Example sentences of "the [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her legs shot up and Samson 's tankard skidded across the counter , spilling the rest of the porter over the floor . |
| 2 | Jimmy Hamilton was Palace 's regular centre-half for six seasons and appeared in the defence over the period of eight Football League campaigns between 1923–24 and 1930–31 . |
| 3 | Several hon. and hon. and learned Members who are present , some of whom have already spoken , have , like me , had the opportunity over the years in their professional lives to meet corrupt and evil people and to examine and sometimes cross-examine them in court . |
| 4 | But we did did take the opportunity over the weekend to actually run our traffic model er at a very crude level , I have to estimate . |
| 5 | You can easily change back from an improper fraction to a mixed number by dividing the denominator into the numerator and putting the remainder over the denominator . |
| 6 | And the archaeological remains give authenticity to the fascinating legends of Greek mythology with the most famous of them all , the Parthenon , looking down from the acropolis over the bustling city of Athens below . |
| 7 | The next stage is shopping for components , such as forms software , and raising an initial $2m to help with the funding over the next couple of months . |
| 8 | The next stage is shopping for components , such as forms software , and raising an initial $2m to help with the funding over the next couple of months . |
| 9 | Peter Hickton had had trouble with the resident stage crew at the Variety over the Saturday night . |
| 10 | Twoflower looked worriedly at the wizard over the top of his strange seeing-lenses . |
| 11 | Even before unity day last October 3rd , the euphoria over the fall of the Berlin Wall had evaporated and new friction was emerging between the two Germanies . |
| 12 | It was left to the Glasgow Hillhead MP , George Galloway , at a Scotland United fringe meeting to dissent with the euphoria over the severed links to the Scottish National Party and to question the leadership strategy . |
| 13 | Now when it asks you for the sample statement , ah done it , right before , it will ask you for the sample statement er over what period would you like to estimate this equation , right instead of pressing the return key which gives you the default , right , if you specify nineteen twenty three to nineteen forty sorry just a a dash between it like that nineteen twenty three space nineteen forty okay it asks you for the number of observations to be used in the structural stability tests , right , erm if you er press the default er if you press the return key then it should give you the maximum number available right five observations in this case right and then it will perform the regression over the entire sample period , those will be the results you obtain , right , it will also er present Chow erm test statistics . |
| 14 | In particular this applied to women , and one indication of it is indeed the change over the post-war period in economic activity rates among women . |
| 15 | The change over the past 2,700 years means days have been getting longer at an average rate of 1.7 milliseconds per 100 years . |
| 16 | A quick shift of weight , and he angled the bike over the gravel edge , sliding broadside as he struggled for traction . |
| 17 | He turned left in the village of Wanswell and blasted the bike over the slight pitch and on into the twisty overgrown lanes that led to the village of Purton . |
| 18 | The 260-km journey took five days , travelling 16 hours each day , mostly busing the bike over the broken terrain . |
| 19 | The struggle over the succession between Ahidjo and Biya , in spite of its curious circumstances , had only served to emphasize that the succession problem remained alive and unresolved . |
| 20 | In Spain the struggle over the succession in 1702–13 had seen a prolonged effort by Catalonia and much of Aragon to throw off Castilian rule , an effort which drove them to support the Habsburg Archduke Charles against the eventually victorious Bourbon claimant to the throne , Philip V , grandson of Louis XIV . |
| 21 | The board over the door proclaimed that it was The Clutching Hand . |
| 22 | A bridge arch carries the towpath over the entrance to Holloway Bank Wharf after a slight double bend before a 3km straight which is closely followed by powerlines . |
| 23 | The sentence over the exemption of the abbey was given by the pope himself in his consistory and Thomas of Marlborough , who had appeared as proctor for the abbey , fainted for joy . |
| 24 | Place the saucepan with the milk over the heat and bring to the boil . |
| 25 | To tell hospital managers that they should have paced themselves to spread the money over the full year is a denial of all the theoretical advantages of a free market . |
| 26 | He was speaking after the government funded Housing Corporation revealed plans to spend the money over the next 12 months on supporting schemes to build more than 2,000 homes . |
| 27 | Establishing the sovereignty of the parliament over the state , with all the citizens in the society having control over parliament . |
| 28 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 29 | Such were the tolerant conditions still prevailing that the Left Communists were able to publish their own journal — Kommunist — and Lenin had to argue policy questions with them publicly ; just as had been the case over the Brest Litovsk peace treaty . |
| 30 | Intel also filed a motion asking Judge William Ingram to reconsider or to certify his April 15 ruling demanding a retrial of the case over the microcode in the 80287 maths co-processor , which Intel says Advanced Micro was not entitled to use . |