Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOME of the gloom over the holiday trade lifted yesterday with the devaluation of the Italian lira and Spanish peseta . |
| 2 | And he curled up , pulling some of the blanket over him . |
| 3 | She slid the tray on to the table with a jolt , slopping some of the coffee over the edge of the cups . |
| 4 | If we could send some of the people over there , to help them to retrain things and reorganise things . |
| 5 | I 've put some of the bricks over one side , so that 'll eliminate getting rid of one side of them . |
| 6 | ‘ Stick this against the wall over there and turn it on . |
| 7 | One was on the bench at the front , another atop the tarpaulin over the hold . |
| 8 | And that 's no different from the uncertainty over winning the multi-million contract with Tashenu 's . |
| 9 | This concern has been manifest in the debate over intergenerational conflict about access to resources . |
| 10 | The heads of these offices might be men of authority and influence , but they owed little of this to the departments over which they presided . |
| 11 | She notes that the Heinz family has been extraordinarily generous to the gallery over the years . |
| 12 | These children are oblivious to the row over badgers and TB , for them there 's just the magic of seeing the cubs at close range . |
| 13 | Western politicians do not seem to have learned any lesson from these events , particularly not the fact that , until Arab regimes become acceptable to the populations over which they rule , they will continue to be unstable , repressive and no basis for effective collective security . |
| 14 | Stretch this around the holder over the half hole , to form a gripper , and press drawing pins through the rubber into the material between the holes to maintain tension . |
| 15 | ‘ I could phone him with a problem and he had such insight that he could steer me through it , although he knew very little of the problems over here . ’ |
| 16 | He was conciliatory towards the Lords over jurisdiction and towards the Crown over prerogative . |
| 17 | Faith , still hesitant of the water-crossing over the Timor Sea , met us in Hawaii and travelled with us to Denpasar , Indonesia . |
| 18 | While that 's clearly the most important consideration for each of the districts over the next few months , while the selection process is going on , er bearing in mind what 's said in P P G three , we regard that as axiomatic and I I find it inconceivable that the the department would allow any new settlement to proceed nowadays without the agreement of the district council . |
| 19 | No organisation with a growth rate as rapid as that of the Trust over the past decade can afford to ignore the risks associated with size . |
| 20 | The history of St Mary 's and that of the town over which it presides have been bound together since the Middle Ages , and the church 's sober , dignified presence was to form part of Coleridge 's earliest recollections of childhood . |
| 21 | By analogy , one might argue that in a democracy in which the people are , in effect , sovereign , the only effective restraint in the last resort is likely to be that of the people over themselves . |
| 22 | Much of the conflict over the nature of authority since Vatican II derives from the manner in which it was exercised by Rome in the first half of the twentieth century , and particularly during the pontificate of Pius XII . |
| 23 | This astonishing success , considering the size of his forces and the difficulty of much of the terrain over which he fought , only succeeded in outraging Alfonso , who seems to have believed — or been persuaded to believe — that El Cid intended to set up a rival kingdom in Valencia . |
| 24 | As such , much of the debate over homosexuality was intimately bound up with the wider argument that has already been identified over the role and significance of the modern ‘ nuclear ’ or ‘ bourgeois ’ family . |
| 25 | Much of the debate over economic policy was thought to have centred on the level of provincial autonomy which should be allowed ; the provinces were generally thought to favour a more radical pace of economic reform than the centre . |
| 26 | The area is being remapped by the BGS and new 1:50 000 maps will be available for much of the area over the next decade . |
| 27 | I was bored with the arguments over the map . |
| 28 | They were particularly visible in the campaigns over the Industrial Schools Amendment Bill . |
| 29 | Elected for Northamptonshire to the second Protectorate Parliament ( 1656–8 ) , he was prominent in the debates over the alleged ‘ horrid blasphemy ’ at Bristol of the Quaker James Nayler [ q.v. ] , revealing thereby the limitations of his own toleration . |
| 30 | These would be central to the arguments over defence policy that resounded or echoed through the State Department and Pentagon until the beginning of July 1950 . |