Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves . |
| 2 | The keys cover eleven types of payment and eight miscellaneous keys cover the major credit cards , all with programmable limitations to alert the operator when management authorisation must be given to accept vouchers over a certain limit . |
| 3 | The attempt to hound companies over a debatable interpretation of one day 's delay shows a particularly nasty form of small-mindedness . |
| 4 | The government had , on Sept. 15 , promised aid of F50,000,000 to help farmers over a difficult period . |
| 5 | Political power was decentralised in the sense that warriors were able to claim rights over a local territory and enforce their own brand of justice by means of military might . |
| 6 | The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) . |
| 7 | The following week the Environment Secretary flies to Luxembourg to voice reservations over a planned EC tax on fossil fuels . |
| 8 | Participating gastroenterologists were asked to enrol eligible duodenal ulcer patients consecutively but none was permitted to enrol more than seven patients since the aim was to recruit patients over a short a time period as possible while ensuring that they were also drawn from many different parts of the country . |