Example sentences of "[adv] over [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wood has learned enough over the years about badgers to be able to get in as close as just a foot or two . |
| 2 | The formation of financial conglomerates , embodying commercial banking , stock-broking , market making , fund management etc , raise concerns not only over a clash of interests between conglomerate and client but also over a clash of obligations owed by the conglomerate to two or more clients . |
| 3 | The outcome was clearly welcomed by those with liberal sentiments : for however much one may deplore the sexual activities of young teenagers , there can surely be little doubt that the protection of such a girl from an unwanted pregnancy must be a matter of primary importance , and , therefore , if need be , have precedence not only over the right of parents to give or withhold consent , but even over the right to information regarding their child , for whom they are legally responsible . |
| 4 | However , this is not expected to happen for some time and even when reform is introduced , the probability is that it will be phased in over a number of years . |
| 5 | This benefit , phased in over a number of years , came fully into operation in 1979 , and replaced child tax allowances and family allowances . |
| 6 | Any new planting was designed to be phased in over a period of years , planting schemes having to take account of the need to create a distinctive landscape for the immediate future as well as for the long term . |
| 7 | In other cases , a partner 's contribution may be agreed to be collected in over a period of years out of his profit share . |
| 8 | It is much better to build up endurance levels gradually and gently over a period of weeks and months . |
| 9 | All over a pair of shoes , I ask you . |
| 10 | There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers . |
| 11 | all over the floor like ribbons and strings , |
| 12 | With the other he dipped what looked like a hearthbrush into the bucket then flung its load of holy-water drops all over the pile of stones . |
| 13 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 14 | The seminar brought together thirty personnel from all over the country for discussions and presentations looking at the challenge the new millennium will bring . |
| 15 | They would tour all over the country for wages of a few shillings a week . |
| 16 | It would be all over the organisation in minutes . |
| 17 | ‘ If it was true there 'd be people all over the world with pigs with their teeth sunk in them . ’ |
| 18 | The thousands of items on her shopping list are brought in from all over the world in quantities that could feed a small town — 70 tonnes of sausages , 300 tonnes of tomatoes , 250,000 pints of milk , six million eggs and 350,000 litres of fresh orange juice . |
| 19 | Species superficially resembling Terebratula maxima may be found all over the world in rocks going back at least to the Jurassic period . |
| 20 | A company called Worldwide Tours produces a publication called Special Interest Tours , which covers holidays all over the world in categories from Adventure/Activity to Wine Tasting Festivals . |
| 21 | Finally , I put in the hair that protrudes from all over the place on elephants . |
| 22 | Finally , I put in the hair that protrudes from all over the place on elephants . |
| 23 | All over the place like rabbits . ’ |
| 24 | You know how a man can say nothing and you hear it all over the house for weeks ? |
| 25 | ‘ There were people climbing all over the graves with cameras . |
| 26 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 27 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
| 28 | Fibrous tissue replaces this , the capillaries heal and contract down over a period of months to leave a linear scar . |
| 29 | The heir to the throne , a shy , sensitive boy , was often held upside down over the lavatory by schoolmates who delighted in pulling the chain . |
| 30 | Perhaps over a period of months , even years , the yearning grew to escape . |