Example sentences of "[noun pl] of the [noun] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 2 | On an afternoon in late February they climbed to the great Iron Age hill-fort at Dowsborough , from where they looked down on ‘ a magnificent scene , curiously spread out for even minute inspection ’ ; and on other occasions they watched from the hills as the effects of the weather unfolded over the landscape below . |
| 3 | The peaks surrounding glacier-dominated Saas Fee may be less distinguished , but the ice-falls of the Feegletscher hanging over the village are in their way just as striking . |
| 4 | We could see the Kasr el-Nil bridge , the lights of the cars streaming over it and the dark width of the river . |
| 5 | Later in the day , following a meeting in Dartford , Kent , with Tory MPs and members of the public protesting over the route of the planned Channel tunnel high-speed rail link , Mr Parkinson reiterated his faith in a private sector solution to the funding crisis . |
| 6 | The restrictive conditions governing the leap-frog appeal reflect the usual caution over the introduction of innovations and the real misgivings some members of the judiciary had over the introduction of the procedure . |
| 7 | They may have been killed by the giants ; they may have starved to death ; all the men of the Armada remembered were the pitiful wails of the pair echoing over the still waters as the ships sailed back into the open sea , and south . |
| 8 | ESP 's and Martin 's method gives you a greater length of fret to play over , and lessens the chances of the strings falling over the edges when using the kind of vib that Kirk sometimes does . |
| 9 | The first rays of the sun appeared over the stark metal mortar sheeting covering the cookhouse The three teams stood shivering in the courtyard , shaking the chill of the morning from their bodies . |