Example sentences of "to over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That frigid little scene you treated me to over breakfast ? ’ |
| 2 | For a discussion of relevant considerations in relation to over provision , see Crolla v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1983 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 11 . |
| 3 | ‘ The truth is , ’ he admitted to Alan Griffiths , ‘ I have a constant temptation to over asperity … even when there is no subjective anger to prompt me : it comes , I think , from the pleasure of using the English language forcibly — i.e. it is not a species of Ira but of Superbia . |
| 4 | Membership of these and other worthy causes mean that our countryside is not lost to over development . |
| 5 | In contrast , private sector development was geared to over spill residents from Tyneside and the implicit assumption ( and certainly reality ) was that most of these would commute back to the conurbation for work . |
| 6 | The identity of the ‘ Boy-in-the-box ’ was unmasked by those letters referred to over lunch in the Savoy and which sent Forster back to the book she thought was finished . |
| 7 | You can sit out on the terrace to enjoy your meal which is buffet style offering a wide choice of menu and a temptation to over indulgence . |
| 8 | One of the hypothesis which could be proposed , attributes the lack of modification in mitochondrial genome expression to over expression of the intact genome population , or to a substantial increase in the overall concentration of mitochondrial genomes per nuclear genome ( therefore in the intact mitochondrial genome concentration ) . |
| 9 | Not knowing the number of items will result in wasted space due to over allocation . |
| 10 | Such a statement flies in the face of the types of acrylic primers offered to artists who wish to over paint in oils . |
| 11 | Before flight can occur the thoracic flight-muscles must attain a sufficiently high temperature and for this reason some insects carry out preliminary vibrations of the wings before flight , thereby raising the temperature of the muscles to over 30- C , for example , in Bombus , and some Lepidoptera ( Krogh and Zeuthen , 1941 ; Dorsett , 1962 ; Kammer , 1968 ) . |
| 12 | This frequently leads to over growth by the strongest weeds , which can quickly choke less robust plants . |
| 13 | The British plan to over throw Mossadeq was put on hold until after General Eisenhowers inauguration in January 1953 . |