Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But inflation should fall further over the medium-term . |
| 2 | Where the aim is to sustain cost leadership over the longer term , rather than to gain a short-term advantage through temporarily having , say , more modern equipment , one must look ahead over the life-cycle of the market ( however narrowly or broadly defined ) . |
| 3 | The privatisation of the electricity supply in England and Wales means that power companies must compete fiercely over the supply of power to the national grid . |
| 4 | All the small modifications should add up over a period of time to make major achievements . |
| 5 | If I have to listen to one more candidate telling me he sees the job as a challenge I 'll throw up over the boardroom table . |
| 6 | But I 'll think better over a pastis . |
| 7 | It will get infected without a covering — and besides , ’ he added , with a small smile , ‘ you 'll bleed all over the inside of my car otherwise . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll go all over the world with you , ’ he cried . |
| 9 | Next time it might come down over the centre of a large city . ’ |
| 10 | Come on , let's get the others moving before a man comes with a hrududu or they 'll scatter all over the place . " |
| 11 | You better get a sheet of newspaper Jean , old newspaper because that 'll fly all over the floor . |
| 12 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 13 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 14 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 15 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 16 | From the top you could see right over the seaside resort out into the countryside beyond . |
| 17 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 18 | They got a new one , they had another , then they had another idea then , they came round and had erm , had , turned round and said , right they done away with part of the wire and they got another big wheel so you can go right over the top next time , they done away with the big hook , so you could shackle your , your chain on to the wire , then you could go right over the top and then they get the old short chains like that . |
| 19 | Once established , the pattern could spread all over the body , until it reached the condition we know today . |
| 20 | No I 'd come all over the place personally . |
| 21 | ‘ They 'd shed all over the plumbing , ’ I said . |
| 22 | Interpreting these counts needs care , particularly those for the winter , when very marked fluctuations have been recorded , for , unlike most other waders , the wintering Black-tailed Godwits may move about over the whole of the estuarine complex from Pagham Harbour to Portsmouth Harbour in Hampshire . |
| 23 | But just as the overall form of our body remains the same , despite the constant replacement of the atoms and molecules of which it is made , so is the overall form of nature maintained as identifiably the same old physical universe , though the pattern may alter markedly over the course of time . |
| 24 | And he he stowed with er stayed with the Ogilveys at Fortar He stayed er at night , so that was Oh and he used to walk all over the countryside . |
| 25 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 26 | It is tempting to hang on to the launch , thinking that it will pick up speed , but if you do you may arrive almost over the end of the field with very little height or speed — an awkward situation . |
| 27 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |
| 28 | The review continues that work but we shall go back over the ground to make sure that the newer regulations we have introduced include as little red tape as possible , ’ said . |
| 29 | They would tour all over the country for wages of a few shillings a week . |
| 30 | If I had it , I would go all over the country and have an experience . |