Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the clouds came we visited Beaulieu , travelled their monorail , rode a vintage bus and drooled over the super cars in the National Motor Museum . |
| 2 | When a well proportioned quantity of water is passed over the unequal surface of a richly coloured rock , which thus aided , glows with borrowed brightness and augmented beauty on the delighted wanderer 's gaze , the spectacle is replete with dazzling fascination , and the mind most avaricious of enjoyment can covet no more . |
| 3 | Each individual abolitionist demonstrated the victory of the better over the worse side of his or her nature , of ‘ pure power ’ over interest , but some particular individuals elicited especial admiration and reverence . |
| 4 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 5 | These restrictions on testation had disappeared over the greater part of England early in the fourteenth century , but they survived in the province of York till 1692 , in Wales till 1696 , and in London till 1724 . |
| 6 | The most distinctive plover of the region , the commonest inland over the greater part of it , and the only Vanellus breeding over most of Europe . |
| 7 | The most widespread bee-eater of the region , and the only bird with harlequin plumage and central tail feathers slightly projecting likely to be seen over the greater part of it . |
| 8 | It is unnecessary to add much to what has been said already about the horn , except to point out that owing to its conical mouthpiece and bore it is unable to produce such a loud and brilliant tone as the trumpets and trombones , which are played with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and have a cylindrical bore over the greater part of their length . |
| 9 | They have been over the greater part of Van Diemen 's Land and the Islands in Bass 's Straits and appear highly gratified with their peregrinations : a government vessel has generally been devoted to their use . |
| 10 | Prime Minister John Compton defended Fostin by saying that he had been subjected to unjustified attacks in the press over the poor state of the country 's roads . |
| 11 | The problems arose over the two-year presidency of the Argentinian , Sarkis Kaloghlian , who was dismissed from his position in July after financial irregularities in the IJF 's Miami bank account . |
| 12 | However , the degree also has a taught component , as students must attend at least one postgraduate seminar every term over the two-year period of the degree , and are examined on their work in these courses . |
| 13 | Three of the 64 Berkshire commoners are refusing to accept a deal under which they would be paid about £750 each to forfeit rights over the built-up part of the US Air Force base and agree not to exercise them in other areas . |
| 14 | Contesting with others over the extrinsic spoils of learning is one aspect of competitive assessment . |
| 15 | There was merely conventional wisdom about such questions as principles of road design , use zoning , building heights and controls over the external appearance of buildings . |
| 16 | White patches all over the bloody coat with that soap powder . |
| 17 | It should be out of hand and all over the bloody media by now . |
| 18 | Cohn ( 1971 ) presented evidence that summated auditory evoked potentials show a greater amplitude of initial output over the right hemisphere with click stimuli but higher amplitude over the left hemisphere when subjects listen to monosyllabic words . |
| 19 | Butler and Glass found the CNV to be of greater amplitude over the left hemisphere in all of twelve right handed subjects and greater over the right hemisphere in a single left hander . |
| 20 | The CNV following the warning stimulus was found to be of greater magnitude over the left hemisphere in the verbal condition and greater over the right hemisphere in the picture condition . |
| 21 | Those that do may only display the differences for a matter of weeks or even days before the whole crop ripens , so there is an element of luck in flying over the right place at the right time . |
| 22 | Judicial dispute continued over the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that defined the constitutionality of abortion . |
| 23 | ‘ Not much longer , ’ he promised , and threw the loose end of the wire over the lowest part of the ironwork . |
| 24 | That 's what the American artist Kosuth maintains happened over the striking resemblance between his installation presented at this year 's Documenta in Kassel ( closed 29 September ) , and the installation created by Claudio Parmiggiani three years ago in Milan . |
| 25 | Table 2.2 demonstrates changes over the seventeen years to 1987 : western Europe took over half our exports for the first time in recent history ; by 1987 , the EC alone took virtually half , and most other destinations , except for North America , had declined in relative importance . |
| 26 | The Comintern worked predictably but with difficulty to establish control over the recalcitrant comrades in both factions but was faced with firm opposition from those who did not wish to see Korean communism become a minor branch of the world communist movement directed by Moscow . |
| 27 | On May 8 Sami Abdul-Rahman , a member of the delegation [ see p. 38127 ] , said that " the talks [ were ] going on in a positive spirit " , although questions relating to international guarantees for an accord and Kurdish control over the oil-producing town of Kirkuk remained unresolved . |
| 28 | Following the Communist victory over the pro-American regime in 1975 , Phat was named president of the short-lived Republic of South Vietnam . |
| 29 | At RAF Lyneham 500 men are sweating over the vast amounts of equipment the individual soldier attaches to his body prior to jumping into a theatre of war . |
| 30 | The Soviet Union has little or no influence , let alone control , over the vast majority of them . |