Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |
| 2 | This assumption may be relaxed to a certain extent by allowing for tenure over a specified number of ( exogenously chosen ) periods ( see NN ) or for random terminations ( see Lancaster and Chesher , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Many men and women are employed under contracts of employment which provide for transfers over a wide area . |
| 4 | It has to do with short-term planning and public accounting systems , which mean that , although money can in theory be voted for projects over a number of years , in practice , it usually arrives in annual dribs and drabs . |
| 5 | On reaching the summit at 12.41 local time , 7.41 BST , Ms Stephens shouted for joy over a radio link to Mr Earl and her boyfriend and climbing colleague John Barry at the Advanced Base Camp Two at 23,000 ft . |
| 6 | It is worth recalling that in Section 3.3 the analogous question was addressed for transport over a curved surface . |
| 7 | Enrichment of the hydrogen content is accomplished by passing the syn-gas mixed with steam over an iron catalyst , when the mildly exothermic ‘ water gas shift reaction ’ occurs , |
| 8 | The Whig and Tory groupings had come into existence over a particular crisis , and although that crisis was not about just one issue — Exclusion — it was the case that the parties polarised over how they thought the crisis could be resolved . |
| 9 | William Plumpton , cultivating Gloucester and his retainer John Pilkington in the hope of bringing pressure to bear on Northumberland over a Knaresborough office , was firmly warned off by a more sophisticated associate . |
| 10 | William Plumpton , cultivating Gloucester and his retainer John Pilkington in the hope of bringing pressure to bear on Northumberland over a Knaresborough office , was firmly warned off by a more sophisticated associate . |
| 11 | Evacuees were dispersed to billets over a wide area : for example , London children were spread from Land 's End to the Wash , under 476 billeting authorities and 73 education authorities . |
| 12 | I 'd be much more impressed by some positive suggestions of what we might do cos I th you know , months ago I was browbeaten outside church over a lot of similar issues and I said then , you know |
| 13 | Also yesterday , a UN spokesman said UN peace-keepers had protested to Yugoslavia over an amphibious exercise by its troops on a Serb-held part of Croatia . |
| 14 | Aethelheard , abbot of Louth in Lindsey , who became archbishop of Canterbury in 792 , may have been seen in Kent as a ‘ symbol of Mercian rule ’ , but he appears to have obtained from Offa a confirmation of the immunity of Kentish churches ( CS 848 : S 134 ) 52 and he presided without Hygeberht over a synod at London attended by most of the bishops of southern England ( CS 265 : S 132 ) . |
| 15 | There are an increasing number of surveys which have looked at individuals over a period of time . |
| 16 | We agree that in broad terms the mean number of heterosexual partners reported by men must be equal to the mean number reported by women over a specified time interval in a closed population . |
| 17 | What is or can be as superlatively silly or ruinous to the nerves as that silly girl , snivelling and laughing by turns over a ‘ love story ’ ? |
| 18 | Fraction DSC 0.3 containing the bulk of TFIIA activity was further purified by chromatography over a Mono Q FPLC column . |
| 19 | Even after living with Apaches over a month and after all the things they must have done to her . |
| 20 | Dr Eduardo Umaña Mendoza , law professor and human rights lawyer , has been repeatedly threatened with death over a number of months , apparently as a result of his activities in defence of human rights . |
| 21 | He added that the electorates of UN member States might be unwilling to see their young men die in Ireland over a sustained period . |
| 22 | It was built in brick over a long period ; the east end dates from the ninth century and the west from the tenth and eleventh while the vaults are mainly twelfth century . |
| 23 | In each case a small working party met within SHHD over a period of a number of months . |
| 24 | AT LEAST 150 people were feared dead last night after an Israeli jet exploded in mid-air over a city suburb . |
| 25 | FIREBALL : A cargo-carrying jumbo jet exploded in mid-air over a densely-populated suburb of Amsterdam and smashed into apartment blocks |
| 26 | The outside wheel is an iron breastshot unit locally made in Tewkesbury over a century ago , and replaced an older wooden one . |
| 27 | He was fastidious about his hair , which he grew long and lacquered in place over a balding pate . |
| 28 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 29 | The work is to be done at home over a period of about nine months . |
| 30 | This begins a sequence of letters from Celie to God , written at intervals over a period of more than thirty years . |