Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although conservation measures are understood to have been rigorously applied and economic growth has been sluggish or negative over the past few years , neither energy consumption nor oil consumption has fallen in any significant way in Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | Second , he was very much a Romantic , with all the Romantic 's preference for the vital , inward and spontaneous over the static , outward and formal . |
| 3 | Given the British Government 's determination to provide official aid to democratic countries — we are seeing the emergence of a growing number of them — does my hon. Friend agree that it would be proper and popular over the next five years to halve the gap between our official aid and the United Nations target ? |
| 4 | The cat leaped lightly on to the bed and padded over the bodiless sleeves . |
| 5 | When observed from the rear , the trailing edge is gull shaped and from the side , the angle of attack created by the bridle is very steep over the central delta and shallow over the outer panels . |
| 6 | It has been developed and refined over the last four years by engineers at the company 's parent company , General Motors . |
| 7 | A dispute then arose between Cenwulf and Wulfred over the Kentish houses of Reculver and Minster-in-Thanet , and the pope seems to have suspended the archbishop at the king 's request . |
| 8 | They were both Swiss , both Reformed ( i.e. Calvinist ) , both theologians rather than historians or biblical specialists , and both men of immense intellectual power and energy , capable of ranging far and wide over the whole spread of Christian thought in search of the resources and materials to fashion the theology which had to be reconstructed . |