Example sentences of "of [noun] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After breakfast we left the inn and got on the track , which , with care , need not be lost sight of in good weather , except in haze or severe rain , when there is danger at one or two places , where a ceaseless flow of moisture over a rich soil keeps the grass so green and the ground so soft , no path is traceable now and again . |
| 2 | The standard of play over the past few years has shown a considerable step-up and the cream of the local talent now face a daunting challenge in their bid to reclaim the title for ‘ home ’ keeping . |
| 3 | In addition to their port duties , Lerwick staff had to cover controls at Sumburgh Airport which was thirty miles south of Lerwick over a bumpy switchback road . |
| 4 | During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe . |
| 5 | By the end of June , however , the failure to agree on all of the details , together with the lack of progress over the nuclear issue , appeared to have jeopardized the planned exchange . |
| 6 | Manufacturers selling a wide range of products over a wide geographical area to a market numbered in millions would find it prohibitively expensive to set up their own Highstreet stores , even if they were permitted to proliferate in this way . |
| 7 | He was plastering wet threads of hair over a balding pate , and there was a look of alarm in those magnified eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ Laura … ! ’ he groaned , a deep , compulsive inner hunger shaking his tall figure as her hands trailed gently downwards , following the dark arrow of hair over the taut muscles of his stomach , which clenched violently at her soft touch . |
| 9 | While a cannon ball may plough through a line of troops and kill two or three victims , a mortar shell explodes with a tremendous bang , scattering mud , dirt , and bits of shell over a wide area . |
| 10 | John Farrant will be talking about the development of Brighton over the past three hundred years and how patterns of trade and commerce have tended to repeat themselves . |
| 11 | so providing they just play it steadily they should be alright , there 's a lot of discrimination over the Australian defeat in the paper , they reckon that if erm |
| 12 | Reduce prominent lids with a matte , sludgy shade of eyeshadow over the entire lid , blended away up to the brow . |
| 13 | Rodrigo strove mightily not to offend his Moorish subjects , especially in Valencia which became his base of operations over the succeeding months . |
| 14 | As an alternative to the cash dividend the Board is proposing that an enhanced scrip dividend is offered to shareholders whereby they may elect to receive new ordinary shares with a value of 10.65 pence per share , an increase of 50% over the proposed final cash dividend . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that NIA should be an attractive prospect , given the amount of public money which has been ploughed into the expansion of Aldergrove over the past 30 years . |
| 16 | Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period . |
| 17 | Each compartment can be used to hold a particular type of component over a limited range of values . |
| 18 | Charles led an army of Neustrians over the western Pyrenees , while a further force levied from Austrasia , Lombardy and Burgundy , crossed the eastern Pyrenees . |
| 19 | Despite this minimal preparation , and regular changes of personnel over the past fortnight , they achieved a wholly implausible blend of skill , aggression and indomitable spirit . |
| 20 | This is the latest in a series of conflicts over the Baltic environment , including an escape of effluent from the chemicals complex on the river Dvina which poisoned large numbers of fish . |
| 21 | In a remarkable series of investigations over the past four years , the MMC has examined the practices in beer , petroleum , and motor vehicle supply . |
| 22 | It privileges the music which Adorno chooses as best representing the contradictory whole — thus alongside Beethoven and the tradition following him other kinds of music ( Berlioz , Rossini , Verdi , Elgar , Stravinsky , Eisler , let alone Lehár , Louis Armstrong , Walter Donaldson or Elvis Presley ) are inevitably presented as partial , that is to say more socially specific , less autonomous ; it also reduces the possibility of struggle over the specific uses and meanings of musical materials and forms : competing ‘ viewpoints ’ are dismissed as ‘ regressive ’ or ‘ false ’ . |
| 23 | Francis Tidbury received a certain amount of sympathy over the following few days , but the public were so outraged at the brutality involved , it carried little weight . |
| 24 | What we 've done tonight , is spread that amount of money over a tremendous number of people tonight |
| 25 | First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect . |
| 26 | Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group . |
| 27 | The sandwiches were quickly followed by the wrath of the Scotland manager , who charged into the bedroom and threw a glass of milk over the startled keeper . |
| 28 | In several incidents in the eastern part of Germany over the past two months the Russians have continued to act like occupiers — and drawn only mild reproof from the German government . |
| 29 | In 1923 the USA and Britain reached an agreement for repayment of debts over a 62-year period at 3.3% interest . |
| 30 | It may also be possible to argue that where the party has failed to respond to a notice of assignment from the purchaser , such lack of action over a long period is an implied consent where that party has dealt with the purchaser after completion . |