Example sentences of "and over [art] [noun] of the " in BNC.

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1 I was reading some gimcrack book about economics , full of those pictograms that fall half-way between diagrams and drawings , when I heard the thudding of a diesel engine running under the roar of the gale coming in off the sea and over the whirr of the fan heater that was marinading my feet .
2 The man tumbled on forward and over the edge of the track , a scattering of rocks heard through his scream and the splash as he hit the water eighty feet below .
3 Instinctively drawing in his limbs and curling his long back , the Perk sailed out of her grasp and over the edge of the steps like a furry stone in a leather jerkin .
4 They have to go very steady and to the right of the first , to the left of the second and over the top of the last .
5 Roll it out on a board , dusted with a little icing sugar , to a rough triangle large enough to wrap around and over the top of the cake .
6 One even had a flagpole and over the top of the trees below I could see the Union Jack fluttering .
7 Not surprisingly British ministers continued to deal warily with the United States , concerned both for their own freedom of action and over the reliability of the Americans as friends .
8 Normally London left Stormont to get on with these policies , only intervening in 1969 at the time of the civil rights movement when there was a clear danger of a collapse of law and order due to disputes between Catholics and Protestants over local government , over the allocation of houses and of jobs and over the conduct of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and of the armed ‘ B ’ special reserves .
9 This would be mildly surprising given that the primary emphasis of both the Old and New Testaments is of man 's ‘ dominion over the fish of the sea , and over the fowl of the air , and over the cattle , and over all the earth ’ ( Gen. 1 v. 26 ) .
10 Once the parents had been shown how to carry out the technique they became more confident in using it and over the course of the next two weeks Mary stopped physically attacking her sister .
11 Other modules and integrated products will roll out on April 27 and over the course of the year .
12 Other modules and integrated products will roll-out on the 27th and over the course of the year .
13 Adenauer was encouraging and over the course of the summer French and German officials began consultations with officials from the other four nations .
14 Chips became part of the British diet during the 19th century and over the course of the next hundred years , according to the Frozen Food Information Service , fish and chips became not only a national institution , but also a vital source of nutrition for the working class .
15 So whatever the numerical distribution of jobs or of unemployment , the tentacles of control over those jobs , and over the functioning of the economy as a whole , in the main lead back — if they stay within Britain at all — to London .
16 Dave talked right on and over the start of the lyric , and then made it worse by trying to pretend that his mistake was intentional .
17 Very gently the two women drew the light quilt away , sliding it from under the arm of the sleeper , drawing it down at both sides , peeling it off and over the end of the bed .
18 The new permissive society differs from its Victorian predecessor not only by virtue of its sexual and moral freedom , but also because it is characterised by lack of agreement over questions of morality , and over the role of the state in the enforcement of morals .
19 It is perhaps significant that whereas Haycocks I eventually produced a DES Circular , this one was issued only as an ACSTT Report , endorsed by the Advisory Committee as a whole and over the signature of the Chairman of the Sub-Committee .
20 Over and over the events of the day I go , vainly searching for where I went wrong …
21 Among the remaining trees , which would one day distinguish themselves in avenues and parks , and over the heads of the labouring workmen rose clouds of parakeets and honey-eaters searching for food .
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