Example sentences of "of the [noun] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Moderator laid on the table a letter dated 4th July which he had received from Mr Sutherland and which having , been read was by unanimous order of the Session thrown over the table . |
| 2 | They may have been killed by the giants ; they may have starved to death ; all the men of the Armada remembered were the pitiful wails of the pair echoing over the still waters as the ships sailed back into the open sea , and south . |
| 3 | A vent pipe must be fitted to the top of the cylinder to terminate over the cold water cistern and the hot water draw-off is taken from this above the level of the top of the cylinder . |
| 4 | Erm the actual percentage of the ingredients used over the first year erm is about five percent for water , twenty three point six percent for the bottle , I 'll explain that later that 's quite high , the cap is four percent , one percent for the gassing , erm one percent for the case , two point seven percent for labour , four percent for transport , a general overhead would be about seventeen point one percent . |
| 5 | This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today . |
| 6 | One of the Hunters looked over the android 's body ; its demonic face staring down at the android 's features . |
| 7 | Overall confidence is down because of the gloom hanging over the banking sector . |
| 8 | Headache from the back of the head going over the forehead worse ( < ) night , noise , cold air , better ( > ) heat and pressure . |
| 9 | But I discard that idea , for the water is too shallow over the sand and once a fish is hooked the fishing would be finished for a long time while the rest of the shoal got over the scare . |
| 10 | The vast curling crest of the hurricane reared over them , and its face stretched from horizon to horizon . |
| 11 | Professor Lacey said yesterday : ‘ I have seen the membership of the committee refined over the years to suit the interests of the large food and pharmaceutical companies . |
| 12 | A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her . |
| 13 | Judges are frequently called upon by the government of the day to preside over commissions , committees and administrative tribunals of different kinds . |
| 14 | While I would not seek to question the decision of the judges of a number of the awards ( although you may note for the record , however , that there were a lot of eyebrows raised in the trade by the comments on and judging of Helpware magazine , which won both contract title of the year and runner-up to best consumer launch of the year in the 1992 Publishing Awards ) , I would like to question the appropriateness of the chairman of the judges presiding over a ceremony where his own company won the most number of awards . |
| 15 | THE young man filmed in the early hours of yesterday delightedly taking a pick-axe to the top of the Berlin Wall was a potent symbol of the destruction of 28 years of affront to freedom and of the potential dismantling of the system presided over until only a few weeks ago by its architect , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 16 | More top brass ? ’ he inquired of the policeman standing over us as he wrote down our names and addresses . |
| 17 | The theme of many of the leaflets plastered over church walls is the same : ‘ The police state methods must change . ’ |
| 18 | to the measurements taken plus 3cm ( 1 ¼in ) for top and bottom turnings ( plus a further 7.5cm ( 3in ) to enable the top of the blind to lie over the heading batten if fitting outside the window reveal ) . |
| 19 | Later in the day , following a meeting in Dartford , Kent , with Tory MPs and members of the public protesting over the route of the planned Channel tunnel high-speed rail link , Mr Parkinson reiterated his faith in a private sector solution to the funding crisis . |
| 20 | If you actually look at what we 've paid for some of the players say over the last two or three years , I guess you 're looking at about three hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 21 | He could , Dalgliesh thought , have been judged an outstandingly handsome man were it not for a certain incongruity of feature , perhaps the contrast between the fineness of the skin stretched over the flat cheekbones and the strong jutting jaw and uncompromising mouth . |
| 22 | His cheek-bones were prominent and the paleness of the skin stretched over them was accentuated by the darkness which ran like a stain round his eyes . |
| 23 | ESP 's and Martin 's method gives you a greater length of fret to play over , and lessens the chances of the strings falling over the edges when using the kind of vib that Kirk sometimes does . |
| 24 | Some of the coins found over the past month . |
| 25 | The external heel counter and harder section of the midsole on the medial side of the shoes inhibits over pronation . |
| 26 | The end of the bar drops over the pivot , and the cutting tool is advanced as the sphere is shaped . |
| 27 | Athelstan swung his cloak around him , picked up his writing tray and examined the beautiful embroidery of the dorsar draped over the back of one of the chairs . |
| 28 | The peaks surrounding glacier-dominated Saas Fee may be less distinguished , but the ice-falls of the Feegletscher hanging over the village are in their way just as striking . |
| 29 | The social tensions evidenced in many of these letters found an echo in some of the music played over the radio . |
| 30 | And if you 've ever been there and taken the trip on the little boat which takes you right in to the base of the falls themselves , you 'll have seen that there 's a hydro electric station which takes power from the water at night , when some of the force is diverted , and instead of the water going over the falls it goes through the hydro electric station . |