Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raids were followed by a military action on the ground , and neutral Cambodia was drawn into the conflict , with appalling loss of life there over the next few years . |
| 2 | And she 's dropped a tin of paint all over her trainers . |
| 3 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 4 | For ears treated surgically there was no significant advantage of adenoidectomy alone over the baseline category of tube insertion alone . |
| 5 | These source rocks are the peridotites , and since geophysics tells us that the mantle consists of the same kind of material all over the world , it 's clear that melting part of the mantle beneath Hawaii should produce the same kind of rocks as those produced by melting part of the mantle beneath Iceland . |
| 6 | To some extent , little or much , the Created God has been in course of production all over the world for all time . |
| 7 | But there is also widespread support for state or collective provision of welfare even over tax cuts . |
| 8 | In the sultry haze of late August , the only noises were the cicadas , the splash of the children in the pool and the rumble of thunder away over the Gorges du Verdon . |
| 9 | You keep meeting the same people in a sector of industry all over the world . ’ |
| 10 | the surface of light just over the border . |
| 11 | There is going to be a serious shortage of food all over the world during the next year . |
| 12 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 13 | This Easter we have seen the groundswell of demand all over the world that the arms race be brought to a standstill . |
| 14 | A The use of sand directly over a sub gravel filter is not recommended . |
| 15 | Try reducing your use of salt slowly over a period of weeks and use flavouring substitutes like herbs , spices and lemon juice . |
| 16 | Oxydol won out , and the so-called soap opera that was used to sell it gave its name to a genre , massively reinforced by its wholesale adoption by television all over the world since the 1950s . |
| 17 | Once the plants are laid in the trench , turn the next spit of earth loosely over the roots . |
| 18 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 19 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 20 | Just as the field in sunspots suppresses the flow of radiation locally , so the spread-out field inhibits the general upflow of radiation all over the sun . |
| 21 | And the worst thing you can do is to screw it all up by putting a lot of technique all over it ! ' |
| 22 | There will be a lot of cloud again over many parts of England and Wales , although it might become a little brighter at times . |
| 23 | Paul took this message about life and the mystery of humanity all over the Mediterranean world . |
| 24 | For minor members of foreign missions , of whom ambassadors ' secretaries were the most important , gold chains continued during much of the seventeenth century to be a very common form of gift all over Europe . |
| 25 | I know that there are no easy answers , but if we do not at least attempt to act decisively , Zagreb , Dubrovnik , Vukovar and Osijek could be just the first names on a ghastly roll call resembling those unending , poignant first world war memorials that are such a feature of life all over the continent of Europe . |
| 26 | He preferred painting on a closely woven canvas , and sometimes when he had finished the work he placed a sheet of paper carefully over the fresh paint to merge the colours . |
| 27 | Iran had boycotted the pilgrimage for the third consecutive year in protest both over a quota system limiting the number of pilgrims ( to an estimated 1,500,000 ) and over the Saudi ban on political protests during the pilgrimage . |
| 28 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 29 | Today they are an important source of food all over the world . |