Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like seeing that female body preserved whole in sand in the British Museum , as one feels it should not be , its reddish leathery skin peeling from its temples , crispings of dead gingery hair over its ears . |
| 2 | The first , which is , of course , also a point of particular although not exclusive concern to large numbers of less well-off people over pension age , is the further large increase in the special income support limits for those in residential care and nursing homes . |
| 3 | It provides lots of building materials-type stuff of American origin that are of only limited use over here , but since it is meant only to be a very basic application , better suited to a visualisation rather than a concrete architectural drawing ( forgive the pun , by the way ) , this hardly matters . |
| 4 | GOOD to see ( New Scientist , 28 April , p 203 ) that citation indexing is at last being considered seriously as an aid towards more reasonable decisions over research funding in Britain . |
| 5 | It means that , by a certain amount of fairly skilful organization over the year , you 're meeting a good cross-section of senior and middle management . |
| 6 | There is also a great deal of quite justified apprehension over what is in store in the coming months . |
| 7 | Their strategy for the achievement of this objective ‘ was essentially one of sustained ideological warfare in the context of steadily escalating action over concrete disputes with management ’ ( ibid. , p. 313 ) . |
| 8 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 9 | She looked up , and became aware of the vault of faintly luminous sky over them , and the silence . |
| 10 | Eric and Marie Hanby , aged 60 and 61 , were acquitted on 11 charges of cruelly ill-treating children over a 24-year period , 1967–1991 . |
| 11 | I have to confess extreme disappointment with most new versions over the last few years , making my pleasure in the newcomer even greater . |
| 12 | Tonight will see most of the rain and snow die away , with only occasional showers over the higher ground and in the east of the region . |
| 13 | Pointing to the increased vote for the fascist Republican Party in the Baden Wurtemburg regional election in Germany on Sunday , he said introduction of proportional representation in Britain , coupled with less rigorous controls over immigrants and bogus asylum-seekers , could unleash extremists . |
| 14 | A good system for storing electricity will not become possible before 1995 , Meanwhile , the date for artificial intelligence is shunted back 20 years to 2020 and the time for weather control is 2030 instead of 2015 , All kinds of obstacles , not so much technological as human and economic , have interfered with the 1962 predictions , as with many others that people have made with seemingly unimpeachable authority over the past 50 years . |
| 15 | Its input impedance when terminated in the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) is On using equation ( 9.1 ) again , this relation reduces to Thus the network of figure 9.11(b) terminated in the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) presents impedance at its input terminals , precisely the required termination for constant-k or m-derived T-sections. since the impedance given by equation ( 9.66 ) is very close to over 85% of the pass band when m = 0.6 , the half-section of figure 9.11(b) with m = 0.6 interposed between a fixed resistance and the output of a constant-k or m-derived T-section will provide the T-section with virtually correct termination over most of the pass band . |
| 16 | It is an elegant , comfortable house , with a most attractive landscaped garden which descends the hillside in steps , with very fine views over the Avon valley . |
| 17 | A recent study has shown that with very careful training over the course of five months , babies between 8½ and 10½ months of age can be taught to indicate their need to defecate or pass urine ( Sweets et al . |
| 18 | One member would be invited to introduce a subject ( agreed at the previous meeting ) , followed by a discussion for an hour or so before more general discussion over a buffet supper . |
| 19 | Mirth being in decidedly short supply over the past few weeks amidst the myriad financial scandals and news of the ongoing long-gingering of the gay law reform bill , there was no doubt among the many disappointed punters turned away from the full house on opening night that they were still intent on partying on down at Cork 's new lesbian and gay centre , The Other Place . |
| 20 | Thus developed in Lebanon a pattern of events which was to recreate itself in increasingly savage form over the coming years . |
| 21 | It may involve the agency 's casting team ( which may be a specialist in a large agency , but is usually the creative group head and the TV producer in a small one ) in seemingly endless poring over directories of actors , and actually seeing a large number of them before a decision can be made . |
| 22 | A template had been forged which was subject to only minor modifications over time . |
| 23 | To derive appropriate interpretations for its input , a natural language processing ( NLP ) system must take account not only of absolute constraints on possible structures and meanings but also of preferences that serve not to rule out individual readings as inherently unacceptable , but to give priority to more acceptable readings over less acceptable ones . |
| 24 | We will insist on more effective control over Community spending and will resist pressure to extend Community competence to new areas . |
| 25 | In summary , the evidence shows that the shape of kin groups is subject to very significant variation over the course of time . |
| 26 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 27 | The role of the human eye was limited to selecting , among randomly mutated progeny over many generations of cumulative evolution . |
| 28 | Dozens of studies of the genetic material itself , the DNA , and the proteins it encodes , indicate that these change in a random statistical fashion , but at fairly steady rates over evolutionary time . |
| 29 | Instead that sense has to be nurtured by more direct experience over a long period of time . |