Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 Fish , which in the cold European waters are sluggish and easily caught , often provide the staple for mink over the winter .
2 CAPTURE THE VICTORY OF SCIENCE OVER TIME .
3 By contrast both productive opportunities yield positive NPVs ; that is , they provide a return to investors over and above that offered by the capital market .
4 Then , place a sheet of glass over the design and trace the outlines on to the stiff card that you will be using for your stencil pattern .
5 Continue in this way until all the seaweed has been prepared , then cover each piece with a clean sheet of blotting paper and place a couple of newspapers over the top .
6 Place a slice of avocado over each slice of grapefruit and arrange attractively in lines down a serving plate .
7 Place a block of wood over the plastic tube and knock into the ground , occasionally placing the clothes line pole into the tube to check the tube is vertical
8 He talked religion with the great Erasmus Darwin in Derby , preached to sometimes vast congregations from Unitarian pulpits — ‘ my Sermons spread a sort of sanctity over my Sedition ’ — and returned in triumph to Bristol with the names of several hundred new subscribers .
9 Keycard systems hold a number of advantages over traditional cylinder locks for both the guest and the hotelier .
10 He had a strong feeling that he wanted to dash back to the Romano-British section and break a piece of statuary over the bastard 's head .
11 If the pond-building books fail to acknowledge Murphy 's Law , it is nowhere more evident than at the point where neat diagrams demonstrate the laying of slabs over flap of liner .
12 Pipe the chocolate into swirls over the chocolate-coated truffles .
13 Drop the loop of string over the pins , draw it taut to form a triangle with a pencil point .
14 Try to increase your attention span and extend the length of time over which you can work effectively .
15 But matters were so arranged that for most the outlook was not completely bleak ; almost everyone could arrive eventually at a state of relative freedom from intimidation and enjoy a measure of authority over others .
16 Lay a bed of mortar over a base of gravel or fine hardcore .
17 Lay a piece of paper over the artwork and draw on the actual positions of the components , showing the locations of all pinouts and terminals clearly .
18 The corollary of the possession of power by companies is that the individuals , interest groups , and communities affected by it suffer a lack of control over the conditions which determine how they live their lives .
19 As compared with the more usual situation in which we only know the activity of people over a short period , such data raise some challenging statistical and econometric problems .
20 Other feminist writers , such as Overfield ( 1981 ) , Wallsgrove ( 1980 ) and Fee ( 1983 ) have suggested that dichotomies such as nature/culture , subject/object , emotional/rational are harmful because they imply the superiority of culture over nature , the objective over the subjective , and the rational over the emotional .
21 Facing ever increasing numbers of Norse raids the Mages of Saphery draw a shroud of mists over the eastern sea approaches to Ulthuan .
22 So , I mean , what 's the point of you know making it look really , really nice and you know , all you could is just slap a coat of paint over it !
23 Note the coat of arms over the door and the fine plasterwork — with the date 1659 — over the fireplace .
24 The heads identified as JYM thus exercise a form of control over the process of viewing and apprehension which is normally denied to portraiture .
25 Last week she was out on 'er doorstep threatenin' ter chuck a pail o' water over a couple o' Galloway 's carmen .
26 I love the way of life over here .
27 The cryptic initials traditionally cast a veil of secrecy over the sitter 's identity and their gender , masking the subject through a process of partial revelation , that requires the intervention of a reader with privileged knowledge to complete the act of portraiture .
28 ‘ We play a lot of games over the next three or four weeks and I would be stuck if Ironside was injured .
29 Bill Clinton 's defeat of George Bush in the US presidential elections cast an air of uncertainty over the talks .
30 ‘ With moped racing you can pick up a 50cc for about £20 , almost literally throw a bucket of paint over it and you 're away . ’
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