Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is merely the application of some basic rules of human behaviour that researchers have uncovered over the last hundred years or so . |
| 2 | In 1912 , a geophysicist , Wegener , published a book in which he proposed the theory that continents had moved over the surface of the earth . |
| 3 | Some of them hardly bat an eyelid , but explain that quails do migrate over the Sinai peninsula , and that they often settle on the ground in large numbers and can be caught very easily . |
| 4 | Although arguments continue to rage over the effects of nitrogen on health , once digested through food or water it is suspected of having links with blue baby syndrome by reducing the oxygen -carrying capacity of the blood , and cancers of the stomach and oesophagus . |
| 5 | The public appears unaware that departments have moved over the years from a production orientation , where individuals were matched to available services , to a marketing orientation where departments seek to establish customers ' needs through individual assessment and meet them individually by care management . |
| 6 | Chinese philsophers , gourmets and poets have produced over the centuries an extensive literature devoted to tea and its presumed effects upon the body and soul . |
| 7 | Many feature and food writers from various newspapers and magazines have tried over the years to obtain information and interviews and all have been denied . |
| 8 | Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches . |
| 9 | At the time there were parents and children waiting to cross over the crossing and it could have been much more serious . |
| 10 | It may be correct that these properties would fall into this Band at 1993 values , but values have risen over the past two years ( despite national trends in house prices ) . |
| 11 | Lawyers have not usually been slow in their individual involvement with causes and with legal reform , but questions have arisen over the extent to which it is proper to intervene in socio-legal problems as part of a professional service . |
| 12 | The crisis only seems to eased because of ruthless conference management and because Tories have looked over the precipice and seen the disastrous consequences of disunity . |