Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wage differentials notwithstanding , the nominal wages of London 's skilled men did not much move over the century until the last decade . |
| 2 | If we do , and win , will he not merely flee over the Border , and come back with more English ? |
| 3 | I 'd better get over the road |
| 4 | Yet , in the longer term , there can be no doubt that within nuclear expansion , increased coal use and the resurrection of the synfuels programme resides the US 's only chance of reducing imported oil dependence , which will inexorably increase over the rest of the century . |
| 5 | It can only fly over the country called Balnibarbi , which belongs to the King of Laputa . |
| 6 | You may not knock over the wine , but the person sitting next to you and other members of the audience wo n't listen to your words . |
| 7 | Or they might just clamber over the wall at any point . |
| 8 | ( Robyn scans the front-page headline of the Guardian , ‘ LAWSON DRAWN INTO FRAY OVER WESTLAND ’ , but does not linger over the text beneath . |
| 9 | We will not linger over the fiction of popular representation … let us rather see what is the substance beneath the various forms of power in the governing class . |
| 10 | We cooked dinner , packed up things we did not need over the next two days and had a group meeting to discuss the itinerary for our journey home . |
| 11 | Few were surprised that the whole exercise did not win over the Stock Exchange . |
| 12 | The rhetoric of equal opportunity could not finally win over the entrenched interests in a broad-meshed filter , a crude sieve for the child population . |
| 13 | In a number of situations the costs of the products will be a basis for setting prices , e.g. where the market price does not predominate over the pricing decision , as in the case of a monopoly or an oligopoly . |
| 14 | There were strong regional differences ( with the south being the least tolerant region ) after individual social and economic characteristics had been taken into account , however , and those regional differences did not decline over the period . |
| 15 | Again do not round over the sharp edges when sanding . |
| 16 | Its critics say that even if the waves do not lap over the runway , exorbitant landing fees will frustrate Osaka 's ambitions to displace Seoul as an airline hub for East Asia . |
| 17 | He could already see over the rue Victorie at the front and over his father 's garden at the back . |
| 18 | Down at Lucifer 's feet , in front of the stage , a girl with long , black hair stood on tip-toe but still could not see over the heads of the crowd . |
| 19 | I sank down further until I could just see over the seat in front . |
| 20 | Chapman did not score over the three games and that was probably the biggest single practical reason — among many — why we did so well . |
| 21 | Their anaemia did not recur over the follow up period . |
| 22 | While it is true that the spores can easily hop over the garden fence , and there is not a lot to be done about sources of infection further along the road , much can be done by being entirely ruthless in cleaning up your fallen leaves and rose debris . |
| 23 | ‘ In any case , if someone is determined to go in the sea , for whatever reason , they can just hop over the wall , which is only two or three feet high . |
| 24 | Of course , it is essential that we do not cross over the line of ‘ Insider Dealing ’ by giving privileged information . |
| 25 | When Lord John Russell declared that ‘ the whisper of a faction could not prevail over the voice of a nation ’ , he was appealing to moral principle ; and if , when that appeal was made , it chimed in with political expediency it was only because factious and sometimes unprincipled Tory opposition had made it to do so . |
| 26 | Moreover , in relations between member states , rights and obligations arising from the Convention of 1958 could not prevail over the obligations of member states under the E.E.C . |
| 27 | But , for all the toughness of Knobelsdorf , one may well ask why the Crown Prince , with his unique access to the ear of the All-highest , could not prevail over the views of his Chief-of-Staff ? |
| 28 | They just will not go over the bridge . ’ |
| 29 | America 's first hostile bids did not go over the heads of the managers , but that did not make them friendly . |
| 30 | When you beat your olive trees , you shall not go over the boughs again ; it shall be for the sojourner , the fatherless and the widow . |