Example sentences of "is [vb pp] over by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further evidence of Starfield 's commitment to quality is provided by the fact that every guitar which comes into the country is checked over by repairer Martyn Booth before being dispatched to the shops . |
| 2 | Note the Fab domain 1 is flipped over by some 90° with respect to CD2 domain 1 . |
| 3 | When Emma Bovary dies , her body is watched over by two people : the priest , and Homais the pharmacien . |
| 4 | On Lord Mayor 's Day , when the new Lord Mayor is elected , the staff is handed over by the father of the city council to the sheriff 's lady to keep the sheriff himself in order . |
| 5 | This sum is handed over by the long to the short in final settlement . |
| 6 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 7 | But a film like When the Devil Drives ( 1907 ) , in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky , shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination , while The Airship Destroyer ( 1909 ) , with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship , shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat . |
| 8 | 2 ( — ) BOOMERANG : Love 'em and leave 'em adman Eddie Murphy gets his come-uppance when his firm is taken over by a woman in this frivolous star vehicle . |
| 9 | 1980 : UK Decca is taken over by the growing giant that is Polygram . |
| 10 | Late 60s early 70s : FLOWER POWER : NME is taken over by the complete staff of OZ magazine . |
| 11 | It is taken over by Goblins and fortified . |
| 12 | Méliès 's first example , the girl turning into a skeleton in The Vanishing Lady ( 1896 ) , is more persuasively achieved by a dissolve in Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) when Norman Bates ( Anthony Perkins ) , locked up in jail , is taken over by his ‘ mother ’ ( that is , his fantasy of the mother he ca n't admit to having killed ) and his face turns into a skull , her skull . |
| 13 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 14 | But though the relationship , when satisfactory , is relatively straightforward and works as would be expected when any large organization is taken over by a new and competent managing director , there are other cases where problems can arise . |
| 15 | fewer jobs may be required as routine work is taken over by machines |
| 16 | In these circumstances it is not difficult to predict speedy failure , unless , as has been proposed , the line is taken over by a British firm which has secured the concession for the building of a line from Shanghai to Peking . |
| 17 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 18 | When a road is taken over by the local authority there are usually substantial charges to be paid , but often , in the case of estate roads , the developers have accepted responsibility and entered into a bond with the local authority to secure their liability . |
| 19 | Dowty is taken over by the TI Group |
| 20 | She then goes to a cat country far away which is taken over by bandits . ’ |