Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information . |
| 2 | A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square . |
| 3 | They lived in small villages scattered over the landscape in varying degrees of density . |
| 4 | Scattered over the moorland to the left are the remains of hut circles . |
| 5 | While a large number of the items taken from Germany are held in special State-run storage facilities and are easy to work with , the majority of works removed from Russia were scattered over the world in the post-war period ’ . |
| 6 | I do n't know whether this is optional … is ‘ being severed in two , bowels turned to ashes and these ashes scattered over the face of the earth . ’ |
| 7 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 8 | Finally a sheer mountain of a wave smashed over the raft with a furious roar and swept it further on to the reef away from the pounding terror . |
| 9 | ‘ Reversionary ’ bonus is added over the term of the policy and once added becomes part of the guaranteed benefits and can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term . |
| 10 | ‘ Reversionary ’ bonus is added over the term of the policy and once added becomes part of the guaranteed benefits and can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term . |
| 11 | One of the semi-independent Chinese generals had come over the border from China and encamped not far from Myitkyina . |
| 12 | Then she slid out into the hall , fist clenched over the treasure in her pocket . |
| 13 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 14 | Dredge was shot down in flames in Hurricane Z3057 on 6 May , only ten days after arriving on Malta ; he baled out , badly burned , and was probably the first victim claimed over the island by Ritterkreuzträger Oblt . |
| 15 | At Congleton the canal is carried over a road at the south-east side of the town by a cast-iron aqueduct , built around 1835 , on curving masonry abutments . |
| 16 | Travel agents and tour operators often make back to back reservations which means that certain accommodation is booked over a period of time and as one group of guests depart another group takes their place . |
| 17 | However , as soon as the crew saw the lifeboat they hurried along the deck with their suitcases and immediately scrambled over the side onto the lifeboat ! |
| 18 | Allowance will be made for the early payment of a lump sum to the employer which he would have earned over a period of time . |
| 19 | That respect has been earned over the space of a 39- year career with the firm which has seen Grants take its Glenfiddich brand and turn it from a regional tipple in the north-east of Scotland into Britain 's and the world 's leading single malt . |
| 20 | The outer layer of the skin ( epidermis ) is made up of cells which are shed over a cycle of 28 days . |
| 21 | Such a selection policy is clearly professionally and publicly unacceptable , from any political grouping , and if pursued over a period of time , will surely replace education with propaganda as one of the purposes of the public library service . |
| 22 | About nine that morning a German pathfinder had been reported over the Firth of Forth . |
| 23 | From 1973–5 the Soviet Union sold Peru aircraft , tanks , surface-to-air missiles and artillery on very generous terms and when , in 1978 , the Peruvians found themselves unable to maintain payments for their weapons , the Soviet Union rolled over the debt until 1981–8 , indicating their reluctance to relinquish this sole market . |
| 24 | If unions or individuals bargain for , and receive , wages on the basis of an expected rate of inflation that does not occur , then real wages will be higher or lower than expected over the period of the bargain . |
| 25 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 26 | To hold a large piping bag , grip it so that your fingers are curled over the front of the bag and the folded corner twisted between your thumb and index finger . |
| 27 | The discretionary power that de Gaulle gave his prime ministers varied over the course of his presidency . |
| 28 | According to Barclays Computer Operations , Barclay 's services arm which manages the data centres , the old kit was installed over a period of one to four years . |
| 29 | The riots appear to have been precipitated by an apparently casual incident when a Meskhetian angrily tipped over a table of strawberries being sold by an Uzbek girl . |
| 30 | Turtle tipped over the bar from Andy Coulter whose shot was going in following a great cross from Garth McIlwain . |