Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry McLaughlin , the deputy editor of the Irish News , said some of the material shown to him was marked ‘ top secret ’ , the highest security classification , and went beyond the type of photo-montage material that has been widely leaked over the past month . |
| 2 | They all heard the noise of feet at once , and instinctively leaned over the battlements , craning to see . |
| 3 | Desperately unlucky at Crayford last month , the lightweight bitch has since won over the Leger course . |
| 4 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 5 | We all agree to the need for more rational use of insecticides than hitherto , especially in agriculture ; yet insecticides to control mosquitoes are normally applied to the inside walls and roofs of buildings so that , unlike agricultural pesticides , they are not widely dispersed over the landscape but confined within houses . |
| 6 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 7 | The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible . |
| 8 | Lewis had a distinctive manner of lecturing , which was not greatly altered over the years . |
| 9 | There has not been too much building to spoil the village , and the population has not greatly altered over the years , so it is a pleasant village in which to live . |
| 10 | They are now to admit women to orders , orders which they themselves have rightly filled over the centuries . |
| 11 | Much modified over the war years , in 1944 a much refined and altered version emerged as the Yak–18 which continued the successful line for many more years . |
| 12 | Wayne 's going-out stuff , all hung over the back of his one upright chair , had the definite air of being from another world altogether . |
| 13 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 14 | There are Early American patchwork quilts in red and white , an 1840 American cradle and a homely 20-dollar porch chair , all collected over the years . |
| 15 | Seven years later , however , Christien has not only got over the pain but has used the experience to make him a better actor . |
| 16 | Branson was personally angered over the negotiations with the singer Sade . |
| 17 | O. segesta Lyman from off Bermuda was thought to differ from O. smitti in having longer , thinner spinelets and rods sparsely distributed over the surface of the disk and the arm spines , particularly the ventral ones , were more rugose . |
| 18 | Also a receiver is only appointed over the assets of a company and does not control the shares in that company unless he has been appointed receiver over the assets of its holding company . |
| 19 | The site , near modern Kerma , has been known since the 1920s but the city underneath has only emerged over the last ten years . |
| 20 | As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process . |
| 21 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 22 | It is a condition that has so worsened over the years that I no longer dare perform introductions I simply mumble ’ You two must know each other ’ and leave them to sort it out . |
| 23 | He had languidly stretched one arm out and in doing so knocked over the wine bottle . |
| 24 | With lights and sounds , the aroma of malt , hops and barley is gently wafted over the audience . |
| 25 | I am extremely baffled over the deaths and by the behaviour of the older fish . |
| 26 | The reach of the sea up estuaries and along the great rivers was much extended over the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries . |
| 27 | It has been much improved over the previous version and humanized , to boot . |
| 28 | There was also a lot of clay in one part of the garden and sand in the rest , but the soil has been much improved over the years by generous additions of peat . |
| 29 | The ECJ has rather wavered over the issue in relation to the Transfers Directive . |
| 30 | Two strips of waste wood were slowly fed over the revolving cutter and cramped to the table . |