Example sentences of "[noun] over [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |
| 2 | She had a natural restraint , unlike my father who , one Sunday night on his way back from chapel , took a short cut over some rough ground and broke his ankle . |
| 3 | The landscapes differed from those of the last day 's walk , and were seen in another mood ; the rain-clouds floated high , the road lay over rocky ridges , the homesteads had an amplitude of stone wall fencing over these exposed seaboard cliffs ; and they were built more compactly to withstand all assaults . |
| 4 | In my heart I know she is mine but the uncertainty over all this is agonising . |
| 5 | This project has three objectives : to investigate how accurately parents and their adolescent children can predict each other 's thinking over complex moral and social problems ; to assess whether the degree of such accuracy is related to the nature and extent of parent-adolescent conflicts , and to test whether an individual at one level of cognitive development can describe the view of another person who is assumed to be at a higher level . |
| 6 | Working clothes today were olive-green Bermuda shorts , a matching T-shirt with the IMP logo front and back , and trainers over thin green cotton socks , leaving her long legs bare . |
| 7 | The maximum number of new shares which may be issued under the schemes is restricted to 5% of the issued ordinary share capital over the first five years ending in 1991 and thereafter 3% over any three year period . |
| 8 | Not only had I had three months reprieve , but there had been no confrontation over any further treatment . |
| 9 | It also provided for increased powers for the provincial governments , including a veto for all provinces over future constitutional change . |
| 10 | It also provided for increased powers for the provincial governments , including a veto for all provinces over future constitutional change . |
| 11 | Under the direction of Mr T. J. Papworth of GeoMinerals Exploration Inc. , a CGG crew , using four vibrators , successfully recorded two lines AA' and BB' over Mesozoic sedimentary strata and thin basalt remnants close to the coast and to the edge of the basalt outcrop to the north of Belfast . |
| 12 | The there will be three distances involved Brough Park 290m , 460m , 670m ; Cleveland Park 266m , 464m , 640m ; Sunderland 255m , 450m , 631m and the aggregate points winners over all three legs . |
| 13 | In electronics , filters are used , for example , to suppress an undesirable signal that occurs at some frequency , to extract sinusoidal signals over some particular frequency band from a wider range of sinusoidal signals and to convert a nonsinusoidal signal into a sinusoidal signal of the same period . |
| 14 | It was a picture of Dick Hansen over that frozen lake in his P-40 . |
| 15 | The equivalent of our restrained glee over this little triumph is an organisation whose policy is : we will use people of any age … but those bastards at the insurance company wo n't let us use anyone over 70 . |
| 16 | One was tall and grey-haired , thin but broad-shouldered , wearing a voluminous cricket sweater over baggy grey trousers . |
| 17 | There were also pages of poems forced into some sort of rhyming structure so that they might conceivably have worked as songs , several paragraphs of references to critical works ( Barthes , especially ; Death of the Author ! shouted what looked like a headline over one entire page of notes devoted to ideas about a looseleaf novel/poem ? ? |
| 18 | Besides , straining one 's eyes over these distant shapes can not compete with the fun available so near at hand . |
| 19 | A team of six inspectors compiled the reports from visits to homes over last three months , and from almost a thousand questionnaires . |
| 20 | Mr Scargill has blamed the Soviet miners for the confusion over this whole affair , could that be correct ? |
| 21 | In agricultural history it is evident that a macro-economic overview is necessarily limited because we have no usable index of agricultural rent over any considerable period . |
| 22 | It would be difficult to reduce the contents of the Review over this whole range to some kind of collective ideological manifesto , but for reasons different from those discussed above in relation to the Newbolt Report . |
| 23 | Endothelin-1-like immunoreactivity ( ET-1-IR ) was seen only occasionally in the pulmonary vascular endothelium and neuroendocrine cells of the control lungs , and there was no staining over other epithelial cells . |
| 24 | Despite liberal panic over this new agenda , it represents greater possibilities for the re-examination and re-presentation of disabled people . |
| 25 | MINISTERS hoping to head off another revolt over expected public spending cuts are to hold a series of meetings with Tory MPs to try and win support . |
| 26 | French farmers are in revolt over imported British agricultural software . |
| 27 | With the help of the unattractive Jeff Daniels as an FBI agent assigned to watch her , she solves the mystery , culminating in a sub-Hitchcockian chase over Grand Central Station 's roof . |
| 28 | That echoes the fierce debate in England over so-called trendy teaching methods , and over political interference in the curriculum by the Government . |
| 29 | What that clearly involves ( Table I.5 ) is first , a relatively stable total proportion over statutory retirement-pension age , but second , a substantial increase in the number and proportion of that retirement-age population which is over 85 , and a decrease in the number and proportion of 65 to 74 year-olds who are now often described as ‘ the young elderly ’ . |
| 30 | But it has many advantages over other holographic transform methods . |