Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duddy , a flyweight , was a 16–6 winner over the talented Ken Andrews of St Matthew 's but then came a shock in the division when Paddy Brown of Holy Trinity Belfast was beaten . |
| 2 | Has social and economic change over the past two centuries led to a reduction in the actual support which kin give to each other ? |
| 3 | Luckily , there were some trees by the river and Anne saw a low branch over the water . |
| 4 | The blond Australian has been plagued by the worst possible luck over the years . |
| 5 | THE CANADIAN government has made a complete about-face over the regulation of private satellite-TV dishes . |
| 6 | The amount of the effect can be estimated in shale sections and a corrective function over the total affected interval can be applied ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 7 | Police allowed specialist Commercial Union staff to enter the shattered building over the weekend . |
| 8 | It makes us feel that Saint Francis had every other possible advantage over the tramp despite that lifestyle that he led . |
| 9 | Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass . |
| 10 | And of course he 's slept and eaten with that guitar over the past five years . |
| 11 | The archaeology of mining reveals a historic struggle over the sex of miners . |
| 12 | It should not be forgotten that although India has made remarkable economic progress over the last thirty years , it is still a Third World country in which enormous numbers of people live in conditions of severe poverty . |
| 13 | Towards the end of June , Bremen was targeted and the Squadron attack force took-off on the 28th of the month and headed out low level over the sea . |
| 14 | I have been talking to one or two members of s staff at a fairly low level over the last week . |
| 15 | They described the King 's surprise and frustration , for usually the Pope made little difficulty over the annulment of royal marriages . |
| 16 | The panoramic vista over the Thames to Westminster is breathtaking.As I sit , gazing at the glossy art books carefully laid out before me , I become aware of a clipped , militaristic voice behind me . |
| 17 | It 's a frequent irritation however that British television companies are n't obliged to give the credit that is so manifestly due , especially since , in the last few years , the quality and range of recorded music for dramas and documentaries has become as almost diverse as that used in European cinema over the last few decades . |
| 18 | It is easy to put your left toe into the low fuselage-side kick-in step , swing your right foot over the sill and down onto the cockpit floor to settle into the surprisingly upright seat . |
| 19 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 20 | It costs £6,000 per user , upgrades are £1,500 , and ACT expects that at least 50% of its existing Quasar customers will go that route over the next year . |
| 21 | Behind him was the rock-fortress of Stirling guarding the bridge , the narrow crossing over the Forth . |
| 22 | In practical terms , the gates and fence probably have little advantage over the waist-high barrier and high-profile police presence which has effectively sealed Downing Street from the public for eight years . |
| 23 | This brought the total rise over the previous five years to 10 per cent . |
| 24 | There can not be and there should not be any attempt to open up a party political divide over the importance of further reducing tobacco consumption . |
| 25 | Nor is there any serious basis on which it can be argued that there is a party political divide over the particular of reducing tobacco consumption among children . |
| 26 | There , amid the rugged crags and splendid views of six people from the National Park plastering an odd concoction over the footpaths . |
| 27 | Frederica gagged on hers , nauseated by a memory of the foundering black body as the life left the legs , of the crawling sheet of sticky blood over the shoulder under the pics , of trailing hooves and horns dragged over sawdust . |
| 28 | Economic thinking over the last 40 years , the report observed , had shifted dramatically away from the promotion of state-directed industrialization towards a more " market-friendly " approach to development , but " markets sometimes prove inadequate or fail altogether " and " governments must , for example , invest in infrastructure and provide essential services to the poor " . |
| 29 | The news came as British Olympic chiefs demanded that confusion over the status of clenbuterol the drug at the centre of the controversy should be quickly cleared up by their international counterparts . |
| 30 | Prudently , Fox smashed the single working light over the gangpath doorway , and returned to Corridor 11 to watch for her prey . |