Example sentences of "over [art] [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't go into details over the phone but he said it had something to do with Bernard . |
| 2 | I 'll have I 'll have hopefully described them as as much as I can over the erm over the phone but er and of course the brochure . |
| 3 | than than they were quoted over the phone but |
| 4 | He claimed that Mr Smith had been forced into supporting public ownership in Scotland to prevent the party splitting over the issue but predicted that Labour would try to dilute its commitment . |
| 5 | Bouncing the rhythm and lead guitars and reprocessing them was , I admit , a bit over the top but , even so ( apart from a slight dulling of the sound , easily compensated for in the final mix ) , I thought the results were very good . |
| 6 | The traditional type of plotter is known as a ‘ flat bed ’ plotter because the paper is fixed to a flat plate with the gantry travelling over the top but the disadvantage is that the plotter must be at least as big as the piece of paper . |
| 7 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 8 | We all agree to the need for more rational use of insecticides than hitherto , especially in agriculture ; yet insecticides to control mosquitoes are normally applied to the inside walls and roofs of buildings so that , unlike agricultural pesticides , they are not widely dispersed over the landscape but confined within houses . |
| 9 | Additional problems are created by the heaviness of the monsoon rains which not only wash the sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen out of the air and over the marble but further erode any weaknesses in the stone . |
| 10 | I 've tried seventy-one different doctors all over the country but none of them know how to help . |
| 11 | We already have about 60 supporters who use this facility not only from all over the country but from places such as New Zealand , Australia , Canada , the USA , Israel , Sweden , Norway , Denmark , Germany and Ireland . |
| 12 | For Oldham , Holden put a 20 yard free-kick just over the bar but after 81 minutes United sealed the points when a crossfield pass from Hodges saw Rogers fail to connect with Gage 's low-cross but substitute Bryson hammered home . |
| 13 | Eventually Maidstone tried to scramble over the bar but he slipped and fell heavily onto the floor . |
| 14 | Wilkins also told magistrates that he had n't deliberately tipped his drink over the bar but that it had been an accident . |
| 15 | ‘ I had considered going to California over the winter but I realised it was n't necessary . |
| 16 | Small rodents such as voles and mice keep active over the winter but decline in numbers — through predation by weasels and especially owls — to a spring low . |
| 17 | If it had been implemented they would have lost not only their control over the peasantry but also virtually all authority in provincial affairs . |
| 18 | The radon concentrations are not distributed evenly over the village but show a clustering of very high radon concentrations in an area situated between two rivers ( area A , median ca=1868 Bq/m ) . |
| 19 | Then she noticed the lights going on all over the school but thought no more about it . |
| 20 | He thought over the attack but felt no fear . |
| 21 | On the usual definition of money , most of this measurement would involve monitoring the size of his or her bank balance over the year but we should also need to make some allowance for notes and coin . |
| 22 | It is as if the public recognizes that society has changed over the decade but does not much like what sees . |
| 23 | The criterion also makes a claim about localization ; the changes can not be all over the brain but must be concentrated to some specific region . |
| 24 | I have no desire to rake over the past but we should have the right to refer to matters of historical record . |
| 25 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 26 | Millichip refused to be drawn further and then fudged the issue by saying : ‘ This does not mean there is a question mark over the manager but we have to examine the situation . ’ |
| 27 | The name Tourmalet means literally ‘ bad way round ’ , but that was a billing which the col earned in more demanding times than the present , when there was no proper road over the pass but when you could hire porters to carry you from one valley to the next by chair . |
| 28 | She was too tired now to walk over the moor but she would set off first thing in the morning . |
| 29 | Its share of total industrial activity has varied over the period but the figures for the late 1960s are representative . |
| 30 | Less pure grades of graphite were discovered all over the world but none had the structure of the Borrowdale type . |