Example sentences of "[vb -s] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 2 | Here the Tarangire Lodge looks over the flamingo-edged waters of the Tarangire River and boasts walk-in tents , proper beds and mosquito-netted windows . |
| 3 | Nowhere is this more impressive than on the Dean Bridge at sunset , when one looks over the deep valley of the Water of Leith and sees the glistening windows of Moray Place and Ainslie Place . |
| 4 | One wall of windows looks over the rusted iron fence of an empty lot , the other on the junk stalls of Finsbury 's Exmouth Market , with their cracked plimsolls and burned-out kettles . |
| 5 | These wagons had a different coupling system over in the island ; the sound of I O M shunting is quite different from mainland shunting , you do n't get the clunk of the links on a loose-coupled wagon but a delayed clank as the ‘ chopper ’ of one drops over the buffing plate of another . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most potent advantage for adult education is that it sees itself catering for developing learning needs over the whole adult age range . |
| 7 | Despite a worldwide decline in average sperm counts over the past 50 years , those of Finnish men remain roughly twice those of men in other countries , according to Finnish research . |
| 8 | The placidity of a late August day lingers over the Swiss Alps . |
| 9 | In a country where teenage rape and murder are on the increase , do we really need this salaciousness and is it responsible to show a programme which lingers over the grisly reminiscences of a psychotic serial murderer ? |
| 10 | It is another reminder of the sporting prowess of the man , who as Cabinet Secretary could prove a key player in the political drama which unfolds over the next few days . |
| 11 | A headstone of Thatcherite granite stands over the ministerial grave of that consensual Tory , Francis Pym — in real life , still happily with us in the House of Lords . |
| 12 | From here the path descends to the top of Summerhouse Crag which stands over the Llugwy Gorge . |
| 13 | At the heart of the development a new glazed roof stands over the two-level shopping area . |
| 14 | She likes to cover up the truth like she covers over the naked light . |
| 15 | Dennis presides over the walled garden , which supplies the kitchens at Highgrove and Kensington Palace and grows all the weird and wonderful varieties that the Prince acquires and delights in surprising his guests with . |
| 16 | As Grand Master , the Duke of Kent presides over the largest secret society in England and Wales with an estimated 600,000 , all male , members . |
| 17 | If , in a sense , the Great Mother presides over the physical act of childbirth , then it is wise to submit to her demands during pregnancy , birth and the infancy of the child . |
| 18 | Reassurance is another matter , except at the level where all great art reassures ; for a spirit of slippage presides over The Possessed . |
| 19 | In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back . |
| 20 | A similar area rich in both environmental and archaeological heritage lies over the Guatemalan frontier . |
| 21 | Yet such a view is contrary to the spirit of much of the rest of this work , where we emphasize the limited control that the government has over the private sector . |
| 22 | FKB , the UK 's largest independent sales promotion company , has over the past 15 months made half a dozen US acquisitions . |
| 23 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 24 | DG has over the last three to four years put a good deal of energy into reducing that cost base , but now , even with a quarterly breakeven level reduced to $270m from $350m , the company is struggling to make ends meet . |
| 25 | The third category of incisor digestion is one in which extensive enamel digestion occurs over the whole incisor ( Fig. 3.22 J-K , and Fig. 3.23 H-I ) . |
| 26 | The draft budget for fiscal 1991/92 , approved by the government on March 4 , 1991 , showed a 29.3 per cent rise in income plans and a 3.4 per cent rise in expenditure plans over the previous year . |
| 27 | The distribution of a component between the two phases is given by the partition coefficient D ( see also previous section ) A component of a mixture with a high value for D remains largely dissolved in the mobile phase and thus passes over the stationary phase rapidly . |
| 28 | And it 's a huge great big muscle but it can get a little bit er inflamed , as it passes over the front edge of the kneecap there . |
| 29 | But by focusing on the way party leaderships and their organisational structures block the road to realignment on the left , Hall passes over the fundamental weakness of radical culture in British civil society . |
| 30 | Aronson sees Sartre 's turn to the cause of resisting colonial oppression as an act of ‘ self-flagellation ’ and a product of politico-theoretical despair , but this passes over the historical and political context in which Sartre , and Les Temps modernes , played a leading role in the opposition to the Algerian war . |