Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Posi 's cheerful voice , clear and over the mini-comm in the pendant .
2 You know , it 's funny but over the years I can always remember you saying : me , my , mine .
3 German influence in East Prussia had been so strong that over the years the southern strip of East Prussia , which was occupied by a large number of ethnic Poles , had become increasingly Germanised .
4 The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million .
5 He told them : ‘ I was delighted and over the moon to hear that I was the father of a blue-eyed , black-haired baby girl .
6 They have to go very steady and to the right of the first , to the left of the second and over the top of the last .
7 Originally the class of persons entitled to claim was limited to the wife , husband , parent and child of the deceased but over the years the classes have been extended to enable all those classes mentioned in the 1976 Act to claim .
8 The author manages very successfully to convey all his sadness and bitterness and at the same time great strength of his departure from this world without being verbose or over the top .
9 Vessey and colleagues are unfortunate that over the period of their study the goal posts have moved significantly , with a greater use of laparoscopy as a diagnostic tool and a change in our understanding of what visually constitutes the diagnosis of endometriosis .
10 I am quite sure that over the years he saved the company substantial legal costs ! ’
11 I 'm sure that over the years , you 'll have er , gone through some of the experiences that Madeline and I have been talking about over the last five minutes .
12 Adenauer was encouraging and over the course of the summer French and German officials began consultations with officials from the other four nations .
13 In the long debates over Marconi in 1913 and over the Curragh " mutiny " in 1914 Law was able to nail Asquith 's evasions where a more polished stylist might have been foiled .
14 Also , radiation doses are cumulative 5 and over the years the International Commission on Radiation Protection ( ICRP ) has steadily lowered its maximum permissible whole-body doses recommended for occupational exposure .
15 Nowhere is this paranoia more evident than over the question of defectors .
16 Candidates under 25 are supposed to have a minimum of 5 O levels and 2 A levels ; for those aged 25 and over the university of life is enough .
17 Other modules and integrated products will roll-out on the 27th and over the course of the year .
18 The growth rate of product wages did peak in 1969 , just when accumulation was reaching its peak , and it grew a little faster ( about ½ per cent per year ) between 1968 and 1973 than over the period 1960–8 .
19 The Labour Party has remained a problem for socialists , as the experience of Labour in government after 1966 and over the period 1979 rather confirmed .
20 Other modules and integrated products will roll out on April 27 and over the course of the year .
21 Most businesses will place , or take , orders by telephone , or as a result of face to face dealing , for instance as a result of a representative 's visit or , less formally , at a trade fair or over a business lunch .
22 When I started , I was very much on my own but over the years it has really caught on in Whaddon and now membership has trebled .
23 It is true that over a decade when the senior civil service was moving from being primarily regulatory in outlook to being primarily managerial , there was a lack of research , of assessment of situations before action could be properly planned .
24 It is true that over the years a few railway signalmen have been convicted of manslaughter for wrongful acts and omissions leading to fatal train crashes , but there is not the natural resort to the criminal law which is now a feature of road-traffic cases .
25 a northwest-southeast trending belt of inversion maxima and minima displaying culminations in the southwest of Quadrant 49 , the central part of Quadrant 48 and over the Cleveland Hills High in the central and southern parts of Quadrant 41 ;
26 No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day .
27 However , the Committee did accept the relevance of resulting harm in one sphere , namely , in its proposal of a new offence of causing death by careless driving when over the alcohol limit .
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