Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [v-ing] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Texas Instruments , Sun 's co-developer and fabricator , said that the ‘ business decision ’ to start ramping-up production of the smaller chips at the expense of fussing over the 50MHz part was made two months ago , because Sun could n't wait any longer . |
| 3 | Isabel stood pressed back against the wooden panels , trying to listen for the sound of breathing over the drumming of her heart . |
| 4 | Against that must be weighed the costs of absorbing new members into a Community already weighed down by the process of bargaining over policy among 12 member states . |
| 5 | A protocol was signed , however , preserving economic ties into the first quarter of 1992 and with the aim of guaranteeing over that period deliveries of the equivalent of 70 per cent of first quarter deliveries in 1991 . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the prominent courtier Sir John Hussey 's sycophantic resolution , moved in the midst of haggling over the subsidy bill , burdened landed estates of £50 with an additional shilling in the pound , making a total of 15 per cent compared with the general 10 . |
| 7 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 8 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 9 | The Mason climbed the spokes of the cart wheel , grunted with the exertion of climbing over the rim of the stage , and rose to his feet where the golden pavilion hid him from Gabriel 's view . |
| 10 | It was , indeed , with the object of getting over that difference that the Criminal Law Revision Committee ( Cmnd. 2977 ) proposed their clause 12(1) . |
| 11 | ‘ People just like the idea of us being in love , ’ he sighed at the thought of going over ground yet again as he explained the need for him to step out of Kylie 's tiny shadow . |
| 12 | Nothing but the thought of rolling over the awful figure within . |
| 13 | The new signings also face the pressure of winning over the fans who idolised Ian Wright , now at Arsenal , and Mark Bright who moved to Sheffield Wednesday last week . |
| 14 | Devlins Paddy did nothing special in his next three races but then suddenly seemed to get the hang of chasing over the barriers . |
| 15 | ‘ Like you and Bud , ’ North wrote to Poindexter , ‘ I find the idea of bartering over the lives of these poor men repugnant . ’ |
| 16 | Since the average rate at which the foreign debt was raised was probably about 25 dinars , its dinar value in early 1988 was about 50 times as great , approximately the same as the change in the cost of living over the same period . |
| 17 | But the principal argument he produced in favour of ruling indirectly was not that Indirect Rule provided the perfect instrument of intelligent conservation , but that it created the possibility of exercising over the native a far greater degree of control than could be achieved if he were ruled directly . |
| 18 | The triumph of learning over concupiscence ! |
| 19 | However , a theory which was recognizably utilitarian in spirit might seek to give priority in some way to the prevention of suffering over that of the promotion of happiness . |
| 20 | Another way of reducing end-of-session flap is to spread the task of memorising over the whole year . |
| 21 | When these details arrived in Rome the task of going over them was assigned to a senior lawyer or papal auditor , Benedict cardinal priest of St Susanna . |