Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Not only had I had three months reprieve , but there had been no confrontation over any further treatment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One was tall and grey-haired , thin but broad-shouldered , wearing a voluminous cricket sweater over baggy grey trousers . |
| 9 | 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 ? ? |
| 10 | Mr Scargill has blamed the Soviet miners for the confusion over this whole affair , could that be correct ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Despite liberal panic over this new agenda , it represents greater possibilities for the re-examination and re-presentation of disabled people . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | French farmers are in revolt over imported British agricultural software . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | And I like to keep it that way still if I can , because you can make yourself a lot of work over some small incident sometimes . |
| 20 | He and Charlie had had a good laugh over that particular house , but there had been something serious in Charlie 's laughter and Jack had guessed he aimed high . |
| 21 | If he is acquainted with the New Testament , he should remember that it was after St. Paul 's conversion that he exercised such great influence over all future history . |
| 22 | My wife and I do n't believe this practice can be illegal but we both feel that such a man with influence over vulnerable young boys is the wrong person to teach them . |
| 23 | Johnstone was almost certainly excused because a group of very vocal team mates under the leadership of Billy Bremner were exerting a powerful influence over Scottish footballing affairs , an influence that probably undermined and eventually curtailed Ormond 's period as manager . |
| 24 | The Financial Times of July 28 described it as " the most significant example yet of the Community 's growing influence over national fiscal policy " . |
| 25 | One of the main advantages of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy over other non-operative techniques is that it can be used for 78% of patients , with stones of any composition , number and size , and a patent cystic duct is not essential . |
| 26 | For them , and for some neglected novelists , Time would always be a wayward thing , climbing over life like a variegated ivy over some old house . |
| 27 | Anxiety over global environmental change has perhaps made us more aware of the converse idea : that the activities of microbes largely determine the state of the biosphere , and in particular the evolution of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 28 | If only that was what I felt when I looked in the mirror , instead of anxiety over these little springs of steel . |
| 29 | The phases of Russell 's pursuit of truth are roughly these : as a boy , as a youth , he had an intense battle over traditional religious belief . |
| 30 | Dad blinked at the back , disturbed by the noise and the crowd , the wild St Vitus dancing over young inert figures comatose in puddles of beer . |