Example sentences of "[art] [noun] be [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are twenty-four medium-sized frets and the board is lipped over the end of the neck at the body end , leaving the 24th fret hanging in space . |
| 2 | The ropework was passed over the pot from above and bent to fit . |
| 3 | The story was splashed over the front page , elbowing aside the arms talks and the council scandal . |
| 4 | The driver was bent over the wheel , while his passengers leant out of their windows waving and shouting to attract the attention of the taxi driver . |
| 5 | Some £26 billion of capital investment by the industry is required over the next 10 years . |
| 6 | The light is distributed over the courts by means of multi sided reflectors , rather than by direct light on to the court as is the traditional way . |
| 7 | The weight is kept over the feet with the crampons flat . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the safety of the solutions was improved over the findings of the 1984 evaluation : only 0.4% — 10.9% of solutions tested between early 1987 and early 1989 were found to have a sodium ion concentration in excess of 119mmol/l , as compared with 14.7% — 25.6% found in 1984 . |
| 9 | At the Olympic Games in 1908 , the marathon was run over the unusual distance of 26 miles 385 yards . |
| 10 | The overcoat was buttoned over the gun and the grenade . |
| 11 | The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests . |
| 12 | When the blades are rolled over the pastry , they cut even slashes , which create the lattice effect . |
| 13 | As the roller is drawn over the skin , hairs are trapped in the slits and plucked out . |
| 14 | What about the way the band 's changed over the past 12 months ? |
| 15 | The post is fitted over the moulded side seat rail , roughly cut to profile ( from a template ) and a tenon formed at the top . |
| 16 | It first gained popularity in the ancient world where , in an effort to stop adolescent boys from masturbating , the foreskin was pulled over the end of the penis and held in place by a ring passed through a couple of specially pierced holes . |
| 17 | The canal is carried over the western spur of the M5 on a modern aqueduct . |
| 18 | The posts were eventually taken down and themselves burnt before the mound was built over the top and the ring ditch dug around the outside . |
| 19 | The vinyl is applied over the paper base , through an engraved screen , and then the design is ‘ blown ’ by heating in an oven . |
| 20 | It is unlikely , however , that a traveller will bring luggage to the inn , and since the traveller 's car and goods contained therein can not be the subject of a lien , cases where the lien is exercised over the property of a traveller are rare . |
| 21 | Encom Cable TV & Telecommunications Ltd has launched a local telephone service in Redbridge , Barking and Dagenham , Essex : the service is offered over the company 's fibre trunk cable , which links to Mercury Communications Ltd 's national network ; the company claims that calls are 10% to 15% cheaper that British Telecommunications Plc 's . |
| 22 | As a ball is hit , spins and moves forward , the air that hits the front of the ball is dragged over the top of the ball , creating a slight vacuum on top of the ball . |
| 23 | Les Phillips running the show in mid-field , Steve Foster defending stoutly at the back and the front runners always giving Spurs problems especially when the ball was played over the top . |
| 24 | Sometimes if there was a certain amount of urgency due to bad weather , or perhaps a very important operation , the observations were collected over the telephone link-up , with the Met Officer in charge listening in . |
| 25 | If the event were duplicated over the whole country on a week on week basis you could multiply Susan and Vera 's conversation many times over . |
| 26 | This results in the DH being reached over the field with little hope of seeing anything in marginal conditions . |
| 27 | Schoolchildren in the US and the UK were linked over the system as they used their personal computers for discussion of the environment . |
| 28 | Eventually , however , the navvies and engineers overcame the difficulties and the bridge was erected over the road and the foundations of the embankment were laid . |
| 29 | Jumping down , he ran up the stairs into the Long Room , where all the workforce were seated over the midday meal . |
| 30 | From home , the news was distributed over the telephone . |