Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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1 | Applying his make-up was the hardest thing she 'd ever done , her hands shaking as she smoothed a base coat over his skin . |
2 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
3 | Repeat these rows to form a cable cross over every ten rows . |
4 | Now it 's really gone a bit bit over the top I think . |
5 | It paid the RTC $41m last year over its work on the Lincoln S&L and faced a $560m claim over Arthur Young 's work on the Western Savings Association of Texas . |
6 | So it is likely to use the right of return as a bargaining chip over territorial concessions , unless it believes it is strong enough to obtain both territory and a return . |
7 | Although individual students may seek to press the system to its limits , whether in securing credit for prior learning in the admissions process , or in pursuing a formal appeal against a felt injustice over assessment , or in taking advantage of such open learning arrangements as are available , the student body as a whole seems depressingly unconcerned about its academic rights . |
8 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |
9 | By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 . |
10 | For any Whites who harbour a sentiment for the famed Seadogs of Scarborough , chairman Geoffrey Richmond has resigned after a boardroom row over admission prices . |
11 | Now you do n't have to rely on this , because you can ring through to head office in the evening , or you can ring through your branch while that 's open , and get a computer quote over the phone , but actually find it quite useful if somebody asks me to be able to give them an idea of how much it 's going to cost them . |
12 | This could be a one-off , or spot , order , or a contract order over a period of time . |
13 | Use a fat blusher brush to sweep a pinky blusher over cheekbones and to dust lightly over chin , browbone and perhaps temples . |
14 | The Kewishs were on a rail tour over several routes not usually used by passenger trains . |
15 | Congress approved legislation on June 25 to force an immediate end to a rail strike over pay and conditions which had begun on June 24 , and which had severely disrupted freight and passenger services . |
16 | A COUNCIL has admitted it blundered by sending a former employee a letter claiming magistrates had granted it a liability order over alleged non-payment of poll tax . |
17 | You , you have a look Sheila over next door . |
18 | Figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service ( PHLS ) revealed 7,848 confirmed cases of salmonella during the first six months of this year , a 17% decrease over the same period last year . |
19 | With the expansion of trade and industry in the twelfth century — perhaps the most prolific of all centuries for new towns until we come to the nineteenth — a few traders assembled periodically near a crossing place over the river Welland . |
20 | Instead , distract your child 's attention from the buckles by fitting a play tray over the top . |
21 | Mrs Cochrane 's husband added : ‘ My wife had a depressive illness over a long period . |
22 | Steam in a vegetable steamer over boiling water for 5 minutes . |
23 | By lining a perforated box with filter matting , covering with a layer of gravel , and filling with planting media and bog plants it 's possible to set up a vegetable filter over the back of a tank . |
24 | I had arranged to meet Howard Imber , the writer , for a script conference over dinner at 8 , and fell on to the bed intending to rest for ten minutes before reading through the thick camera script . |
25 | TROUBLED Barnet were yesterday threatened with a winding-up order over an unpaid £15,000 bill for replica kit . |
26 | Although warning signs shout at you not to cross these fragile constructions , as you 're bound to fall off and die and do n't say they did n't tell you so , you 'd have to be a boring old git not to want to do a balancing act over them for thrills . |
27 | The overall winning team was the Manchester firm Ove Arup and Partners who narrowly edged out the Sir Robert McAlpine squad on a card play-off over the last six holes . |
28 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
29 | On the benchmarks themselves , Pentium outstrips IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc 's fastest processors on integer performance , and is closing the gap with the RISC chips on floating point , although all are still comfortably ahead of the Intel processor with the exception of SuperSparc , which has only a 10% advantage over Pentium . |
30 | On the benchmarks themselves , Pentium outstrips IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc 's fastest processors on integer performance , and is closing the gap with the RISC chips on floating point , although all are still comfortably ahead of the Intel processor with the exception of SuperSparc , which has only a 10% advantage over Pentium . |