Example sentences of "over for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1918 Sanders thought he had a chance to become Chief Secretary for Ireland , but was soon reduced to considering himself as a possible Speaker ; in 1921 he was passed over for Chief Whip because it did not suit the coalition to have such a partisan in so sensitive a post . |
| 2 | Andrew Thomas , who has now replaced Phllips as Neath 's first-choice hooker , supplemented his work in the tight by galloping over for two tries . |
| 3 | All the defendants were bound over for two years on a personal bail of £350 and some were also fined . |
| 4 | O'Doherty , who had not taken part in the obstruction , was fined £5 for allegedly leading the singing of ‘ We shall overcome ’ ( a charge he denied ) , and the others were bound over for two years on £50 personal bail . |
| 5 | Kenneth Shoane , 66 , was bound over for two years by Maidstone Crown Court in Kent yesterday for making threats to kill Kate Kray , 35 . |
| 6 | " He was bound over for two years in Leeds , but that ended last month . " |
| 7 | Election ‘ 92 : The agonising is over for floating voters |
| 8 | 4 Cover with foil and cook in a pre-heated over for 10 min . |
| 9 | One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow . |
| 10 | It was submitted A that the judge in taking a multiplier of seven to compensate the ten point four years loss , was taking a figure that was too low and B , that in applying a substantial discount for other imponderables he was discounting twice over for early death . |
| 11 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 12 | Among the weird and wacky weather facts he has accumulated over the years : IN the severe winter of 1814 the Thames froze over for nine weeks . |
| 13 | But in the artificial , unrelenting competitive world of perpetual travel and token nods across the net , there is n't too much time — or inclination — left over for real friendship . |
| 14 | But in the artificial , unrelenting competitive world of perpetual travel and token nods across the net , there is n't too much time — or inclination — left over for real friendship . |
| 15 | Later on , they encouraged the beat man to take over for five minutes — for a man to go and stretch his legs . |
| 16 | The Manchester City of Brian Kidd and Mike Channon took over for five weeks until Clough climbed back and proved unshiftable . |
| 17 | Silvex Modes , do pop in , ladies , convenient hours to suit you and the kiddies , and we 'll lovingly screw you over for fifty pence an hour . |
| 18 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 19 | A council spokesman said : ‘ All employees are issued with identity cards which they are always happy to hand over for close inspection . |
| 20 | Recent research ( by Don Walz in the U.S.A. ) shows that the black pigmentation uses so much protein that there may be insufficient left over for normal growth and health . |
| 21 | Now that the registration period is over for Interim Development Orders , I presume you have moved into the phase of validating the claims . |
| 22 | Then you turned them over for twelve hours to the right , and twelve hours to the left , and up they go ! |
| 23 | So they were joining them , they came over The Texas sister came over for twelve months and they must have persuaded them to go back or something . |
| 24 | All of these were admitted to the smallpox hospital , which was , however , later demolished , when the ground was built over for industrial purposes . |
| 25 | Other large proportions go to space and civil aviation , leaving little left over for industrial R&D . |
| 26 | The price is so basic that , if the parties have expressly left it over for later agreement , the court may well conclude that the parties did not intend to make and have not made , a contract . |
| 27 | However , the contract expressly left them over for later agreement . |
| 28 | If , however , a relatively minor matter is left over for later agreement it does not necessarily follow that there is no contract . |
| 29 | Time and again we have seen large country houses taken over for institutional use , whether as corporate headquarters or hospitals . |
| 30 | Instead , they were taken over for institutional use , sometimes in a public-spirited move to give them a new lease of life , sometimes for exploitation as large areas of relatively cheap floor space . |