Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Chandler , a 47-year-old occupational therapist , was left for dead after being repeatedly hit over the head with a rock . |
| 2 | The former is capable of being reasonably assessed over the course of the interview(s) ; the latter is more difficult to deal with . |
| 3 | In the weeks before the Luxembourg summit the governing Conservative Party in the UK showed itself to be seriously divided over the pace and goals of UK integration in Europe . |
| 4 | The social invisibility of the farm worker has enabled his plight to be virtually ignored over the years . |
| 5 | He changed his assessment in a Jan. 10 letter to the committee 's chairman Les Aspin , however , with the judgment that " the ability of Iraqi ground forces to defend Kuwait is unlikely to be substantially eroded over the next six to 12 months " and that " economic hardship alone is unlikely to compel Saddam to retreat " within that time . |
| 6 | The position can be even further distorted by votes for a particular party being concentrated in a particular region or locality , as opposed to being evenly spread over the country as a whole . |