Example sentences of "was [vb pp] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six weeks after battle was joined over the proposed ‘ rectification ’ of French spelling , the resistance fighters appear to have won the day . |
| 2 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 3 | The smoke from the incinerator made Harry blink and cough , but Morpurgo , who was stooped over the very top of it , seemed unaffected and still he paid his visitor no heed . |
| 4 | Whaddon saw their acceptance into the Combination as the first tentative step towards professional League football , and work was undertaken over the next five years on building and improving basic facilities at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 5 | A cover was installed over the second seat and a new canopy and windscreen were built . |
| 6 | Expansion of the routes was expected over the next decade . |
| 7 | Urine was collected over the first 6 hours after PEG deposition . |
| 8 | By 1914 the number of Chinese boarding houses was reckoned over the previous few years to have increased by stages from 13 to 300 to 400 . |
| 9 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
| 10 | The aggregating activity of the samples was measured over the linear portion of the calibration curve obtained with 5–50 pg of synthetic platelet activating factor . |
| 11 | Aggregating activity of the samples was measured over the linear portion of the calibration curve obtained with synthetic platelet activating factor . |
| 12 | A minimum of 7 mm lead shielding was used over the central area and over the body of each animal . |
| 13 | A gold sword hilt from the temple at Mallia shows an acrobat performing a back somersault ( Figure 29 ) ; perhaps , as Professor Alexiou suggests ( undated , p. 49 ) , in reality this feat was performed over the self-same sword planted in the ground , point upwards . |
| 14 | Another orange powder was dusted over the upper part of the body . |
| 15 | The old flag was raised over the Supreme Soviet building in Riga for the first time on Feb. 27 . |
| 16 | The yellow and blue republican flag of Ukraine was raised over the Supreme Soviet building in place of the Ukrainian Soviet flag , to the delight of demonstrators outside . |
| 17 | At relaparotomy a large bile duct defect was seen , located 1.5 cm proximal to the cystic duct and a Roux-en-Y loop was anastomosed over the perforated area . |
| 18 | One child was flung over the eight foot fence and he was in and out of hospital four times . |
| 19 | While it was stretched over the whole length of imperial communications , its most dangerous possible rival was the more easily concentrated French fleet ; the prospect of a descent on the Channel ports still preoccupied the Admiralty . |
| 20 | PHILIPPE ROZIER , who has just finished a three-month ban after Oscar Minotiere was found over the permitted limit of the painkiller , butazolidine , rode the same horse to victory for France in the Euro Horse Trophy in Gothenberg yesterday , writes Alan Smith . |
| 21 | Specific cellular localisation of silver grains , indicating the presence of preproET-1 mRNA , was found over the same cells that demonstrated ET-1 immunostaining . |
| 22 | The ladder was laid over the slimy surface of the marsh to the car , and the rope tossed to the three frightened men inside . |
| 23 | In these cases a one nucleotide ‘ creep ’ of the blocked transcript was observed over the 15 min elongation time studied , as has been noted previously with other intercalators ( 11 ) . |
| 24 | Electrification was announced over the eighteen-mile stretch between Sanderstead and East Grinstead ( but excluding the Uckfield branch ) . |
| 25 | Our flight was announced over the loud speakers and we made our way through lots of small passages until we were on the plane . |
| 26 | This modified strategy was run over the same sets of mid , mixed and phonemic utterances reported in the previous section . |
| 27 | At the Olympic Games in 1908 , the marathon was run over the unusual distance of 26 miles 385 yards . |
| 28 | His scepticism appeared born out , and a shadow was cast over the final communiqué ( featuring commitments to the 1975 Helsinki Declaration , and institutionalizing annual Balkans conferences ) , by the news that Albania 's foremost writer , Ismail Kadare , had defected on Oct. 25 to France [ see this page ] . |
| 29 | Hurley handed him a Turkish passport with a West German visa and he was escorted over the green line into Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus . |
| 30 | Police were waiting on the streets and the square was turned into a dangerous , slippery ‘ ice rink ’ as water was sprayed over the hallowed ground in an effort to deter the demonstrators . |