Example sentences of "[vb infin] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When ‘ scarce anything [ was ] more likely to mar a … man 's reputation than to be thought opposed or indifferent to the cause of abolition , but when slavery was a distant and foreign institution , the urge to respectability could predominate over the vital flame in antislavery . |
| 2 | The rhetoric of equal opportunity could not finally win over the entrenched interests in a broad-meshed filter , a crude sieve for the child population . |
| 3 | For the increasingly health conscious , from weight watchers to environmentalists , Japanese food is ideal , being healthy and nutritious , and will win over the traditional health foods which have a boring and monastic image . |
| 4 | Several options exist ; the text can jump over the graphic , flow round it as a regular shape or , under user control , flow around irregular objects . |
| 5 | He says I 'm gon na fall over the blooming stuff if you keep mov it 's nice so is n't it ? |
| 6 | The comfort is that thanks to continental Europe 's recession and the Bundesbank 's slow trimming of interest rates , most European bond yields should fall over the next year , increasing the appeal of gilts . |
| 7 | One can quibble over the slow speed for the opening movement of No. 1 , which is hardly an Allegro commodo . |
| 8 | We cooked dinner , packed up things we did not need over the next two days and had a group meeting to discuss the itinerary for our journey home . |
| 9 | The manager and the members of staff sit down and they agree over the last twelve months which of these bits of training have you had either on the job or as forward training they are ticked off , what do you need over the next six months , let's make a programme . |
| 10 | Again do not round over the sharp edges when sanding . |
| 11 | According to Spill , there are a number of checkpoints that SCO must negotiate over the coming months if it is to maintain its MIPS effort — each requiring a commitment of political will , as well as cash . |
| 12 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 13 | And Mick chatting to Jenny about what we can expect over the next few weeks , as we spend a day in the life . |
| 14 | NORTH West businesses have ‘ some optimism ’ that economic conditions will improve over the next six months , according to an independent survey of more than 1,000 companies carried out before the election . |
| 15 | Kelly and Sear predict that things should actually improve over the next few months as the northern hemisphere continues to recover from the 0.5°C cooling that actually happened in June last year . |
| 16 | Both wines are currently from the 1988 vintage and will improve over the next few years . |
| 17 | And certainly , trade book publishing did not do at all badly in nineteen ninety one in a recessionary environment and erm , there are , as Frank has mentioned particularly within Penguin , quite a lot of internal restructuring has gone on and one would hope that margins would improve over the next few years as a result of that . |
| 18 | A puppy with only one sprint at Harolds Cross on her Irish card , she could improve over the coming weeks . |
| 19 | They wo n't send over the 2,000 word revelation on what really went on in the referee 's room at Lord 's , when the Texaco Trophy ball was changed , until BT fix the fault . |
| 20 | Slime algae should be removed as it may actually grow over the encrusting species which , of course , are growing directly on the substrate , to their obvious detriment . |
| 21 | The hole would appear over the next 20 years at Hemerdon , just outside Plymouth — the scene of western Europe 's biggest deposit of tungsten . |
| 22 | A NASA research team which has recently returned from the Arctic observed a similar pattern of events and is extremely concerned that a second ‘ hole ’ may appear over the Arctic . |
| 23 | Then the Lion Rampant did appear over the rising ground , perhaps three hundred yards behind those first riders , but it rose above a fairly compact party , and this was backed by a still larger body of men . |
| 24 | Almost alone among its peers , Britain will see over the next 20 years a small decline in its old-age dependency ratio ( the number of people aged over 65 as a proportion of the working population ) . |
| 25 | I fucking let milk boil over the other night and I ca n't get it off . |
| 26 | In general , it seems likely that what will emerge over the next few decades will be two parallel systems : one with large offshore windmills , wave power generators and tidal barrages providing electricity for the grid ; the other more decentralised , with solar and biomas providing heat on a small scale local basis , coupled with small windmills , water mills and turbines in rivers and streams providing electricity in certain mainly rural areas . |
| 27 | I had no idea how old and crotchety she 'd become over the last few years . ’ |
| 28 | That level of investment , currently running at £1 billion a year , will be sustained by the Government over the public expenditure planning period which runs for the next three years and , I am quite confident , will run over the next 10 years . |
| 29 | The strip of ice was not broad enough to skate on but you could run over the crackling , frosty grass and leap onto it and slide the best part of thirty yards . |
| 30 | Some optimism can be drawn from Clinton 's promise to secure a GATT agreement , but it also would be foolish to forget that the president can haggle over the complex details in the months ahead . |