Example sentences of "[verb] over [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Describes the great changes that have come over this locality in the course of a few years . |
| 2 | It involved over 37,000 feet of rock climbing at all times of the day and night , and 160 miles of ell running to transport a baton from one climbing team to another . |
| 3 | Alternatively , if the size and density of settlements were uniform throughout the country , then in some areas the dead were being carried over considerable distances for burial . |
| 4 | ‘ At least none of us had carried over any problems from the England game . |
| 5 | He provided over 300 libraries between 1905 and his death in 1912 . |
| 6 | It has been earned over many years through dedicated teamwork and attention to detail . |
| 7 | As I untangled the fishing tackle , I found over three feet of wire line , two hooks and five weights . |
| 8 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
| 9 | The chances of an agreement had appeared slim after indications that the talks were deadlocked over competing demands by various member countries to sell more oil , within an overall output ceiling low enough to push prices higher . |
| 10 | As in the autumn of 1981 , it seemed to be losing its way , with doubts over government support for British Leyland , ministers attacked over repeated strikes by secondary school teachers , and criticisms also over Britain 's support for President Reagan at the time of bombing raids on Libya . |
| 11 | Moreover , the distinction between services and manufacturing has been exaggerated over recent years by the growth of leasing [ Rybczynski , 1982 ] . |
| 12 | Law Society warns over wider role for solicitors |
| 13 | Quickly , fearfully , looking over each shoulder in turn , Li Lu called her to come home . |
| 14 | The going was often helped , considerably , by spongs , wooden walkways built over boggy areas by the Lappish people . |
| 15 | By far the greatest of the new houses was Cowdray , built over several generations by the Earl of Southampton , Sir Anthony Browne and Viscount Montague . |
| 16 | Dharsono , who had been released from prison in September 1990 after serving over four years of a seven-year sentence for subversion [ see p. 37715 ] , said that the FPPS had the support of some 70 leading intellectuals and dissidents . |
| 17 | Subsequent investigations , summarised by Crothers ( 1983b ) , have found that this expression usefully describes the variation seen over most parts of the species ' range in Europe and North America . |
| 18 | Industrial sites are so massive , having grown over many years without appropriate control , so that there are bound to be deficiencies and we aim to have them put right as soon as practicable . |
| 19 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 20 | In fact , the work was never really completed , additions simply being made over many years as the need for extra wards arose . |
| 21 | A minor road skirts its western base but a direct climb from it is ruled out by unremitting steepness and a barrier of rocky buttresses , the ascent usually being made over gentler ground from the north . |
| 22 | Staverman and co-workers ( 1956 ) paid particular attention to approximations to the solution of the integral equations used in the exact theory , since , experimentally , observations can only be made over limited periods of time ( in creep for example ) or limited frequency ranges ( in dynamic methods ) whereas the exact theory of linear viscoelasticity requires the use of infinite integrals . |
| 23 | Tom came over eight days before the 1973 British Open started and he played his first two practice rounds with that great Australian golfer Bruce Crampton . |
| 24 | The principle here is that if particular changes in activity bear a constant relationship to the reference event they will show up against fluctuations of the ongoing EEG which , being " random " , should cancel out to zero when averaged over successive trials by the computer . |
| 25 | It partly corresponds to the asthenosphere , the plastic-like properties of which permits slow ‘ flow ’ of material in response to forces applied over long periods of time ( Fig. 2.7 ) . |
| 26 | Panchromatic gelatine bromide photographic emulsion was then applied over this surface in the dark . |
| 27 | Panchromatic gelatine bromide photographic emulsion was then applied over this surface in the dark . |
| 28 | You will soon discover that a bewildering variety of history books have been written over several decades on the modern period alone . |
| 29 | The play has already been written over several months by an enthusiastic team from all the churches involved ; and by the time of going to press casting will already have taken place and all performing groups : the singers , dancers and actors , will be involved in their own regular rehearsals in March . |
| 30 | But , in the UUAC there was unanimity that it did not wish to preside over that kind of success . |