Example sentences of "over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was stirring milk into the roux over a low heat when Annie finished her currants and announced , ‘ Wanta-wee , wanta-wee . ’ |
| 32 | heat this mixture over a low flame until it melts , stirring well . |
| 33 | For example , Richards has used the methods of Cragg and Malkiel to show that over a 1-year time horizon professional analysts perform ‘ reasonably well ’ . |
| 34 | Over a three-month period , opera attracted 1 per cent of the population but ballet and contemporary dance fewer than 1 per cent . |
| 35 | Typically , individual therapy involves 12–20 sessions of 45–60 minutes over a three-month period . |
| 36 | By adding these potatoes , a bulky food of reasonably high-fibre content , they actually lost some weight over a three-month period ! |
| 37 | Start by making a list of the areas in which you think you might be able to generate coverage over a three-month period . |
| 38 | In the dream , but not in memory , a mist rose a few feet above the surface of the water like a veil over a familiar face . |
| 39 | This can happen while driving a car over a familiar route , and it can happen while reading predictable passages of text . |
| 40 | Then she turned and fled from the dance floor , pushing her way between the smooching couples and heading for the Ladies , a box of a room with pegs lining two walls , a flyblown mirror over a grubby cracked china sink and two cubicles . |
| 41 | ‘ You first tucked up your skirts between your legs and you danced backwards and forwards , round and about and over a lighted candlestick . |
| 42 | Is it not time , though , to ask whether all this heady ferment over a mere conductor — Abbado or any other — has not got out of hand ? |
| 43 | They were not disappointed for over a mere twenty-six balls Healthcare total was equalled . |
| 44 | over a mere eight years . |
| 45 | He was fastidious about his hair , which he grew long and lacquered in place over a balding pate . |
| 46 | He was plastering wet threads of hair over a balding pate , and there was a look of alarm in those magnified eyes . |
| 47 | Marrakesh really arrived as a marathon on January 13 when Osmiro de Souza Silva of Brazil , ran alone from 29K to a 2:09:55 ( $12,000 cash ) victory over a respectable field . |
| 48 | A CUSTOMER superglued his arm to a shop counter yesterday in a row over a three-piece suite . |
| 49 | It is , in fact , a supercooled liquid , and if heated , it would soften slowly over a broad temperature range , rather than melting abruptly . |
| 50 | Glass Reinforced Plastic otherwise known as GRP , or Glass Fibre , is available in solid rod , or as tubes over a broad range of sizes . |
| 51 | The series is also spread over a broad area ( both instruments sharing the same serial form ) to cover the first twelve bars of the work . |
| 52 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 53 | The temple can only be approached over a narrow drawbridge of truesteel . |
| 54 | We observed a chemotactic response to MIP-1 β over a narrow range of cytokine concentrations ( Fig. 1 a ; and data not shown ) ; MIP-1 β has been reported to induce myeloid cell chemotaxis at higher concentrations and apparently T-cell chemotaxis . |
| 55 | These consist of two linear portions whose slopes differ and closer inspection reveals that over a narrow range of temperature of between 2 and 5 K the slope changes continuously . |
| 56 | From the curves it can be seen that there is a rapid change in log over a narrow range of temperature corresponding to the glass transition . |
| 57 | If the filter is a good one , is much larger over a narrow range of frequencies , centred on ω O than elsewhere , and eqn ( 19.29 ) reduces to where C is a calibration constant . |
| 58 | That might have been written a week ago following the extraordinary dispute over a young girl 's ear . |
| 59 | The first game with legs still weary , was won 31–14 over a young and energetic Newfoundland XV . |
| 60 | A weeping standard rose — a rambler growing from the top of a single stem — is especially beautiful when draped over a shaped top support , as here . |