Example sentences of "over a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first game with legs still weary , was won 31–14 over a young and energetic Newfoundland XV . |
| 2 | Over a hasty but adequate meal , the situation and plans were discussed , Black Agnes approving heartily , almost gleefully , indeed going so far as to add an improvement of her own . |
| 3 | They 're one point eight G L Estate F reg , four thousand , two hundred , that 's A B C D E , five year 's difference , done four thousand , two hundred , two , eight hundred quid , well actually it 's , our cars worth over a grand if I 'd sprayed it up and put it on the market |
| 4 | The BMC 's ability to negotiate access agreements for the whole climbing community and to enforce their controversial bolting policy has been thrown into stark relief over a small and obscure gritstone crag in the Derbyshire Peak . |
| 5 | If there is any instant antidote to stress , strain and long-distance flights , this is it : to drift like a long-winged bird over a strange and beautiful planet . |
| 6 | The access to a site or any part of the site may be over a private or unadopted road . |
| 7 | I am shown over a large and productive school garden in Lesotho by the teachers and pupils who created it . |
| 8 | Sometimes the inlet pipe can be eased over a little and the overflow trimmed to suit . |
| 9 | At the time , it seemed that nothing could break Ceauşescu 's hold over a servile and cowardly Party élite . |
| 10 | The first Targa Florio was held on 6 May 1906 and that race , like all subsequent ones , was over a difficult and testing winding Sicilian course which varied over the years . |
| 11 | Even as I was recording my triumphs over a hostile and alien world , I was also expressing such sentiments as , ‘ Oh , it 's not even worth writing down — the same , usual , dismal , tedious , boring story . ’ |
| 12 | Beer had been thrown over a local and Slatter was obviously to blame . |