Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the clouds came we visited Beaulieu , travelled their monorail , rode a vintage bus and drooled over the super cars in the National Motor Museum . |
| 2 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 3 | On Sept. 30 Ingegerd Troedsson ( Moderate Party ) was elected as the Speaker of the Riksdag ( Sweden 's second highest ranking official after the monarch ) , the first woman to be elected to the post , in a narrow victory over the incumbent Thage Peterson ( Social Democrat ) . |
| 4 | Clinton took a huge opinion poll lead over the incumbent President George Bush of the Republican Party . |
| 5 | Mr Clerides , 73 , standard bearer for the Greek-Cypriot conservative establishment , scored an unexpected victory over the incumbent president , George Vassiliou , in a second round runoff . |
| 6 | When a well proportioned quantity of water is passed over the unequal surface of a richly coloured rock , which thus aided , glows with borrowed brightness and augmented beauty on the delighted wanderer 's gaze , the spectacle is replete with dazzling fascination , and the mind most avaricious of enjoyment can covet no more . |
| 7 | Just before baking , brush with beaten egg and sprinkle some sesame seeds over the finished flaounes . |
| 8 | Lyddy put the final touches to her hair and slipped two ropes of pearls carefully over the finished edifice . |
| 9 | Seen in this much broader context the campaign over the peace-tax issue is obviously at most a relatively minor skirmish in a very much larger battle , one that is being fought , as is the peace-tax issue itself , on the terrain of classical political and constitutional theory — namely , the relationship between citizens and the state . |
| 10 | Another lengthy court battle would be a severe embarrassment for Mr Heseltine and prolong the Government 's agony over the mishandled pit closure programme . |
| 11 | Until 1936 , the other rural counties in the District were regarded as ‘ open territory ’ but in that year a partial relaxation over public expenditure restrictions occurred and the issues inherent in the compromise over the rural areas agreement between the Cambridge Board and the District emerged in sharply focussed ways . |
| 12 | But it was not only officers and members of the WEA and the District who were pleased with the final agreement over the rural areas scheme and the conclusion of negotiations of byzantine complexity extending over a period of four difficult years . |
| 13 | It is not , therefore , simply bloody-mindedness which will lead some farmers to resist planning controls over the rural landscape ; it will be a defence , however tenuous , of the interest of private property — and that , needless to say , is an interest which is fundamental to the fabric of contemporary English society . |
| 14 | But she got me so , over the worse part , yeah . |
| 15 | Each individual abolitionist demonstrated the victory of the better over the worse side of his or her nature , of ‘ pure power ’ over interest , but some particular individuals elicited especial admiration and reverence . |
| 16 | NT has a slight edge over the average Unix on-line documentation but falls short of the best available and the introduction of the CD-ROM is a hurdle for the desktop crowd . |
| 17 | You , of course , have many advantages over the average dieter . |
| 18 | This was the highest rating of all the publishers listed in Table 5 and represented a premium of 74% over the average market price/earnings ratio of 17.7x . |
| 19 | I passed over the paper-towel bundle . |
| 20 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 21 | Will the Minister accept that the flaw in his argument is that no figure is projected for the next financial year which will take the amount needed over the present limits agreed under the 1987 legislation ? |
| 22 | Erm , so you bring all the data down , passing over the simple formulae and then do one copy . |
| 23 | But , despite her hunger , she took as long as possible over the simple meal , desperately trying to stave off the moment when they would have nothing to do except talk or sleep . |
| 24 | Waqar has always preferred to pitch well up , even before the new bouncer restriction , giving the ball a chance to swing over the greater distance . |
| 25 | First Thurn und Taxis sale fetches £9.015 million as Bavarian State still negotiates over the greater treasures |
| 26 | These restrictions on testation had disappeared over the greater part of England early in the fourteenth century , but they survived in the province of York till 1692 , in Wales till 1696 , and in London till 1724 . |
| 27 | The most distinctive plover of the region , the commonest inland over the greater part of it , and the only Vanellus breeding over most of Europe . |
| 28 | The most widespread bee-eater of the region , and the only bird with harlequin plumage and central tail feathers slightly projecting likely to be seen over the greater part of it . |
| 29 | It is unnecessary to add much to what has been said already about the horn , except to point out that owing to its conical mouthpiece and bore it is unable to produce such a loud and brilliant tone as the trumpets and trombones , which are played with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and have a cylindrical bore over the greater part of their length . |
| 30 | They have been over the greater part of Van Diemen 's Land and the Islands in Bass 's Straits and appear highly gratified with their peregrinations : a government vessel has generally been devoted to their use . |