Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have preferred a special health-service pay factor , but had to settle for an above-average offer to the nurses , who most certainly were the priority group , having fallen badly behind over the previous ten years . |
| 2 | The sun had come out fully over the abbey mills and the narrow bridge of Meole brook , and in the foregate there was bustle enough . |
| 3 | They have discovered that problems that they thought had to be brought in person to a bureau , can in fact be carried out successfully over the telephone . |
| 4 | It is " recursive " because the same rule ( in this case a branching rule ) is applied locally all over the growing tree . |
| 5 | You see it written down all over the place incorrectly . |
| 6 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 7 | erm the minor awards or discretionary awards as they became and that 's erm , I was given this job and er that 's how it 's built up really over the years . |
| 8 | Land , however , is a scarce resource and house prices have risen quite sharply over the past decade . |
| 9 | In addition , we had a 1989 Bottlang to give us the location of the Visual Reporting Points which are used extensively all over the Continent . |
| 10 | Yeah I know but they do n't turn up and you get all tangled up all over the place |
| 11 | It is expected to be used up gradually over the relevant period — 15 or 18 years in this case — so as to be exhausted by the end of the period . |
| 12 | Unit-linked policies by and large have performed fairly well over the last few years and have consequently been growing in popularity . |
| 13 | To call it the " Cenomanian transgression " is something of an oversimplification , for it is often Albian or Turonian in age , but a major transgression at about the beginning of late Cretaceous times seems to have occurred almost all over the world . |
| 14 | She had slept badly and the flesh seemed to be drawn too tightly over the bones of her face . |
| 15 | He 's sticking his neck out , with a prediction that the snow ploughs and gritting lorries wo n't be needed too often over the next few months . |
| 16 | I think the defence as a whole unit has played tremendously well over the hols . |
| 17 | Body hunched apparently awkwardly over the front of the machine , hunting for front tyre grip , Doohan slams the NSR on to its side so violently that he will surely crash . |
| 18 | I could n't believe it , especially when Graham Gooch had played so well over the last year . ’ |
| 19 | Instead the characters will be phased out gradually over the next six months . |
| 20 | A huge cast of characters — each of whom are given intermeshing chapters to narrate the US perspective on the mess and sacrifice of World War Two — is flung out all over the globe . |
| 21 | We also know that when a new layer arrived , it was not deposited simultaneously all over the preceding layer , it was unrolled from one side or the other , so that the actual contact was progressive rather than synchronous . |
| 22 | Figures for 1991 reveal that this sort of tradgedy is being played out all over the south of England . |
| 23 | ‘ Paul has played really well over the last few weeks and deserves his move . |
| 24 | If a block of Pycoma were lit simultaneously all over the top surface , say by a fast-running sheet-fuse , the combustion zone would travel slowly down through the block . |
| 25 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 26 | To get more foxes and to get them distributed more evenly over the country , gorse covers and spinneys were started by hunting landlords in well-chosen spots . |
| 27 | Ethno-religious conflicts have sprung up all over the world in recent years . |
| 28 | ( This independence was illustrated most vividly over the publication of a survey of spending on education . |
| 29 | ‘ Something like 90,000 acres of trees per minute are being chopped down all over the world , ’ contributed Lydia off the top of her head . |
| 30 | In the light of all that , ladies and gentlemen , the choice of a speaker for the Charles Darwin centenary was not difficult , and indeed I know that he welcomed the opportunity to give this lecture , not least I 'm sure because of the controversies and the general noise that have erupted once again over the issues of evolution , both in the academies of the civilized western world , and even in deepest Arkensaw |