Example sentences of "may [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interpreting these counts needs care , particularly those for the winter , when very marked fluctuations have been recorded , for , unlike most other waders , the wintering Black-tailed Godwits may move about over the whole of the estuarine complex from Pagham Harbour to Portsmouth Harbour in Hampshire . |
| 2 | But just as the overall form of our body remains the same , despite the constant replacement of the atoms and molecules of which it is made , so is the overall form of nature maintained as identifiably the same old physical universe , though the pattern may alter markedly over the course of time . |
| 3 | The positive and negative externalities which have been identified thus far are likely to be rather different for research activities ( i.e. those concerned with the production of new information ) than they are for development activities ( i.e. those concerned with embodying new information into particular products ) , and they may change systematically over the life of any given collaborative programme . |
| 4 | It is tempting to hang on to the launch , thinking that it will pick up speed , but if you do you may arrive almost over the end of the field with very little height or speed — an awkward situation . |
| 5 | Individual cells may crawl about over the surface of the sponge like amoebae . |