Example sentences of "[vb infin] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet she did compromise over the budget at Fontainebleau in 1984 , signed the Single European Act in 1986 , and accepted the Delors proposals for budgeting and agriculture reform in 1988 . |
| 2 | An image flitted into her mind : she saw herself plunge over the edge of that black pit and tumble helplessly through the dark . |
| 3 | In a number of situations the costs of the products will be a basis for setting prices , e.g. where the market price does not predominate over the pricing decision , as in the case of a monopoly or an oligopoly . |
| 4 | Many priests have said they 'll resign over the issue once the legislation is given Parliament 's and the Queen 's assent . |
| 5 | His soul would have no repose and would hover over the place , flying through the night . |
| 6 | In this form he would hover over the battlefield , dipping down to engulf enemy troopers , to consume those like fat in a furnace so that their smoke would rise up as incense into Dorn 's amber nostrils and by way of that conduit across time and space — beyond mortality itself — into the God-Emperor 's seared olfactory lobes so that the Divine Person would pause for a microsecond in his eternal scrutiny of the cosmos from his golden throne and would exclaim inwardly , ‘ What sweet fragrance is that ? |
| 7 | If the bolts were responsible , then a further question mark will hang over the future of the industry . |
| 8 | Grim prospects do hang over the heads of black school leavers and the research of Gloria Lee and John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry ( 1981 ) . |
| 9 | They believed success could win over the students and other intellectuals . |
| 10 | Few were surprised that the whole exercise did not win over the Stock Exchange . |
| 11 | may jump over the dog , |
| 12 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 13 | I could jump over the side . |
| 14 | We will not linger over the fiction of popular representation … let us rather see what is the substance beneath the various forms of power in the governing class . |
| 15 | ( Robyn scans the front-page headline of the Guardian , ‘ LAWSON DRAWN INTO FRAY OVER WESTLAND ’ , but does not linger over the text beneath . |
| 16 | Roy shrugged off his own coat while still sitting , letting it fall over the back of his chair . |
| 17 | The sense of urgency conveyed by the ‘ Look out ’ indicates the expectation that the pram , complete with baby , will fall over the cliff and perhaps be dashed on the rocks beneath and it is further assumed that this will be-deleterious for the baby . |
| 18 | There is also the additional hazard that if the rope breaks at the towplane end , it may fall over the glider , causing damage . |
| 19 | She did n't fall over the wheel and she did pass her test . |
| 20 | ‘ Now , let them fall over the cloth , ’ Azmaveth said , ‘ from a height of two handspans . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But wo n't they fall over the milk-crates ? ’ a teacher asked when it was proposed that two young children with severe visual problems should join the reception group . |
| 22 | Might fall over the wire . |
| 23 | Something you could buy over the counter at a supermarket . |
| 24 | There are several effective preparations you can buy over the counter , in the form of pleasant-tasting drinks or tablets . |
| 25 | Its critics say that even if the waves do not lap over the runway , exorbitant landing fees will frustrate Osaka 's ambitions to displace Seoul as an airline hub for East Asia . |
| 26 | Any disappointment he may feel over the delay has been more than compensated for by the news that tickets for this year 's event are already selling fast . |
| 27 | So I 'll blur over the consequences for Ulster and hurry on to my next point — the re-establishment of an Irish House of Lords , the first since 1801 . |
| 28 | If we go to any local government official and talk to him about local government finance and how the council tax might work , he will say that it is nonsense and a case of trying to muddle through and paper over the cracks simply to make the package a little more presentable for electoral purposes . |
| 29 | The activities Kim was told to engage in were pre-selected by her mother from a range of things that Kim could do over a period of 10 minutes or so . |
| 30 | damage it must do over the country |