Example sentences of "water over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hyperbolic functions are commonly used in kinetics : eg , the speed of waves in water over a shallow bottom is given by : V ² = 1.8 L th ( 6.3 d / L ) where V is velocity in knots and L is the wavelength in feet . |
| 2 | When the bread balls hit the water over a bream that was near to the leader , then the leader would react after that fish and then , and only then , would the remainder of the shoal follow suit . |
| 3 | In the same pan , dissolve the sugar in one tablespoon of water over a low heat , then cook until just beginning to turn golden . |
| 4 | A replacement will be announced in the next few days , while it has emerged that Donald Carr , who once as England captain poured a bucket of water over a Pakistani umpire , was proposed as referee for the recent Pakistan-Sri Lanka series — and like Graveney , was not surprisingly rejected . |
| 5 | Last week she was out on 'er doorstep threatenin' ter chuck a pail o' water over a couple o' Galloway 's carmen . |
| 6 | The cloud seems to spill from the City 's edge like water over a fall . |
| 7 | It 's difficult to be sure , but I 'd say he 'd been put in the water immediately after death and that he 's been tossed about in shallow water over a rocky bottom ever since . |
| 8 | Melt the plain chocolate with three tablespoons of water over a pan of hot water . |
| 9 | ‘ Love one , ’ said Greg , and watched as Hilary went over to a little kettle on a hot-plate in the corner of the room and slopped boiling water over a tea-bag . |
| 10 | The GAO report cites the instance of one storage tank which it estimated had leaked between 50,000 and 800,000 gallons of radioactive water over a ten-year period up to 1978 , against the operators ' reporting of 5,000 gallons . |
| 11 | Ruth went down the stone stairs that curved to the ground floor and followed the archways that led to an inner courtyard that might have been uncomfortably hot but was tempered by a cool fountain that arced water over a frolicking marble dolphin and child below . |
| 12 | It related to an incident last August in Manchester Road Swindon when Mr Neilsen threw a bucket of water over a prostitute , Rachel Symonds . |
| 13 | A prisoner who threw boiling water over a fellow inmate has been jailed for a further three and a half years . |