Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you honestly feel about ladies over the age of forty appearing nude in centrefolds such as Playboy , and if approached yourself , with the body you have today — which is marvellous — would you do it ? |
| 2 | It is clear that adult and continuing education will grow in importance over the years . |
| 3 | It is clear that adult and continuing education will grow in importance over the years . |
| 4 | Coupled with the exit of some vital players , it was as much as Neath could do to paper over the cracks and keep winning . |
| 5 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |
| 6 | Most of these cases will occur in people over the age of 60 . |
| 7 | Right , we 're gon na look at correlation over the next couple of weeks . |
| 8 | The president told aircraft workers at the company 's plant in Seattle that he believed a lot of the redundancies would not have been announced ‘ had it not been for the $26 billion that the US stood by and let Europe plough into Airbus over the last several years ’ . |
| 9 | Coal imports will double in Japan over the next twenty years or so with coal becoming second only to oil as an energy supplier , at about one-quarter of demand . |
| 10 | What is curious for the observer from the twentieth century is the debate about the possibility of secular education , something after all we now take for granted , although we do hear of debates over the teaching of ‘ creationism ’ in backwoods . |
| 11 | They are not concerned with investment potential or collectability , and the fact that items may appreciate in value over the years is a bonus , rather than the main reason for which they are bought . |
| 12 | Hemmed in by a board school , a gasworks , a depot for Bass ale , and the neighbouring St Pancras Station , King 's Cross Goods Station was proclaimed by its retired outdoor Goods Manager to be in appearance ‘ prosaic enough — you ca n't go into ecstasies over the beauty of its situation or the classic lines of its architecture ’ . |
| 13 | He would n't go into details over the phone but he said it had something to do with Bernard . |
| 14 | According to the latest projections , 100,000 Soviet Jews will arrive in Israel over the next three years , and the numbers may be even higher if and when direct flights start from Moscow to Tel Aviv , the most important tangible sign of the rapid thaw in Soviet-Israeli relations . |
| 15 | Overall , 10,000 jobs will go in Europe over the next two years . |
| 16 | But to attract the funds needed to capitalize , NoS would have to persuade a merchant bank to sponsor it , which would inevitably lead to confrontation over the Right-On organizational principles on which the project was based . |
| 17 | Sites and their related buildings may alternate in use over the years under economic pressure to give the best possible financial return , subject to planning and other restrictions . |
| 18 | I do n't entirely agree with Michael over the business of not being quite so familiar with the work when the children are at secondary school . |
| 19 | And a lot of these organisations , it 's very difficult , because there are many that a lot of people are in favour of , like , well , take King George 's Fund for Sailors and so on , but how do we know , I mean , there might be two people they might help in Oxford over the course of the year . |