Example sentences of "[adv] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are able to collect the information detailed below over a number of informal visits , and are now required to present your preliminary conclusions and recommendations for Davenport 's consideration . |
| 2 | Shortages vary somewhat over the country . |
| 3 | While most participants perceived the problem they differed somewhat over the matter of its resolution . |
| 4 | After all , mass-produced will always be mass-produced , but the whole point of mass-produced electrics is that you can walk into a store , pick the very best example from a row of several , spend a little money on a great setup , and maybe some pickups , and still save enough over a custom guitar to buy yourself an extremely nice amplifier . |
| 5 | He was amiable enough over the port . |
| 6 | ‘ The pencil could not go fast enough over the paper , so quickly changed the scenes . ’ |
| 7 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |
| 8 | But rabbits are most accessible to the mink in the spring and autumn , and much less so over the winter . |
| 9 | My first ever act went really well ; I was so over the moon I walked all the way home to Streatham with this huge smile on my face . |
| 10 | And if he and his secretary had returned , she felt she stood a better chance of establishing an interview by calling in person rather than trying to do so over the phone . |
| 11 | Bowen delivered the ideal ball into the penalty area and Sutton reached it before the advancing Norman only to flick it a yard or so over the top . |
| 12 | If you are one of the people who think all that pre-match razzamattazz is so over the top , the actual kick-off is 8pm . |
| 13 | My Lords , the short answer to this lies in the very extensive powers which Lord Chetwode [ the settlor ] had over the assets of the settlement and so over the share capital of Attleborough . |
| 14 | If you need to withdraw more than £500 you can do so over the counter at your Midland branch . |
| 15 | For example , if some of the roses will be perfumed , then ideally they should be placed near the path , so that you can smell the scent as you walk past and , if you wish to bury your nose in the flower , you wo n't have to trample halfway over the flower bed to reach the appropriate bloom . |
| 16 | He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates . |
| 17 | The argument is likely to be less over the substance of the legislation than over whether the system can be implemented . |
| 18 | Genetic , sex , and environmental effects are eliminated in each within-twins difference and the mean of the these differences is a good measure of the X-effect even if the average response varies greatly over the twin pairs . |
| 19 | For l/d = 540 , the range has been observed to start at a Reynolds number ( based on a velocity averaged not only over a cross-section but also over a cycle of the pulsation ) of about 4700 ; the intermittency factor at the outlet became unity at Re = 5900 . |
| 20 | In the past New Zealand have insisted that the Cup would be at stake only over a Test series , or in a one-off Test . |
| 21 | Academic basics can be drummed into a reasonably receptive dealer through the BIDS or Stock Exchange courses , but the practical market know-how that was most needed could be grasped only over a period . |
| 22 | The formation of financial conglomerates , embodying commercial banking , stock-broking , market making , fund management etc , raise concerns not only over a clash of interests between conglomerate and client but also over a clash of obligations owed by the conglomerate to two or more clients . |
| 23 | The Supervisory Authority exercises its supervision not only over the operation of the stock exchange but also over all public buying and selling of securities . |
| 24 | I went Street erm , which was just next door to Grandma 's , only over the wall , . |
| 25 | Immediately behind and above the waterfall , the sloping hillside had become a fifty-foot smooth rocky cliff , so that the water poured not only over the edge above , but out into the pool , leaving a ledge along which Bill Robins now beckoned me . |
| 26 | It is only over the question of Faculty examinations and the associated ‘ grandfathering ’ provisions that there is a material divergence of views between the two bodies . |
| 27 | Since the line managers are typically allocated the authority to control resources and staff are not , or are allocated authority only over the resource in which they specialize , there is an inevitable imbalance . |
| 28 | Given their portrayal by trade unionists as rich members of the bourgeouisie who were concerned only over the value of their property , they did not expect a sympathetic reception from workers . |
| 29 | The outcome was clearly welcomed by those with liberal sentiments : for however much one may deplore the sexual activities of young teenagers , there can surely be little doubt that the protection of such a girl from an unwanted pregnancy must be a matter of primary importance , and , therefore , if need be , have precedence not only over the right of parents to give or withhold consent , but even over the right to information regarding their child , for whom they are legally responsible . |
| 30 | Instead of scraping them , a heavy expenditure was incurred on pumps , carts and hired labour to keep down dust levels by watering : " the mud indeed is so very deep all the winter and so fluid after rain , as to render it unsafe to meet horses , owing to their feet throwing the mud not only over an horseman 's clothes but also into his eyes " . |