Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been planned to take the aircraft up to 5,000ft and carry out some general handling checks , but I never got up that high , consequently I ended up doing a figure of eights over Duxford at 300ft . |
| 2 | A total of 9,376 were without work , a rise of 12 over September . |
| 3 | But the power and the point of Barthes 's account of wrestling , as a spectacle that re-enacts the battle of good over evil with grandiloquence and excess of gesture and act , is that this interpretation is contrary to an accepted one of wrestling as a sport in which competitors demonstrate skill and strength in their progress towards a victory . |
| 4 | Attempts by the TCCB and the ICC to grasp the creeping bindweed of slow over rates have resulted in one thumping success — and apparently another ++ until the wretched small print is examined . |
| 5 | The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt . |
| 6 | MICHAEL ROBERTS was in form at Pontefract yesterday , rattling off a 959-1 treble to make 190 — a lead of 30 over Pat Eddery . |
| 7 | NEW ZEALAND off-spinner Dipak Patel captured a Test best 6–113 as the Kiwis took a first-innings lead of 106 over Zimbabwe , bowled out for 219 in Bulawayo . |
| 8 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 9 | If it seems surprising that the same forms of rioting should recur from one place to another over lapses of time , it should be remembered that food rioting was neither an isolated nor a continuous form of popular action . |
| 10 | In an unprecedented finish , with five men sharing the lead on five over par 293 , Helsby ( only 20 ) won a sudden death play-off after five holes . |
| 11 | Dick Allan 's charge , a useful hurdler rated in the mid 120s , has crept in on a mark of 86 over fences after an unenterprisingly-ridden second at Catterick . |
| 12 | Chambers started the day at six over par eight shots off the lead but finished at only one over with birdies at one three and six , an eagle at seven another two birdies at eight and nine to go out in 30 . |
| 13 | Pam Wright , who started the final day at two over par , was three over at the turn . |
| 14 | The predominant conventions of the adventure story , the victory of good over evil and the happy ending , have led to a subtle demotion of the genre from the highest ranks of literature on the grounds that its main aim is a contrived entertainment ; for experience suggests , often though not invariably , that the challenge of adventure is more likely to meet with disaster and defeat than survival and triumph . |
| 15 | However , this subconsciously held conflict with his father in subsequent over identification with er led Wilson to be somewhat stubborn , perhaps even complicational as a , as you know , as presidency of the United States , which were , were often directed towards or often only minor details of his work , but he would n't he would n't actually range them towards say , any major . |
| 16 | There was debate in 1990-1991 over proposals for the modification of the 1982 Constitution , which was regarded as a legacy from the period of military rule . |
| 17 | The loyalty to the Crown of English settlers was not matched by any comparable institutional framework ; a well-informed observer on the continent of Europe might reasonably have expected that the execution of Charles I would lead to the disintegration of his empire overseas and that the Republic would be unable to assert any authority at all over emigrants whose political links with England were already so relatively weak . |
| 18 | The council will have no control at all over rent levels . |
| 19 | I remind the House that this is the third year running in which , using the new pensioner premium structure introduced by the 1988 reforms , we have directed real extra support to those over pension age who are least well-off . |
| 20 | One of the most basic freedoms anywhere is the right to peace , and the choice of quiet over noise . |
| 21 | Parents who trust the coach should distinguish between the confusing issue of good , positive support versus negative over involvement . ’ |
| 22 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 23 | However , the 1986 Social Security Act froze the reduced earnings allowance ( previously called the special hardship allowance ) on retirement and offset it against earnings-related pension , thereby reducing the compensation for the impact of disablement on those over retirement age . |
| 24 | This is ‘ New Jack City ’ , a film that contains good-looking street-smart cops and villains , violence , sex and even a final triumph of good over evil . |
| 25 | The conflicts of Horus and Seth formed an epic struggle with a great many episodes , during the course of which neither god escaped injury , but Horus achieved the final victory in this triumph of good over evil . |
| 26 | It was a pivotal moment in the history of the Egyptian gods , the triumph of good over evil . |
| 27 | And it is equally inadequate to suggest that the audience should only respond morally , elevated by the supposed triumph of good over evil — even though for many people now this is undoubtedly the effect of tragedy . |
| 28 | This belief was supported by an equally passionate belief in the triumph of spiritual over material forces , and by a rather ill-defined theology of divinely generated social progress . |
| 29 | Weber explained the bureaucratization of the state as part of the ‘ rationalization of the world ’ , the triumph of instrumental over value rationality ( Jacoby , 1973 ; Mommsen , 1974 ) . |
| 30 | The move was widely described as marking the culmination of the " rejuvenation " of the SPD which , despite its poor performance in the December 1990 general election [ see pp. 37904-05 ] and dissention within the party during 1990 over unification , was currently in government in 10 of the 16 Länder . |