Example sentences of "over [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Careful scrutiny reveals that the cross-sections of such scarps are something like that shown in Figure 7.7 ( b ) , which in turn can represent the situation shown in Figure 7.7 ( c ) in which one piece of surface is thrust over another at a low angle . |
| 2 | Like a jockey choosing one ride over another before a Grand National , Tip finished up with the winner in 1961 . |
| 3 | And , now , crumbling in decay , over laden with a desolate burden of humanity , the houses had the look of queuing for a great knacker 's yard , of eagerly embracing the extinction of their former grandeur , of offering themselves to ruin with an abandonment almost luxurious . |
| 4 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 5 | ( Sellafield is the most striking exception in the numbers of nuclear and construction workers working together on the same site over most of a 40 year period . ) |