Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] over [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may explain the fact that the production units of a particular industry have grown larger over a period of time by appealing to the economies this yields , and in doing so claim that a cause ( increase in scale ) occurred because of its propensity to have a certain effect ( economies of scale ) . |
| 2 | A hawk had swooped low over the field of play , picked up the ball in its claws and flown off with it . |
| 3 | If the material is being used on a table or flat surface , it means that in order to use it at a close distance from the eye , the head is bent low over the book in order to try to discriminate the print . |
| 4 | Reporting of this kind had become familiar over the fighting in this area . |
| 5 | Even though the epidermis appears to be stretched taut over the surface of a structure such as a growing limb bud , its response to wounding is to close over the lesion , rather than to gape more widely . |
| 6 | It catalogued ‘ positively dangerous ’ work practices , poor management , inadequate training and supervision and inherent weakness in the safety culture of BR in a list of 16 separate ‘ relevant errors ’ where things had gone wrong over a number of years . |
| 7 | The Test of Professional Competence , for building surveyors , first introduced in 1973 , has remained unchanged over a period during which many other changes both technological and sociological have taken place within the Division . |
| 8 | But cistern-drenched wheat and barley had burst yellow over the plain of the Messaoria , and the sickles twinkled and chimed as , booted and belled , harvesters strode to their work among serpents . |