Example sentences of "over some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Socratic evenings took the form of two speakers facing one another over some such topic as ‘ Is theology poetry ? ’ or ‘ If we have Christ 's ethics does the rest of Christianity matter ? ’ |
| 2 | This triumph could be due to the outcome of a fight for a mate , or over territory or for food , or over some other issue . |
| 3 | ‘ Keith hits and kicks any child playing with a toy he wants ’ is an objective description of the problem and it allows us to decide whether it should take priority over some other problem behaviour . |
| 4 | UI , an $11m affair , wants to retain its input into X/Open , but unless it can come to an arrangement over some other form of membership which OSF has so far failed to secure , it is likely to turn in its cards at the end of the year . |
| 5 | The second time , she 's expressing the same two sentiments over some other shambling case of physical dereliction , while I 'm left panting on an immobile bicycle and I never go back . |
| 6 | Hilton 's Scale gains , perhaps , over some other later descriptions of the way in being very wide and very general so that the individual can find his own way therein without being embarrassed by a bundle of inapplicable particularities . |
| 7 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 8 | This is not a dispute over some small detail , but about the basic mechanism of purring . |
| 9 | And I like to keep it that way still if I can , because you can make yourself a lot of work over some small incident sometimes . |
| 10 | She had a natural restraint , unlike my father who , one Sunday night on his way back from chapel , took a short cut over some rough ground and broke his ankle . |
| 11 | On impact the fuselage was pitched over some 100 beyond the vertical . |
| 12 | have pointed out that if it is feasible and believable for entrants to write firm ( but presumably secret ) contracts with customers for delivery over some fixed time period in the future , then the third and fourth conditions have been circumvented yet the result is the same . |
| 13 | Four miles long and over some good country . ’ |
| 14 | In early computers the add or store cycle time would be quoted ; even today raw computer power may be expressed in terms of the number of instructions executed per second , using a weighted average over some standard instruction mix . |
| 15 | Or think back over some deep personal concern and the way it was brought to God in prayer . |
| 16 | He pondered , as if over some deep , philosophical point . |
| 17 | Harris paused for a few seconds while he negotiated the cabriolet over some deep ruts in the high road . |
| 18 | two inch long with a yellow crayon , my mate Dick in , er a Zeppelin , there were some cottages and a Zeppelin , and er , we , we coming over some blue and he said er , he said what 's the blue and I said the sea , well then , it , it behind land , well I said you have to cross the sea , you know down |
| 19 | If , by agreement with the continuing partners , the personal representatives , themselves duly authorised by provisions in the will or otherwise , are content to leave the deceased 's share in the continuing firm by way of loan , for example to help the firm over some temporary financial difficulty , they do not on that account become entitled to any account of the profits of the firm , merely to payment of interest at the agreed rate . |
| 20 | The results came in thick and fast — flashed across the tv screen over some cheap subtitled American B-movie . |
| 21 | In other words , over some differential range of prices for imports and domestically produced substitutes there was a low cross-price elasticity of demand . |
| 22 | Most of the Cotswold silk trade was carried out at Blockley , over some 200 years . |
| 23 | This study , which derives from previous field research on migrants in Europe , compares British and French experience over some 200 years . |
| 24 | Examples of all types are plentiful in different regions : the long cairn of Balnagowan in Aberdeenshire , fragmented into heaps of stones lined up over some 230 feet ; the well-preserved Clyde cairn of Brackley in Kintyre , excavated in 1952 to reveal both inhumation and cremation procedures , with food vessels and jet necklace beads ; and the protracted cemetery of Nether Largie tombs below Kilmartin village in Argyll . |
| 25 | Both seem to have tripped over some elementary physics . |
| 26 | Yet it is clear that there is significant and sustained conflict , over some crucial cultural issues , between the state in its simplest form ( as in legislation on obscenity or on official information ) or the ‘ apparatus ’ in its more complex form ( as in religious or educational campaigns against ‘ sex-and-violence ’ or ‘ materialism ’ ) , and the actual profitable operations of the capitalist market . |
| 27 | As a result of subsidence , the ground was one mass of hillocks and hollows , extending in all over some 70 acres . |
| 28 | I think communications has been the biggest change that I saw , erm er from a system which was called the DX system , which is really a very primitive way of calling people by means of generating electric current over some private wires , to fireman 's houses and on to fire station . |
| 29 | Sitting there , knitting , watching the television , knitting , her lips pursed over some unimaginable grievance , she listened , and nodded , and thought , and said yes . |
| 30 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |