Example sentences of "over [Wh det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September the DPP decided not to bring corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail after four people died in October 1987 when a river bridge at Glanrhyd , Dyfed , Wales , over which a train was travelling despite a red flood alert , collapsed . |
| 2 | The short day was darkening ; the back door swung in heavily under a Gothic porch over which a rose , now leafless , was trained . |
| 3 | ‘ The handles are muddy , but they havena' broken it , and — ’ She broke off and looked sharply across the quarry , over which a faint shout had come . |
| 4 | Several were in groups of four , three standing slabs of stone over which a fourth lay as a roof , others lay tumbled in meaningless heaps , but still others seemed to be set in distinguishable lines and circles . |
| 5 | Loss of the loved one can raise the same intensity of emotion : a sense of betrayal , hatred of the betrayer , extreme jealousy of a rival-feelings over which a person may believe they have little or no control . |
| 6 | The car 's number in gold shaded black and a maker 's transfer appeared in the left hand upper panel of the bulkhead balanced by a glass bullseye in the right hand one , over which a red slide could be moved to act as a tail lamp . |
| 7 | Yesterday I made another , of a peasant boy lighting a fire early in the morning on the hearth over which a kettle is hanging ; and another , of an old man putting kindling wood on the hearth . |
| 8 | A road is described in the Road Traffic Act 1972 as any highway and any other road to which the public has access , including bridges over which a road passes . |
| 9 | Road is defined as any highway and any other road to which the public has access and includes bridges over which a road passes . |
| 10 | ’ Road is defined as ‘ any highway or any other road to which the public has access and includes bridges over which a road passes ’ . |
| 11 | Classical conditioning deals with reflex behaviour over which a person has little control . |
| 12 | Mud and other solid matter taken from the beds of watercourses or from the ground over which a discharge has been made in the past may also be collected for analysis . |
| 13 | A beautiful place over which a feminine angel presided , soothing the weary brows of males tossed in the storms of the big bad world . |
| 14 | It is also the item of expenditure over which a mother is most likely to exert control . |
| 15 | To ensure effective control , the number of subordinates and tasks over which a manager has supervisory responsibilities should therefore be restricted to what is physically and mentally possible . |
| 16 | The maximum number of years over which a mortgage can be taken . |
| 17 | The total length of time over which a product may decline depends on a variety of factors , such as its relevance to basic needs , its adaptability in the light of economic trends and whether it is the focus of short-term fads or of longer-lasting fashions . |
| 18 | despite no implied obligation on a landlord to maintain land over which a right of way had been given to a third party there was an obligation in the case where use of property would be impossible in the absence or without that obligation . |
| 19 | AGREEMENT REGARDING NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST ON MORTGAGED PROPERTIES ( OR PROPERTIES IN SCOTLAND OVER WHICH A HERITABLE SECURITY HAS BEEN GRANTED ) |
| 20 | properties in Scotland over which a Heritable Security has been granted . |
| 21 | There would be a gap of anything from six months to a number of years over which a veil was drawn . |
| 22 | the maximum value of shares over which a person may be granted options under the Executive Scheme ; |
| 23 | Zen stood there in the elegant and spacious sitting room , listening to the insistent voices of the glass and steel coffee table supporting a spray of glossy magazines , the pouchy leather furniture over which a huge lamp on a curved stainless-steel pole craned like a vulture , the silver plates and the crystal bowls , the discreetly modern canvases , the shelves lined with works of literature , the expensive antiques , the handwoven rugs on the gleaming parquet floor , the baby grand piano with a Mozart sonata Iying open on the stand , the fireplace piled high with logs . |
| 24 | He walked towards the entrance ; a fancy airlock system over which a large illuminated sign flashed on and off . |
| 25 | Clearly , the range of frequencies over which a potential divider constructed solely from resistors acts as a satisfactory attenuator is restricted . |
| 26 | Here again there is negligible waste of power , but unfortunately the range of frequencies over which a transformer will act as a potential or current divider is restricted by the behaviour of the core , there being both a lower and upper limit . |
| 27 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |
| 28 | Joyce used to take Luke , but people kept stopping her to admire him and generally go gooey over what a beautiful specimen he was — or should I say ‘ is ’ . |
| 29 | Seldom has the conflict over what a river means to different people been more dramatically highlighted than in the case of the river Stour at Flatford Mill . |
| 30 | E. M. WELLINGS objects to the inconsistencies over what a bowler may or may not do to the ball |