Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started by saying that after Montaine 's death Jean-Claude had survived in the dark — a dirty , torn piece of sacking over the window and newspaper plugging the broken panes , obscuring the merest ray of sunlight . |
| 2 | Texas Instruments , Sun 's co-developer and fabricator , said that the ‘ business decision ’ to start ramping-up production of the smaller chips at the expense of fussing over the 50MHz part was made two months ago , because Sun could n't wait any longer . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the prominent courtier Sir John Hussey 's sycophantic resolution , moved in the midst of haggling over the subsidy bill , burdened landed estates of £50 with an additional shilling in the pound , making a total of 15 per cent compared with the general 10 . |
| 4 | And that 's why they 're sort of clambering over the bridge , in order to get onto the shortcut . |
| 5 | Certainly , it seems reasonable to assume that individuals whose temperamental make-up is more ‘ psychotic ’ , and who therefore have a greater predisposition to psychosis , will be in greatest danger of passing over the threshold into overt illness , just as those of anxious temperament are more likely to develop an anxiety neurosis , and persons whose blood pressure is more labile will carry an enhanced risk of heart attack or stroke . |
| 6 | Isabel stood pressed back against the wooden panels , trying to listen for the sound of breathing over the drumming of her heart . |
| 7 | As for the militias , however zealous and heroic , they had no chance of triumphing over the Nationalist armies . |
| 8 | He saw that he had no chance of winning over the militants , and so abandoned the conventional view that a political settlement was essential . |
| 9 | Warburg , whose scholarly tradition was transferred to London in 1933 when the entire library was moved there , has provided a link between London and Hamburg which shows every sign of strengthening over the coming years . |
| 10 | The Mason climbed the spokes of the cart wheel , grunted with the exertion of climbing over the rim of the stage , and rose to his feet where the golden pavilion hid him from Gabriel 's view . |
| 11 | He or she will receive a flow of income over the year and will engage in a flow of spending over the same period . |
| 12 | ‘ My style of playing over the top of the neck was just an accident . |
| 13 | Nothing but the thought of rolling over the awful figure within . |
| 14 | Devlins Paddy did nothing special in his next three races but then suddenly seemed to get the hang of chasing over the barriers . |
| 15 | There are currently 1.7 million people in the UK who have a TV but not a licence , and most will be doing a lot of viewing over the next couple of weeks . |
| 16 | The purpose of the research is to examine the factors which have influenced the rapid growth of subcontracting over the past decade in certain sectors . |
| 17 | The new signings also face the pressure of winning over the fans who idolised Ian Wright , now at Arsenal , and Mark Bright who moved to Sheffield Wednesday last week . |
| 18 | Between them , the Waleses have established a way of operating over the last ten years that is unmistakably their own ; and quite unlike any other branch of the Royal Family . |
| 19 | But the principal argument he produced in favour of ruling indirectly was not that Indirect Rule provided the perfect instrument of intelligent conservation , but that it created the possibility of exercising over the native a far greater degree of control than could be achieved if he were ruled directly . |
| 20 | Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period . |
| 21 | ‘ Like you and Bud , ’ North wrote to Poindexter , ‘ I find the idea of bartering over the lives of these poor men repugnant . ’ |
| 22 | Another way of reducing end-of-session flap is to spread the task of memorising over the whole year . |