Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 2 | This , he says , will be increased to £40m to allow for the insulation of 250,000 low income homes over the next year . |
| 3 | As the curtain opened there hobbled from the wings what appeared to be an old Chinese mandarin with flowing blue robes , black silk jacket and red-buttoned Mandarin cap over hair that fell down his back in a long pigtail . |
| 4 | And of course there is the sort of evaluation that judges the effectiveness of this or that teaching method over another . |
| 5 | The Deserted Medieval Village Research Group ( now the Medieval Villages Research Group ) , which was formed in 1952 as a multi-disciplinary research body , drawing in geographers , historians , and archaeologists as well as natural scientists , has revolutionised our concepts of rural settlement changes over the last 2000 years . |
| 6 | A colt by Shirley Heights , he is sure to go on to better things following a narrow debut victory over Shepton Mallet at Newmarket in July . |
| 7 | A colt by Shirley Heights , he is sure to go on to better things following a narrow debut victory over Shepton Mallet at Newmarket in July . |
| 8 | Sadly , however , his delicate tidiness is wasted-the bin is a bottomless shell and the liquid vomit showers over the wall , on to his trousers . |
| 9 | She watched his tall figure stride over the marble floor . |
| 10 | In our own tests we found that the Grizzled Skipper with 512K RAM fitted showed little speed advantage over a Super VGA card with 1MB RAM which is commonly fitted in many high-end machines . |
| 11 | Despite these various arguments suggesting high unemployment from rapid technical change which are based on the foundation laid by him , Leontief has himself , with a colleague ( Leontief and Duchin 1983 ) , recently published the results of a survey of the likely effects of new technology on the US economy up to the year 2000 which concludes that , far from there being net job losses , there will be a substantial rise in the aggregate labour force over this period due to the rapid take-up of the technology . |
| 12 | er , yeah , I like the one when that car run over that woman 's hat |
| 13 | At the same time he introduced progressive speed trials over the measured mile for all vessels built at the yard . |
| 14 | But the cost of conversion often pushed the total outlay way over the property 's market value . |
| 15 | I said do n't hold your breath Elaine but if it 's what I think 's in that carrier bag over there it ai n't a voucher , cos they all were saying |
| 16 | Record audiences were attracted by Quatermass and the Pit , which regularly emptied pubs and clubs each Saturday night over its six week run . |
| 17 | Another idea would be the lace anniversary , when you could perhaps arrange some cow parsley over a fabric lace background . |
| 18 | Massage some vegetable oil over your flabby bits , then sprinkle some sea salt onto a flannel or natural sponge , and rub gently . |
| 19 | Just before baking , brush with beaten egg and sprinkle some sesame seeds over the finished flaounes . |
| 20 | Nor does British Rail enthuse over job prospects . |
| 21 | Eventually I realised that a weapon could be more effective than my 11-year-old fists and depleted teeth , so I smashed an empty milk bottle over his head . |
| 22 | Fighting another NME writer over a woman ; having a pint of beer in the Roxy with Robert Plant ; realising that Sid Vicious could be fronted out because he only picked on those that he was likely to win against . |
| 23 | The PFA refused to specify who was to blame for the red tape , though here have been differences in the past with nearby RAF Lyneham over airspace . |
| 24 | A German Foreign Ministry spokesperson reported that a meeting of EC representatives in Lisbon on April 2 had approved a German proposal for a formal EC protest to the Turkish government over the recent military action against civilians [ see pp. 38833-34 ; for resignation of German Defence Minister over sale of vehicles to Turkey see p. 38822 ] . |
| 25 | The firm emerges as Britain 's top performing company over the last five years . |
| 26 | Their resale potential is , however , undermined by their standardized production , and , although they will probably hold their value better than most Indian , Chinese , Pakistani or Balkan items , they are unlikely to develop high investment potential over the longer term . |
| 27 | OK , so her date with O'Shea had n't turned out as he 'd imagined , but the fact remained she had chosen her old college buddy over him — a fact that rankled for reasons he did n't care to examine . |
| 28 | Declining car sales in the UK last year did little to dent the popularity of German car manufacturers over here . |
| 29 | The judge was to carry out an agreed investigation into the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 in which 170 people died [ see p. 36910 ] . |
| 30 | On Nov. 27 a warning had been issued to the government by France , the United Kingdom and the USA , to hand over two men suspected of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , in December 1988 , and to co-operate in bringing to trial suspects in the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 [ see p. 39215 ] . |