Example sentences of "to [adj] [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | A temporary demarcation line between British and Soviet forces was agreed , subject to further detailed arrangements over the next few days and later political discussions on a more permanent boundary line between the British and Soviet Zones . |
| 2 | Before any sale , the Department of Energy would want to remove any loss-making capacity , but all parties were shocked by a government-commissioned report from merchant bank NM Rothschild , which was widely leaked , forecasting that the industry could be reduced to 12 deep pits over the next three years . |
| 3 | In addition , savers can miss up to six monthly payments over the five years provided they are made up in the months immediately following the five-year term . |
| 4 | It is , however , impossible to separate out processes acting at different scales and over different periods : a single volcanic eruption lasting hours or days sometimes leads to dust and gas being ejected into the atmosphere over a period of months and this in turn may lead to global climatic fluctuations over years or decades . |
| 5 | The presence of words that form a compound in consecutive positions other than by intention is improbable , hence from knowing the existence of a compound tennis courts one would give priority to these individual words over their alternative candidates . |
| 6 | He was a big man everything about him was big shoulders , chest , nose eyes and ears everything except his near-flat stomach and his hair which had faded on top and grown to wise-looking grey tufts over his ears . |
| 7 | The system simply gives preference to common grammatical combinations over unusual ones . |
| 8 | NetManage will in turn resell Network Computing 's PC-Xview X server products for Windows- and MS-DOS-based machines , and the PC-Xremote software , which provides high-speed access to remote personal computers over serial lines . |
| 9 | Furthermore , recognition of the significance of environmental factors upon the well-being of elderly people does not give us a magic wand ; many of these factors are attributable to wider structural phenomena over which we and the elderly people have relatively little control . |