Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two strips of waste wood were slowly fed over the revolving cutter and cramped to the table . |
| 2 | The royal arms , which symbolized the supremacy of the crown over the church , were generally placed over the tympanum where the rood had previously stood . |
| 3 | The old bricks were still scattered over the foreshore . |
| 4 | Early in 1953 Britain and Egypt were still deadlocked over the future of the Suez base , while no settlement seemed in prospect to the dispute with Iran over the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company . |
| 5 | Francis Pym 's dismissal from the office of Foreign Secretary was widely reported in advance during the 1983 general election ; the dismissals of Patrick Jenkin at Environment and Peter Rees at the Treasury in September 1985 were extensively trailed over the summer ; the same was true of Mr Biffen 's dismissal in June 1987 . |
| 6 | The BAF secretary , David Bedford , and treasurer John Lister — both seeking re-election — were also rapped over the knuckles for their part in a vote of no confidence delivered against Jones . |
| 7 | So will Nabisco pay the cost of therapy for those who were psychologically unhinged over the cornflakes ? |
| 8 | Almost 900 single GKM giants/supergiants in the Bright Star Catalogue were not detected in the X-ray survey ; these were well distributed over the H-R diagram ( Fig. 1 , top panel ) . |
| 9 | But opinions were equally divided over the Government 's recent record . |
| 10 | All the agencies they contacted , despite being willing to help , all reported that their staff were fully booked over the holiday . |
| 11 | While Nestorians went their own way , the orthodox were again split over the manner in which divine and human natures were united in the person of Christ . |
| 12 | Cooper kept constant his production of cows and sheep in pasture during the length of his very lengthy career and , in spite of such a very narrow register for the subject of his painting , his works were steadily collected over the years . |