Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one thought the speaker should have added that they would not hew wood for Lord Salisbury ; the divisions within the Council which would become so painfully evident over the Boer War were between Gladstonian Liberals and Liberal Imperialists , with the odd Liberal Unionist added for decoration , not between Liberals and Conservatives . |
| 2 | As also has been found for the other two scales , however , the inner city problem has become much more evident over the past decade since the deteriorating situation prompted central government to introduce more comprehensive powers in the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , to the extent that it was identified by the Prime Minister as the single most important challenge for the new Parliament after the 1987 General Election . |
| 3 | Compare this to a putting address position in still conditions where the ball would be opposite to the left heel and the body not so much over the ball ( photo above ) . |
| 4 | Both the Emperor Marcian and his wife Pulcheria played an active part in the meetings : Marcian and Leo found themselves at loggerheads not so much over the dogmatic formulation as over the disciplinary canons that were appended . |
| 5 | However , this pretty , ignorant and idiotic slave was also required to exercise mastery ; not so much over the children , whose lord was once again the pater familias , as over the servants , whose presence distinguished the bourgeois from his social inferiors . |
| 6 | Derrick Cooper went past a Nick Faldo who found his new swing was not as successful over the last two rounds . |
| 7 | The men around Nixon who planned the escapade were not elected professional politicians , but mainly " west coast advertising types " concerned only to sell their " product " and not too worried over the means by which they achieved this end . |
| 8 | Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles . |
| 9 | First , the banal but important point that things were not that bad over the 1960s for the mass of the electorate , so that those Labour voters who had neither expected not desired revolutionary socialism had no real reason to feel betrayed . |
| 10 | Some of the leaseholders were also remarkably stable over the generations , families such as the Braynes , the Groomes , the Tylers , the Juxes and the Formstons . |
| 11 | The Kazakhstan President , Nursultan Nazarbayev , was also initially unenthusiastic over the exclusively Slav composition of the Commonwealth , and at a meeting on Dec. 9 between Nazarbayev , Gorbachev and Yeltsin , who was acting as the envoy of the Commonwealth , he said that Gorbachev was still needed as a central force . |
| 12 | As had become customary in times of financial uncertainty , Nik Powell took it upon himself to ‘ sort out ’ the accounts , as he had sorted out so much over the years , from feuding gangs in Bold Street to disputative bank managers . |
| 13 | Things have become far more sophisticated over the last fifty years , of course — from slowing down Clapton 's licks on record ( while 16RPM was still a reality ) to units like this one . |
| 14 | Mr McAvoy said : ‘ Ultimately , the campaign 's purpose is to persuade the Government to change its existing policy on an issue which will become even more sensitive over the next 12 months . ’ |
| 15 | Truman was initially less enthusiastic over the appointment owing to criticisms expressed by Dulles in the previous campaign in New York state . |
| 16 | However , I would not find myself being quite so complementary over the contents of this particular volume . |
| 17 | Deterrence is almost as low over the internal security band , as the rising rate of violent crime in our so-called civilized societies and the current Israeli difficulties with the Palestinians demonstrate . |
| 18 | The disagreement here is at least partially one over the use of words . |
| 19 | The broadsheet populars comprised a middle market — middle class and middle brow — which became steadily less distinguishable over the following decade . |