Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | But enough family likeness remains to make the chimpanzees ' tea-time a most popular attraction in zoos all over the world . |
| 2 | We wanted to get away from it all but now find we 're in daily contact with people all over the world ! ’ |
| 3 | The action smacked too much of the grandiose , if futile , gesture of the French nobility at Crécy just over a century earlier . |
| 4 | He was wearing a long woolly pullover with hedgehogs all over it , nothing else . |
| 5 | The raids were followed by a military action on the ground , and neutral Cambodia was drawn into the conflict , with appalling loss of life there over the next few years . |
| 6 | There is going to be a serious shortage of food all over the world during the next year . |
| 7 | The South West Region plays host to a vast number of divers all over the country . |
| 8 | The significance of the birth of Christ is not the sudden appearance of angels all over the place , but the fact that such an important person was born in the most humble surroundings — in a poor and lowly stable . |
| 9 | They often find it easier to deal with an agency rather than directly with someone , ’ said a spokesman for Poppies , the Darlington-based company with franchises all over the country ( –444 ) . |
| 10 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 11 | Does my hon. Friend agree that many leaders of local industry are giving their time and experience to ensure the great success of TECs all over the United Kingdom and that it is imperative that we , the Government , ensure that they are properly funded ? |
| 12 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 13 | There is considerable pressure for people all over the world to migrate , for all sorts of reasons . |
| 14 | Iran had boycotted the pilgrimage for the third consecutive year in protest both over a quota system limiting the number of pilgrims ( to an estimated 1,500,000 ) and over the Saudi ban on political protests during the pilgrimage . |
| 15 | Today they are an important source of food all over the world . |
| 16 | But there is also widespread support for state or collective provision of welfare even over tax cuts . |
| 17 | Oxydol won out , and the so-called soap opera that was used to sell it gave its name to a genre , massively reinforced by its wholesale adoption by television all over the world since the 1950s . |
| 18 | Just as the field in sunspots suppresses the flow of radiation locally , so the spread-out field inhibits the general upflow of radiation all over the sun . |
| 19 | The two Chelonians he had seen earlier were strapped into padded harnesses that suspended their front set of limbs conveniently over the main instrument panel . |
| 20 | For minor members of foreign missions , of whom ambassadors ' secretaries were the most important , gold chains continued during much of the seventeenth century to be a very common form of gift all over Europe . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 22 | It gives access to all sorts of information , whether locally provided , or by remote access to systems all over the world . |
| 23 | For ears treated surgically there was no significant advantage of adenoidectomy alone over the baseline category of tube insertion alone . |
| 24 | This from one who has majored in sneaking out of bad acting in theatres all over the world . |