Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [adv] over the " in BNC.

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1 But on any one day , although there will be subject assessors beavering away in places all over the country , their activity is not very visible unless you happen to teach in a department being visited ; the rest of the staff in your own college or school may be unaware that a subject assessor is there .
2 Paying the piper as we call the tune is the idea behind metering , which is already in use all over the world .
3 But the battle to preserve beloved solitudes flared up repeatedly in patches all over the country , precisely as it does today with the threat of new airfields and military training areas .
4 A few years later , Ralph Berger discovered the loss of neck muscle tone which accompanied REM sleep.9 These two findings , linking EEC patterns with eye movement and neck and throat muscle activity , have formed the basis of the recording and scoring methods for sleep in humans now in use all over the world .
5 Instead of hunting all over the sky , the pilots concentrated on one scatter of targets and spiralled down through them , turning tightly in order to cut down the risk of collision .
6 In some cases such an escape was executed only with pain , as in the case of Ann Yearsley who broke publicly with Hannah More over the right to administer a trust fund for her children .
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