Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond , the computer personnel were looking around in horror , some with hands over their ears as the screaming went on and on . |
| 2 | They found that cockroaches infected with Herpomyces and kept in close confinement inoculated one another with spores over the entire surface of their bodies , but only the spores adhering to the upper three-fourths of the antennae were able to germinate and grow . |
| 3 | Recession has hit some towns harder than others , and Bookland branches reflected this in sales over the Christmas period ranging from 20% up to declines of 15%l ‘ Overall takings will be up by a few points , but volume will be very slightly down . ’ |
| 4 | Below : Dan Keller 's NA-64 Yale N3406 leads another in formation over the New York State greensward . |
| 5 | How 're you doing ? ’ — this to Maxim over Agnes 's shoulder stretching out a big hand ’ you must be Major Harry Maxim . |
| 6 | Rachaela 's mother had said this to Rachaela over more trivial offences . |
| 7 | AST now earns 7% of its revenue from open systems business , but is hoping to expand this to 30% over the next three years . |
| 8 | But in fact , they 're as much about power over yourself and self-belief as they are about domination of others . |
| 9 | They also underlay the scepticism of other states such as Japan over such neutralisation . |
| 10 | MasPar sees the combination being used to take care of the problems created by the need for economical storage , low-speed transmission and bandwidth multiplication for applications such as video-on-demand over telephone networks , direct broadcast satellite and cable television services , optical disk and Compact Disk Karaoke . |
| 11 | Pollution from car exhausts may explain the rise in allergic conditions such as hayfever over the last 20 years , according to Professor Robert Davies of Bartholemew 's Hospital , London . |
| 12 | Sometimes disputes are about their own boundaries — such as arguments over fencing — and sometimes they are about land in common ownership , anything from a medieval village green to a modern multi-storey car park . |
| 13 | This means that customers can use X25 to establish Telnet sessions , as well as concurrently routing other traffic such as IPX over X25 . |
| 14 | There was a long silence , such as falls over a saloon bar in a Western at moments of confrontation . |
| 15 | For the union , it was an opportunity not only to protect its long-held privileges — such as consultation over pit closures and the cutting of coal on five days a week only — but also to demonstrate the power of extra-parliamentary opposition to the ‘ elected dictatorship ’ in Whitehall . |
| 16 | Expansion of their wealth depended upon drawing serfs away from the land to labour in the towns ( thus serfs who could remain hidden within town walls for a year and a day gained freedom from the land ) and on undermining those aristocratic privileges , such as control over roads , which inhibited commercial activity . |
| 17 | Much of geography over the last 40 years has been concerned with analysing these subsystems by breaking down each subsystem into ever smaller component parts and studying these parts , and their interrelationships , at an increasing level of detail . |
| 18 | The trouble is , he lets his frustration get the better of him sometimes and snarls and snaps at anyone who is not too much in authority over him . |
| 19 | The Committee has appointed six sub-committees — each with competence over particular aspects of Community activity . |
| 20 | Now the 27-year-old accountant is hopeful of surpassing even that with victory over Cork next Sunday in Croke Park . |
| 21 | Despite writing a pet column for the Daily Telegraph for more than four years , I have been given no information at all about Crufts over the past two years . |
| 22 | During his reign he added vast territories to the Frankish kingdom that he had inherited ; Lombardy ( the traditional enemy of both Franks and papacy ) , parts of Spain , all of Saxony over a prolonged period of campaigning , and Slavonic regions of the Drave and Elbe . |
| 23 | Alfred ( Finney ) and Michael ( Stephen Moore ) have n't spoken since the former took the latter to court over a play called Family Matters which exposed the skeletons in the Manx cupboard . |
| 24 | They argued contentedly about which saint emerged as the more attractive personality : St Benedict won on grounds of religious influence , St Luke on those of influence over secular life , because of his gospel . |
| 25 | we saw a lot more of macca over here . |
| 26 | Admirals , and those with influence over such officers , were in a position to patronise persons recommended by their friends . |
| 27 | And still others remain discretely silent — the last resort of those with power over the microphone button . |
| 28 | Regular workers appear to cooperate much more with management over changes in work practices , job allocation , retraining or transfers to related companies . |
| 29 | One has a duty to obey those in authority over one even in circumstances in which disobedience does not imperil their existence or functioning . |
| 30 | It then supplements the pre-emption thesis by showing that we should be concerned not merely to have the proper attitude to those in authority over us , but also to those in authority over others . |