Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Minister accept that the flaw in his argument is that no figure is projected for the next financial year which will take the amount needed over the present limits agreed under the 1987 legislation ? |
| 2 | Four men have presided over the Fifth Republic created in 1958 : its founder , Charles de Gaulle ( born 1890 , President 1958 — 69 ) ; Georges Pompidou ( 1911 ; 1969–74 ) ; Valery Giscard d'Estaing ( 1926 ; 1974–8 1 ) ; Francois Mitterrand ( 1916 ; 1981- ) . |
| 3 | This was before the building of New Bridge Road and it now seems impossible that the large convoy of vehicles could ever make its way over the narrow bridges leading into the city . |
| 4 | The resultant political disunity , probably exacerbated by quarrels over the best methods to adopt against the Scandinavians , and coupled with the king 's apparent inability to provide the necessary leadership , made it impossible to assemble successful armies . |
| 5 | Lobbying of Napolitano 's followers over the following days resulted in Occhetto 's gaining 71.5 per cent of the votes in a second vote on Feb. 8 , in which he was again the only candidate . |
| 6 | ‘ The battle ’ hovers over the individual actions like in incorporeal cloud , distinct from them , but at the same time making up a surface of their meaning-effect , a simulacrum that brings the event into being at the moment when language and event coincide . |
| 7 | basically the criteria is what is the most , how is it most sensibly dealt with , right , cos you do n't want a or somebody like that rushing all over the bleeding country going to Aberdeen one minute , Edinburgh the next |
| 8 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 9 | Then her breath was lost completely when Guy 's mouth left her throat and closed hotly over the tender peak cupped in his hand . |
| 10 | In comparison the er the the smallest projection put forward by Mr Thomas , would actually result in a twenty one percent decrease in building rates over that approved in the adopted adopted plan , and a thirty two percent increase over the actual rate experienced since nineteen eighty one . |
| 11 | ISRAEL : Fighting between Israel and Palestinians over the Occupied Territories captured in the Six Day War of 1967 . |
| 12 | Since the wires are stationary only the disc contributes to the e.m.f. , hence the integration over the closed path reduces to integration along the radius of the disc , yielding |
| 13 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
| 14 | She picked up the stick and hurled it , skimming it low over the shallow pools left by the tide . |
| 15 | Profits over the nine-month period fell by 34% to £633m . |
| 16 | Particular concern is merited over the dominance of writing , especially where this is a tow-level , time-filling activity ; over the general failure to exploit the potential of collaborative activity — especially since every one of the sixty classrooms we visited in the classroom practice study used a grouping system of some kind ; and over the limited opportunities given to children for work-related talk of a challenging kind . |
| 17 | Facing ever increasing numbers of Norse raids the Mages of Saphery draw a shroud of mists over the eastern sea approaches to Ulthuan . |
| 18 | People are also being asked to make their voices heard expressing concern over the possible cut to aid to the third world . |
| 19 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 20 | There were still arguments over the additional protocols insisted upon by France . |
| 21 | So much for the son 's manic triumph over the phallic mother symbolized by the arrogant domination and tree-felling exploits of Gilgamesh or the Amazon-slaying of the Greek heroes ; but what of the homosexual element in the situation to which I alluded earlier ? |
| 22 | THERE has been a considerable outcry from St Helens supporters over the eight-match ban imposed on the club 's Kiwi loose forward Shane Cooper two weeks ago . |
| 23 | But the characters played by Leslie Banks in The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) , or Robert Donat in The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) , are archetypically English in their capacity to muddle through , triumphing over the dark forces ranged against them by their flexibility of mind . |
| 24 | Children from all over the Western Isles come to Stornoway to finish their secondary education accommodated in hostels at the Nicolson Institute or the Lews Castle Technical College . |
| 25 | In the act of sliding a hand lovingly up over the satin-smooth skin stretched over the hard muscles of his upper arm , Maria halted as fear of the future caught at her and her fingers dug violently into his flesh . |
| 26 | Therefore , three of the four documented deaths over the intervening period occurred in those who had survived for at least 5 years after surgery . |
| 27 | The number of ganglion cells was estimated by representing their distribution as mathematical functions and integrating numerically over the polygonal region demarcated by the four labelled sites , and over the remaining area of the retina . |
| 28 | To make an equivalent investment in one slice , rather than over the 15-year span recorded in this volume , would be an enormous burden . |
| 29 | A gold sword hilt from the temple at Mallia shows an acrobat performing a back somersault ( Figure 29 ) ; perhaps , as Professor Alexiou suggests ( undated , p. 49 ) , in reality this feat was performed over the self-same sword planted in the ground , point upwards . |
| 30 | They were made into medicines , perfumes and unguents by the Egyptian priests and priestesses who became so renowned for their skills that sages and physicians from all over the ancient world came to Egypt to study medicine and the Mysteries . |