Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [adv] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 2 | You keep meeting the same people in a sector of industry all over the world . ’ |
| 3 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |
| 4 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 5 | the surface of light just over the border . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | the nationalists do n't have so much of hold now over the south . |
| 8 | Suddenly , as we were about fifty yards from that lovely smell of coffee , there was an almighty roar as the barn blew up , scattering burning straw and all kinds of debris all over the farm area . |
| 9 | The worship of , or professed belief in , a god of some kind is to be found in varying degrees of sincerity all over the world . |
| 10 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 11 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 12 | Our task today is to increase the international pressure on behalf of the thousands of prisoners of conscience all over the world , to make tomorrow the day their freedom is restored . |
| 13 | The event was held in the school library and messages of hope were written to prisoners of conscience all over the world . |
| 14 | For ears treated surgically there was no significant advantage of adenoidectomy alone over the baseline category of tube insertion alone . |
| 15 | Many can forage above ground at night but they laboriously shield themselves from predators by constructing covered run-ways , and thin crusts of mud all over the vegetation they are plundering . |
| 16 | This Easter we have seen the groundswell of demand all over the world that the arms race be brought to a standstill . |
| 17 | I went out to water some plants and there was piles of soil all over the lawn — I was furious . |
| 18 | Trotsky attached great importance , at least in his criticisms of Stalin , to political control by the elected representatives of the mass membership of the party and of society generally over the party and state bureaucracies . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I know that there are no easy answers , but if we do not at least attempt to act decisively , Zagreb , Dubrovnik , Vukovar and Osijek could be just the first names on a ghastly roll call resembling those unending , poignant first world war memorials that are such a feature of life all over the continent of Europe . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some firms of English solicitors have branch offices in the major centres of commerce all over the world , to advise local clients on English law . |
| 23 | There is going to be a serious shortage of food all over the world during the next year . |
| 24 | Today they are an important source of food all over the world . |
| 25 | The trouble was that the land belonged to a family who lived in London and owned parcels of land all over the country and had so far resisted all attempts to relinquish this innocuous piece of British soil . |
| 26 | These source rocks are the peridotites , and since geophysics tells us that the mantle consists of the same kind of material all over the world , it 's clear that melting part of the mantle beneath Hawaii should produce the same kind of rocks as those produced by melting part of the mantle beneath Iceland . |
| 27 | and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street |
| 28 | Miss Jarman 's words dropped like a stone in a pond , causing ripples of protest all over the room . |
| 29 | To some extent , little or much , the Created God has been in course of production all over the world for all time . |