Example sentences of "[noun] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was appalled at their habits , saying they just covered up the dirt by placing new rushes over the old , thus covering the dirt and filth which was caused by animals wandering in and out of the houses . |
| 2 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 3 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 4 | They were able to respond swiftly because they already have a secret ballot strike mandate over an ongoing pay dispute . |
| 5 | 95% of drivers/riders over the legal limit are male . |
| 6 | Strain the custard over the tangerine pulp and stir in the dissolved gelatine . |
| 7 | The 25th FAO conference in Rome in November 1989 adopted a regular budget of US$569,000,000 for 1990/91 , an increase of $77,000,000 over the previous biennium [ see p. 36957 ] . |
| 8 | Just sometimes , this one had crimson nails , left over from the other , who wore a tight black skirt and a black jacket with padded shoulders over a pink silk shirt and was carefully made up with pink and brown eyeshadow , brushed blusher along the cheekbone and plummy lips . |
| 9 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 10 | Anyone who studies academic standards in our schools over the past 20 years must recognise that there have been considerable improvements . |
| 11 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 12 | In the following year , Maurice Peston told a committee of the House of Commons that ‘ those who doubt the innovatory possibilities of British education and the capacity of the DES and the LEAs to help things forward should study the CNAA and the polytechnics over the past decade . |
| 13 | On 7 June 1972 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ) issued a standard on asbestos exposure at work which took effect over a four-year period to 1 July 1976 . |
| 14 | This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised . |
| 15 | You can generate the dust by rubbing the Polychromos Pastels against fine sandpaper , a practical use for small remnant pieces that would otherwise be difficult to use up , or you can do as I do and spread the dust from very lightly applied pastel strokes , placed to allow a very deliberate development of the effect over a localised area . |
| 16 | This ends just before the large A4031 bridge from which the canal emerges to cross over an aqueduct over a minor road with a public house below on the left and then crosses over another aqueduct over the railway main line through Birmingham . |
| 17 | ( The Regional Council already propose the upgrading of the towpath EAST of Wester Hailes , and of the short section from Calders Cres. to the aqueduct over the new city bypass , so eventually we shall have an almost continuous route to/from the city centre ) . |
| 18 | Because of the migration of mackerel over the notional dividing line between eastern and western zones , British fishermen had been faced with dwindling numbers of a healthy species . |
| 19 | The Government did however put in a £200 million investment programme over a four-year period ( the previous annual average , apart from one missile development programme , had been £5 million ) . |
| 20 | Thanks largely to our supporters around the world , we in UNICEF have put everything we can into our worldwide immunisation programme over the past few years . |
| 21 | I met the management of Trent Buses , which operates in a very competitive , deregulated environment , and I am glad to say that its investment programme over the past five years has been impressive . |
| 22 | ‘ The convulsion of war has opened our eyes to many strange things ’ , he wrote in 1919 , ‘ Few of us had realised till war had exposed it how thin is the veneer of civilisation over the underlying animal proclivities … the failure of religion to direct , and education to balance , the actions of men . ’ |
| 23 | Ruth stood before the screened fireplace in her duchess gown , drinking her tea , the focus for all the eyes which constantly rose and came to her , and the old smiles which lifted up the lips over the discoloured , sharp old teeth . |
| 24 | Benzie ( 1991 ) outlined a number of doubts over the general prospects for international bond issuance . |
| 25 | Given the comments above , we would have our doubts over the likely benefits for sectors that are heavily exposed to Europe . |
| 26 | By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life . |
| 27 | May I wish my hon. and learned Friend well in getting proper safeguards over the vexed problem of undisclosed sites ? |
| 28 | On the evidence of his prolific plundering over the opening furlongs only those with a penchant for an eggy face would do so with any lack of compunction . |
| 29 | Environmental quality appraisals over the past 30 years showed that the nuclear industry had had an " inconsiderable " effect on the country 's environment , he said . |
| 30 | In fact , in 1932–33 , without all the goals of the FFYP having been achieved , 6.7 million workers and employees were working in Soviet factories , an increase of more than 110% over that of 1928 , and of 65% over the planned number of workers ! |