Example sentences of "as over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover — and more to the point — if as literary intellectuals we feel frustrated at having no channel of access to the figures who exercise decision-making power in our societies , Mrs Lowndes shows us a society in which literary intelligence had direct access to such centres of power , by way of the conjugal bed as well as over the dinner table . |
| 2 | He was prepared to buy off political pressure , as over workplace nurseries , in a way Mr Lawson would surely have disdained . |
| 3 | Methodists ' main concern was not so much the debate over collectivism v. individualism as over reunion of the various Methodist divisions . |
| 4 | The colour is black with well-defined markings of a rich , red-brown colour on the cheeks , muzzle , chest and legs , as well as over the eyes and under the tail . |
| 5 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 6 | When someone talks to us , we receive as much as over two-thirds of the information through tone of voice and body language . |
| 7 | At the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Norman Anonymous ( formerly known as the Anonymous of York ) wrote that ‘ the king reigns with Christ ’ , reflecting the common doctrine of the tenth and early eleventh centuries that the king was Christ 's vicar , that he was rex et sacerdos , that although he could not administer the sacraments , he ruled over the Church as well as over his temporal kingdom , that all authority was vested in him . |
| 8 | It was just as well I did request an s.a.e. as over the next ten days I received over five hundred requests ! |
| 9 | I was pleased that he was more diplomatic afterwards instead of being as over the top as ever . |
| 10 | As well as over a bath , a shower can be fitted into a purpose-made cubicle ( which sometimes comes with the shower valve already fitted ) , or into a combination of side screens , shower doors and partition walls . |
| 11 | Both the Emperor Marcian and his wife Pulcheria played an active part in the meetings : Marcian and Leo found themselves at loggerheads not so much over the dogmatic formulation as over the disciplinary canons that were appended . |
| 12 | It also said it will market versions of Visualisation Data Explorer software for Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Silicon Graphics Inc workstations as well as for the RS/6000 , and will run stand-alone on the alien workstations as well as over a network accessing the server . |
| 13 | Julie Burchill turns to thriller writing with No Exit ( Mandarin ) ; I am told the sex is there but nowhere near as over the top as in Ambition , but I have n't read it . |
| 14 | An innkeeper , as we have seen , is under a duty to provide reasonable refreshment if so required and accommodation to a traveller ; hence , the innkeeper has a right of lien over a traveller 's property as well as over a guests ' to ensure that the traveller 's bill is duly paid . |
| 15 | On the other hand , damages are not a discretionary remedy and so the courts do not have as much control over the award of this remedy as over the judicial review remedies . |
| 16 | It was equally a battle over the new technology , as well as over the future of book printing in Edinburgh . |
| 17 | He knows that a profitable deal can just as easily be struck over a caesar salad and glass of mineral water as over a T-bone steak and bottle of vintage claret . |
| 18 | Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli . |
| 19 | Russian-Teleut clashes also occurred over trapping rights as well as over yasak payment from subject peoples . |
| 20 | Jadeite objects have been recovered over a territory extending from Brittany to the Rhineland as well as over the British Isles as far north as north-east Scotland , far beyond the known sources of the raw material in Piedmont and Switzerland . |
| 21 | There has been some of the same controversy over the role of the mental handicap hospitals as over the psychiatric hospitals , but on the whole the issue is clearer : they ought to be replaced by smaller units , ranging from hostels and homes to specialist hospital units able to provide intensive nursing for the severely handicapped minority . |
| 22 | Thatcher 's legacy has forced the poverty lobby onto the defensive as it fights to simply to maintain child benefit , to restore benefits to 16- and 17-year olds , or to ensure that 18- to 24-year-olds receive the same rate of income support as over 25-year-olds . |
| 23 | He thought : I believe that this is how I shall remember her when it is over , as over it will surely be sooner or later . |
| 24 | There is wide agreement that the recent forest damage can predominantly be ascribed to atmospheric pollution even if there remains uncertainty concerning which pollutants are to blame at which locations and what the response mechanisms are for triggering damage , as well as over how the contributing natural stress factors should be weighted ( Hinrichsen , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | What she did like was a roundabout where you went up and down gradually as over waves , in a car that swung slightly but did n't turn . |
| 26 | The structure of this is interesting as over the last few years most software house have added default actions , verbs or options to their interface — Sierra have almost taken the opposite course by simplifying their system which now has a basic choice of some half a dozen actions . |
| 27 | The four countries would co-ordinate policies on agriculture , industry and transport , as well as over financial and monetary issues . |
| 28 | Their commitment to the nationalisation programme of Let us Face the Future was fully demonstrated when they revealed their opposition to any attempts to ‘ water down ’ the principle of public ownership , as over civil aviation in 1945–46 and over iron and steel in 1947 . |
| 29 | Bored stiff can be as stressed as over worked ones . |
| 30 | Some of these groups envisaged the return of General de Gaulle in the wake of the insurrection , though many did not ( the pieds noirs had generally been Pétainist during the war and many officers either viewed de Gaulle as over the hill or still resented his indiscipline in 1940 ) . |