Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , however , his delicate tidiness is wasted-the bin is a bottomless shell and the liquid vomit showers over the wall , on to his trousers . |
| 2 | While the European Community quarrels over subsidies with America and other farm exporters in the Uruguay round of world trade talks , New Zealand 's farmers are showing that eliminating subsidies completely will not wipe out farming , but make it far more efficient instead . |
| 3 | The domed ceiling of the rotunda concourse and certain wall areas were finished in yellow and orange plaster with a trim of Red Verona , Tennessee Fleuri , and Virginia Black marbles , and the lower wall areas over the service facilities were covered with highly colored mosaic murals by the German-born artist Winold Reiss and executed by the Ravenna Mosaic Company . |
| 4 | In this sense parallels may develop between the regional negotiation processes over the Kampuchean and Afghan conflicts . |
| 5 | Bus services were excluded from the committee 's remit as , even before deregulation , buses operated in a much more competitive and diversified environment than the public sector monopolies over whose transport services TUCCs were designed to act as watchdogs . |
| 6 | Significant differences can be detected in the technological edge of the high technology industries over the medium technology industries : |
| 7 | I remembered how in England I had pitied them all tucked away in oblivion : Feathers , the first man of my course to go missing ; Johnny Soames whose aircraft I had watched skidding away from the formation on one of the early daylight raids over northern France . |
| 8 | IBM says it competed with Amdahl Corp , Unisys Corp and some of the top-end Unix vendors over the contract , which was signed last December , but won out because of its integration skills . |
| 9 | The rise of the international business schools over the last decades and the substantial increase in the numbers of Third World students in the universities and technical institutes of the First World have provided an ever-increasing pool of potential local employees for the TNCs , and recruitment is brisk . |
| 10 | These changes in the estimated offer rates over the duration are very sensitive to the assumed value for 71 In Model 1 , the offer rate falls 21% between the first three months and the rest of the spell . |
| 11 | The " Baltic path " to emancipation — the landless variant — was discredited at the very time disagreements over the way forward were at their height . |
| 12 | This gives the relational model advantages over other models , The language reflects the design of the system . |
| 13 | The preponderance of pictures means that the sparse text glosses over some points and tantalises on others . |
| 14 | The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection . |
| 15 | While she was driven over to Greenwich to interview Maggie Parkin , the superintendent sent him back to Scotland Yard to harry the forensic science laboratories over the bloodstains on the pair of scissors . |
| 16 | If the quantal size changes over time , however , the histogram peaks become smeared and the analysis can , at best , only be done for relatively brief selected periods . |
| 17 | I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos . |
| 18 | To give all subjects roughly the same earnings opportunities over the two repetitions of the experiment , we changed the parameter pairs from the first to the second repetition of follows : Each group consisted of eight subjects : so there were eight who had parameter pair A on their first repetition and parameter pair H on their second ; eight who had parameter pair B on their first repetition and parameter pair G on their second ; and so on . |
| 19 | This comes in two forms , that used here being the SADS-L , or Lifetime Version , which enables the assessment to be based , not on a single episode of illness , but on accumulated information about the person , covering the longer time periods over which our subjects could be studied . |
| 20 | Many times more people have moved out of the big state hospitals over a larger number of years and a great deal more research on outcomes has been done . |
| 21 | Finally a control component proposes the best scoring words over the utterance . |
| 22 | The intention here is not to construct a full history of the post-war period but it will be necessary to examine some of the main developments in the class/collectivity/political force relationships over the post-war years , even at a cost of some over-simplification , in order to establish a basis for the fuller discussion in the following chapter of these relationships under the Thatcher government . |
| 23 | The worrying question marks over Rose McGarry , the events of yesterday , and Emily 's obvious unhappiness had combined to close in on him ; as though the world were shrinking , poised to suffocate him . |
| 24 | This led into a technical and commercial appraisal of European competition and the anticipated market changes over the next ten years . |
| 25 | Against this background has been the fight between the Australian Rugby Football Union and the Committee of The Four Home Unions over the proposed Wallaby tour of South Africa prior to the Wallabies touring Wales and Ireland . |
| 26 | Bearing these points in mind let us look at developments in each of the main policy areas over the whole period . |
| 27 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 28 | The resulting mechanism movements over a number of sequential increments in angle are shown in Figure 7.36 . |