing is that it has presided over a massive increase in homelessness . |
| 18 | Both Labour and Conservative governments since the Second World War have presided over a massive expansion in building , including 21 new English towns — three in the North-East . |
| 19 | The purpose of the research is to examine the factors which have influenced the rapid growth of subcontracting over the past decade in certain sectors . |
| 20 | The work was to be completed over the whole country in fifteen years . |
| 21 | I found myself mentally putting aside half the afternoon for the task as I struggled over the incomprehensible jargon in my handbook . |
| 22 | Police were waiting on the streets and the square was turned into a dangerous , slippery ‘ ice rink ’ as water was sprayed over the hallowed ground in an effort to deter the demonstrators . |
| 23 | The surf was a distant wash of noise , rolling over the sparkling machair in invisible waves . |
| 24 | A rope had been thrown over a low beam in the room and tied to the top of the Bookman 's cage . |
| 25 | Stirling ordered the crews to take up formation and , bumping over the rough ground in the moonlight , they headed for the airfield . |
| 26 | Her hair , which looked as if it had been inexpertly permed , was pulled back at the sides but frizzed over the high forehead in the poodle-like fashion of an Edwardian . |
| 27 | He loomed over the prostrate man in the bed . |
| 28 | The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland . |