Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] over a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As noted earlier , the findings reported here flow from an international comparative research programme that has been sustained over a seven-year period , beginning in 1983 .
2 Complex adaptations have developed because in certain circumstances the same selection pressure has been maintained over a long period of time .
3 All your behaviour , with the exception of those reflexes that were built into the system , has been acquired over a long period of ad hoc learning .
4 A striking Norwegian experiment , in which a glass roof has been put over a whole catchment , shows the degree of such ecosystem damage .
5 Such dresses may have been worn over a sleeved under-dress which generally received no fastenings , with some exceptions which were secured at the wrist with a clasp which may carry evidence of braid ( Crowfoot 1952 ) .
6 If it 's a professional job they will have been observed over a long period and their habits and financial status will be known . ’
7 There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source .
8 Boy charged with rape A 15-YEAR-OLD boy appeared before magistrates yesterday charged with rape and other serious sexual offences involving young children , alleged to have been committed over a lengthy period .
9 It had been tracked over a three-year period by satellite and radio beacon and its movements have demonstrated that four separate currents affect the region of Antarctica near the Ross Ice shelf .
10 In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops .
11 A rope had been thrown over a low beam in the room and tied to the top of the Bookman 's cage .
12 Beer had been thrown over a local and Slatter was obviously to blame .
13 The material of the bags had been destroyed in the fire and most of the burned contents of the hold had been dispersed over a wide area .
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