Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But inflation should fall further over the medium-term . |
| 2 | Where the aim is to sustain cost leadership over the longer term , rather than to gain a short-term advantage through temporarily having , say , more modern equipment , one must look ahead over the life-cycle of the market ( however narrowly or broadly defined ) . |
| 3 | The privatisation of the electricity supply in England and Wales means that power companies must compete fiercely over the supply of power to the national grid . |
| 4 | If I have to listen to one more candidate telling me he sees the job as a challenge I 'll throw up over the boardroom table . |
| 5 | It will get infected without a covering — and besides , ’ he added , with a small smile , ‘ you 'll bleed all over the inside of my car otherwise . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll go all over the world with you , ’ he cried . |
| 7 | Next time it might come down over the centre of a large city . ’ |
| 8 | Come on , let's get the others moving before a man comes with a hrududu or they 'll scatter all over the place . " |
| 9 | You better get a sheet of newspaper Jean , old newspaper because that 'll fly all over the floor . |
| 10 | Then he could think back over the rising and understand and admit its weaknesses and set himself to imagine a better future … |
| 11 | Those leafing through their history books for an earlier model for the current recession could linger fruitfully over the pages that cover the 1870s . |
| 12 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 13 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 14 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 15 | From the top you could see right over the seaside resort out into the countryside beyond . |
| 16 | From its leafy canopy he could see right over the gardens and the wilderness of the lower grounds to the rows of cobbled streets on the far side of the beck wall . |
| 17 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
| 18 | As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt . |
| 19 | She kicked off her shoes on the carpet , and slid back silently to listen down the well of the staircase ; and picking up from this level only minor and ambiguous sounds , she went quickly down again one floor , to where she could lean cautiously over the glossy black banister , and train both eyes and ears upon any activity in the hall below . |
| 20 | It is amazing that , although agriculture in general faces cuts , if the proposals were adopted the CAP could cost more over the next seven years than it does now . |
| 21 | They got a new one , they had another , then they had another idea then , they came round and had erm , had , turned round and said , right they done away with part of the wire and they got another big wheel so you can go right over the top next time , they done away with the big hook , so you could shackle your , your chain on to the wire , then you could go right over the top and then they get the old short chains like that . |
| 22 | Once established , the pattern could spread all over the body , until it reached the condition we know today . |
| 23 | And er at the end of it I think we all felt we knew where we were going , and , and what the work that we 'd put in over the last three years on the management procedures , which form the foundations of our quality system . |
| 24 | No I 'd come all over the place personally . |
| 25 | ‘ They 'd shed all over the plumbing , ’ I said . |
| 26 | Interpreting these counts needs care , particularly those for the winter , when very marked fluctuations have been recorded , for , unlike most other waders , the wintering Black-tailed Godwits may move about over the whole of the estuarine complex from Pagham Harbour to Portsmouth Harbour in Hampshire . |
| 27 | But just as the overall form of our body remains the same , despite the constant replacement of the atoms and molecules of which it is made , so is the overall form of nature maintained as identifiably the same old physical universe , though the pattern may alter markedly over the course of time . |
| 28 | And he he stowed with er stayed with the Ogilveys at Fortar He stayed er at night , so that was Oh and he used to walk all over the countryside . |
| 29 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 30 | It is tempting to hang on to the launch , thinking that it will pick up speed , but if you do you may arrive almost over the end of the field with very little height or speed — an awkward situation . |