Example sentences of "over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the clouds came we visited Beaulieu , travelled their monorail , rode a vintage bus and drooled over the super cars in the National Motor Museum . |
| 2 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 3 | On Sept. 30 Ingegerd Troedsson ( Moderate Party ) was elected as the Speaker of the Riksdag ( Sweden 's second highest ranking official after the monarch ) , the first woman to be elected to the post , in a narrow victory over the incumbent Thage Peterson ( Social Democrat ) . |
| 4 | Clinton took a huge opinion poll lead over the incumbent President George Bush of the Republican Party . |
| 5 | Mr Clerides , 73 , standard bearer for the Greek-Cypriot conservative establishment , scored an unexpected victory over the incumbent president , George Vassiliou , in a second round runoff . |
| 6 | When a well proportioned quantity of water is passed over the unequal surface of a richly coloured rock , which thus aided , glows with borrowed brightness and augmented beauty on the delighted wanderer 's gaze , the spectacle is replete with dazzling fascination , and the mind most avaricious of enjoyment can covet no more . |
| 7 | The 247,400 million peso budget involved increasing spending by 17.9 per cent over the adjusted 1990 budget of 209,800 million pesos . |
| 8 | Just before baking , brush with beaten egg and sprinkle some sesame seeds over the finished flaounes . |
| 9 | Lyddy put the final touches to her hair and slipped two ropes of pearls carefully over the finished edifice . |
| 10 | Seen in this much broader context the campaign over the peace-tax issue is obviously at most a relatively minor skirmish in a very much larger battle , one that is being fought , as is the peace-tax issue itself , on the terrain of classical political and constitutional theory — namely , the relationship between citizens and the state . |
| 11 | Another lengthy court battle would be a severe embarrassment for Mr Heseltine and prolong the Government 's agony over the mishandled pit closure programme . |
| 12 | Until 1936 , the other rural counties in the District were regarded as ‘ open territory ’ but in that year a partial relaxation over public expenditure restrictions occurred and the issues inherent in the compromise over the rural areas agreement between the Cambridge Board and the District emerged in sharply focussed ways . |
| 13 | But it was not only officers and members of the WEA and the District who were pleased with the final agreement over the rural areas scheme and the conclusion of negotiations of byzantine complexity extending over a period of four difficult years . |
| 14 | It is not , therefore , simply bloody-mindedness which will lead some farmers to resist planning controls over the rural landscape ; it will be a defence , however tenuous , of the interest of private property — and that , needless to say , is an interest which is fundamental to the fabric of contemporary English society . |
| 15 | Each individual abolitionist demonstrated the victory of the better over the worse side of his or her nature , of ‘ pure power ’ over interest , but some particular individuals elicited especial admiration and reverence . |
| 16 | But she got me so , over the worse part , yeah . |
| 17 | You , of course , have many advantages over the average dieter . |
| 18 | Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme . |
| 19 | NT has a slight edge over the average Unix on-line documentation but falls short of the best available and the introduction of the CD-ROM is a hurdle for the desktop crowd . |
| 20 | This was the highest rating of all the publishers listed in Table 5 and represented a premium of 74% over the average market price/earnings ratio of 17.7x . |
| 21 | Variations in pension cost , which are identified as a result of actuarial valuations , are amortised over the average expected remaining working lives of employees . |
| 22 | These contributions will be charged over the average expected remaining service lives of employees as a fixed percentage of expected future pay . |
| 23 | Under U.S. GAAP , such surplus or deficit is amortized to the income statement on a straight line basis over the average remaining service lives of active employees . |
| 24 | I passed over the paper-towel bundle . |
| 25 | This is followed by an overflow event and then the main event over the triangular 650 metre circuit of Wellington St. , Church St. and Mill St. Mike Bell from the Merseyside team won in 1990 , lapping all but two of the field in the process . |
| 26 | This gives an equivalent ordinary price on conversion at the moment of 93.6p , a premium of 35.7% over the present ordinary price of 69p . |
| 27 | At a price of 94p for the convertible pref , the equivalent ordinary price on conversion is 884p , a premium of 57% over the present ordinary share price of 564p . |
| 28 | There are no certainties in the field of demography , but on the assumption that present mortality rates at all ages will not worsen , we can be fairly certain about the absolute numbers of men and women over the present statutory retirement pension age ( 60 for women and 65 for men ) well into the twenty-first century — at least until the 2040s — because all of them are already born . |
| 29 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 30 | Will the Minister accept that the flaw in his argument is that no figure is projected for the next financial year which will take the amount needed over the present limits agreed under the 1987 legislation ? |