Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But uncertainties are smoothed over by this idealization of a historically and socially specific , juridical concept of power ( Hussain 1981 ) . |
| 2 | You know Connells ' all been took over by Gala ? |
| 3 | 16 NOT all Americans have been won over by Super Mario . |
| 4 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 5 | Once he had been won over by Meistersinger , with its triumphant portrayal of genius . |
| 6 | The most active elements of the intelligentsia are won over by personal privileges to the prevailing ideology as well as being subject to the prevalent intellectual control while the peasants are tied to the land by economic hardship imposed through short-term , small-unit landholding contracts ( such as sharecropping ) , which discourage capital investment . |
| 7 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |
| 8 | Its twin ponds , of some 3.5 acres , have been built over by the ‘ bus station and local shops . |
| 9 | After cutting and initial drying of the exposed surface the swathes are turned over by hand or mechanical rake to expose the wet under-surface and to move the whole windrow onto dry ground . |
| 10 | The minutiae of its English outcrop from Dorset to Yorkshire have probably been turned over by more loving hands than have touched any equivalent heap of sediment elsewhere . |
| 11 | been turned over by warlords , they want to get their own back . |
| 12 | Although large quantities had been handed over by July 8 , the government maintained that items remained in the camps . |
| 13 | Many of the objections to plastics of the thermosetting type for household goods and such-like applications have been got over by the development of the ‘ thermoplastic ’ resins which came into use on a large scale after 1945 . |
| 14 | Convoys half a mile long are watched over by scattered Afghan army outposts on the hills by the road . |
| 15 | Above left : Large silk bows adorned with trailing gold stars are watched over by a golden cherub and help to liven up the staircase |
| 16 | It may be that Britain has overemphasised the potential benefits of free trade ; that she has actually benefited from the protectionist philosophy which permeates the EEC ; that being a member of a cohesive new power bloc is what has counted ; that the ‘ fight ’ with the Americans over agricultural matters is a case in point ; that had she been on her own , Britain would have been trampled over by her cousins on the other side of the Atlantic . |
| 17 | What had happened in Dungannon , he suggested , was no different from what had happened in Prague : ‘ We ordinary people have been walked over by a militant force . ’ |
| 18 | Paul Shipton is doing the initial writing , and his manuscript will be looked over by Tom Hutchinson before being finalized . |
| 19 | Do not be won over by Mr Franklin 's arithmetic . |
| 20 | Maggie could n't help but be won over by this appeal on her mother 's behalf . |
| 21 | Student Vivienne Wilson , 18 , from Purley , Surrey , said she would never be won over by a salesman — but a President would be another matter . |
| 22 | The prestige audience would be won over by movies that could take their place alongside the middle-class novel and play . |
| 23 | ‘ But I do not believe you — and I am unlikely to be won over by repetition . |
| 24 | She would rather be slobbered over by the randiest male than be touched in that way by her own sex . |
| 25 | Will he also condemn the scandalous proposal that when the PSA is privatised , up to £85 million of taxpayers ' money should be handed over by the Government to Tarmac , which will take it over , so that any proposed redundancies of men and women in the PSA will be paid not by the privatising company but by the taxpayer ? |
| 26 | The ability of the Bank to operate through such systems is largely through the historical building up of relationships and the ingrained tradition of the banks to accept such a system because of their desire to be watched over by ‘ one of their own ’ . |
| 27 | Suddenly Clare jumped up , leaving his bucket to be kicked over by the cow , went quickly towards her , and , kneeling down beside her , took her in his arms . |
| 28 | I find it difficult to understand those who say they are planning for next year 's championships — what is the point , they could be run over by a bus before next year ? |
| 29 | They know that the Labour party , led by the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) , would lie down and be run over by anything that the Community proposed . |
| 30 | This left the throne to be fought over by thirteen competitors and the kingdom vulnerable to the ambitions of Edward I. Wars resulting from territorial ambitions were in no way unusual . |