Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] over a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 2 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 3 | The varnish can also be successfully applied over a solvent-based stain if required . |
| 4 | The performance of the simple low-pass C-R filter is best displayed over a large range of frequency in a plot of versus . |
| 5 | The sheet of paper is not stretched over a rubber roller or platen as it would be with an impact printer but a sheet of metal . |
| 6 | Of course , as has been shown , neither English nor humane education were simply " there " , but had been laboriously constructed over a long period . |
| 7 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
| 8 | Finally the nomadic Parthians were followed , two , centuries after Christ , by the Sassaniansm who Shahanshah , or King , still ruled over a vast area , including parts of what are now Georgia , Armenia , Afghanistan , Bahrain and Iraq . |
| 9 | Er this being gradually achieved over a three year phased expansion period . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some people are also concerned that water beds are too heavy for some floors , but this is practically never the case as the weight of the water is evenly distributed over a large area . |
| 12 | His horse , the reins loosely looped over an upright arm of rock , noisily nuzzled into the cropped turf . |
| 13 | Occasionally , one would flick snow at the other — although by now the snow was well trampled over a wide area . |
| 14 | Now she stood there , one hand on her hip , the other holding a knife dramatically poised over an oblong platter of an anchovy- and pepper-covered layered confection , watched by an admiring audience of Mediterraneans . |
| 15 | There can be little doubt that , in terms of property development , the LDDC has indeed presided over a dramatic transformation in London 's Docklands . |
| 16 | Trust me , he said — and then presided over an inflationary boom . |
| 17 | There 's really no chance of getting bitten if your ferrets have been properly handled over a long period and are never scared . |
| 18 | The results of investigations in all patients referred by family practitioners to a medical gastroenterology outpatient clinic for the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia were prospectively collected over a 17 month period . |
| 19 | He had until recently presided over a cautious freeing of expression and politics . |
| 20 | This technique was highly dangerous and required the skills that Cheshire had certainly acquired over a long period , but was equally within Gibson 's exceptional abilities . |