Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood there a while longer , mindlessly enjoying the flow of water over his limbs . |
| 2 | From 1888 he served on the new Cumberland county council , opposing the construction of roads over Lakeland passes , reducing mining pollution , and organizing the proper signposting of footpaths . |
| 3 | We regard it as an inhuman act , they say , to keep a man facing the agony of execution over a long extended period . |
| 4 | Mary Ann was still holding the plate of temptation over the table . |
| 5 | That decision — and many others involving the course of science over the next four years — may rest with a new group of about 30 senior administrators convened two weeks ago by Gibbons and Bowman Cutter of the National Economic Council . |
| 6 | Pearson 's study of the history of street crime in Britain clearly illustrates the problem of using criminal statistics as a means for comparing the rate of crime over extended periods of time . |
| 7 | More than any other lens system , the pair should help cosmologists to evaluate the Hubble constant ( giving the rate at which the Universe is growing ) by directly tracing the geometry of space over vast distances . |
| 8 | Other tasks which require immense computer power are modelling the behaviour of quarks , one of the smallest particles known to man , or studying the flow of air over an airplane wing . |
| 9 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 10 | He will be discussing the future of Leeds over the next 5 years or so . |
| 11 | The principal focus of long-wave theories is historical , offering a framework for conceiving the movement of economies over time so that , if they help us understand the modern UK economy , they do so by locating the present in a pattern that covers the past and the future . |
| 12 | The Indian Prime Minister , V. P. Singh , stated in an interview on June 3 that a set of new proposals had been sent to Pakistan aimed at reducing the risk of war over Kashmir . |
| 13 | Henry VII instigated changes which included reducing the power of nobility over the countryside and extending the duties of the Justices of the Peace . |
| 14 | In 610 a combined Avar-Slav army thrust across the karst , following the route of Theodosius over the Pear Tree Pass ( Hrušica ) and the Vipava valley . |
| 15 | In a time of rising inflation this had the potential of depriving the government of control over cash expenditure . |