Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever . |
| 2 | Palaces and rich houses all over town are echoing emptily now . |
| 3 | And we 've tried to get something for everyone , we 've got 2 classical music concerts , for instance , the Johannis Piano Trio , and then a specially sort of brought together rainforest orchestra , where professional musicians all over the county can come together to create a programme . |
| 4 | Bagnères was and is still , seemingly , the home of the Chanteurs Montagnards , or Mountain Singers , who sang Pyrenean songs all over Europe in the 1840s , in the years when these mountains were at their most romantic . |
| 5 | They bloody speakers all over the place . |
| 6 | Apparently it was n't thought essential , but odd leaks from the room-nodes around spilled weight intermittently over her . |
| 7 | Dr P was asked what effect the growth of English literature all over the world , and the advent of modern literary criticism , had had on English teaching in universities : |
| 8 | What was he , your second Gabriel , doing with his mucky old fingers all over your mirror ? ’ |
| 9 | He has little difficulty in pulling summer sheets and other light rugs straight over his head , even if there are straps under his tummy , so at night he has a rug with leg straps to keep it in place . |
| 10 | We got to thinking that if we came to Los Angeles regularly we could make these shows all the time and send them to English-speaking countries all over the world . |
| 11 | We have WS & C offices with trained staffs all over the Continent . |
| 12 | After the ingestion of the lactulose drink or the rice flour meal end expiratory breath samples were collected in 50 ml polyethylene syringes at time 0 and 15 minute intervals thereafter over a 5.5 or seven hour period for the lactulose or the rice flour test respectively . |
| 13 | When he died they found seven thousand pounds in notes hidden away in different places all over his cottage … ’ |
| 14 | Demand is high and dealers in the United States regularly receive inquiries from interested buyers all over the world . |
| 15 | In the case of Augustus we are lucky enough to have the text of The Achievements of the Divine Augustus , which was inscribed on public buildings all over the Roman world and may have been written by Augustus himself during the course of his reign . |
| 16 | There were empty stations all over the region . |
| 17 | It is now mass-produced and freshly baked in supermarkets ' own in-store bakeries all over the country . |
| 18 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
| 19 | Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain . |
| 20 | THE Manchester United footballer Viv Anderson was given a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story in the Daily Star concerning a post-match clash between Anderson and the Wimbledon player John Fashanu . |
| 21 | ALISTAIR Bell , whose wife was found murdered in a sports centre car park , won undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story linking him with her death . |
| 22 | SIS accepted ‘ substantial ’ libel damages in the High Court yesterday over the Channel 4 programme ‘ Against The Odds ’ shown in December 1990 , which claimed the company was involved in a conspiracy with major bookmakers to manipulate starting prices . |
| 23 | I saw lots of British people all over the stadium , waving huge Union Jacks . |
| 24 | It occurred to National Certificate staff that instead of programming say twenty subject assessors to different centres all over the country on a particular day , all twenty could be programmed to visit the same centre on the same day . |
| 25 | The main objective of the project is to improve our understanding of the processes by which dominant firms achieve and maintain dominance in their markets and industries ; to explore the determinants of profitability of these firms ( especially the role of investment in R&D ) , particularly where they are apparently able to earn high profits persistently over time ; to evaluate their dynamic efficiency in terms of new products , improved quality and cost-reducing new technology ; and to inform and strengthen the policy analysis of dominant firms . |
| 26 | ‘ Randy 's a major collector of guitars ; he and Brian dedicate most of their spare time to tracking down old Gretsches all over the country . |
| 27 | School- teachers all over Sarawak who supported the PBDS have since been threatened with disciplinary action . |
| 28 | I 've tried seventy-one different doctors all over the country but none of them know how to help . |
| 29 | When using a plunger , ensure that it seals well on to the surface ( smearing petroleum jelly on to the rubber surface helps ) and that you do n't simply pump the water up the overflow pipe and back into the sink — hold a wet cloth tightly over the overflow while using one . |
| 30 | Tucking my load of sticks under one arm , and rubbing my free hand hard over face and hair , I scurried for the safety of the cottage . |