Example sentences of "the over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British troops in Greece , also in nearby Crete , were driven out , and other setbacks were experienced in the Western Desert of Egypt , mainly due to the over long supply lines . |
| 2 | What happened in the over heated ( property ) market of the 1980's was this : |
| 3 | Other exceptional works are the head of ‘ Helen ’ from the private collection in Palazzo Albrizzi , Venice and the over life-size ‘ Boxers ’ from the Vatican . |
| 4 | Mackennal 's ‘ Circe ’ ( 1893 ) here on view in its reduced form as the over life-size bronze is in the National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne , is a far more active and dangerous image . |
| 5 | Equally , individual officers had over reacted to the disturbances with the over zealous use of dogs , truncheons and a number of unlawful weapons . |
| 6 | The over zealous activities of a few PR advisers who succumb to this should not be allowed to damn the profession as a whole , he said . |
| 7 | But , for the over extended borrowers , the chickens have come home to roost . |
| 8 | But , for the over extended borrowers , the chickens have come home to roost . |
| 9 | ‘ Having acquired the means of gratification , such persons must explore the dimensions of pleasure in search of modes of gratification ; given the over determined character of their pursuit of the unreachable , their quest for new experiences begins to consume them . |