Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of staying with me as he 'd planned , he rents this ancient pile , miles from anywhere , just so he can keep an eye on this stupid female who seems to have got herself into all sorts of trouble over a piece of land — ’ |
| 2 | Melt the plain chocolate with three tablespoons of water over a pan of hot water . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year . |
| 4 | On the same page appeared a sharp rebuke to Ken Brown , an idiosyncratic professional golfer , who had committed the unforgivable sin of refusing to give interviews to the press or television and making good his escape from a crowd of journalists by vaulting over a barrier . |
| 5 | The project will examine the religious activities of women over an area of Northern Greece . |
| 6 | On the whole his face gave little away , unlike Mr Kinnock 's , where emotion raced like the shadows of cloud and splashes of sunshine over a landscape . |
| 7 | In 1982 , he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Office minister Cranley Onslow , but resigned after just six days in protest over a dispute involving Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |
| 9 | 1979 ) to measure the time delay for reflections from Mars over a period of 14 months . |
| 10 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 11 | A number of steps involving work on crystals , yeast cells , thymus cells and mouse cells , in relation to transmissions of patterns over a distance , led to amazing discoveries . |
| 12 | The contrasts sound even more spectacular if the changes are expressed in terms of experience over a lifetime . |
| 13 | They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months . |
| 14 | Chairman can I er suggest to these results of course over a period and I 'd like to see |
| 15 | Steve Groves for ‘ We shot it yesterday when it was 3 feet higher' ’ Nick Reason for ‘ Dad , I know you 've got to have a head for heights to canoe over a waterfall like that but why 's that man got two heads ? ’ , |
| 16 | In tests at the Australian National University in Canberra , soya beans , rice and peas were given repeated low-level bursts of uv-B over a six- to eight-week period . |
| 17 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 18 | However in practice deterioration of stock inevitably sets in , through a variety of factors : original errors or omissions in selection ( for the reasons suggested above ) ; poor control of withdrawals and replacements ; fluctuations in funding over a period of years ; fluctuations in demand caused by changes in the constituency , or changes in their needs . |
| 19 | The product development venture , SunSolutions , a new moon circling Sun Technology Enterprises , last week debuted its first product , ShowMe , its computer conference software : based on Open Look , it says it can be deployed for on-line meetings and collaborating on compound documents in real-time over a TCP/IP net work . |
| 20 | Typology is the study of the development of particular types of artefact over a period of time . |