Example sentences of "[conj] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often this is to do with the fact that the current bereavement has driven the person into emotional overload because of everything else that is happening in their life either currently or over a period of time . |
| 2 | But cases of die links between different places or over a long period of time are unusual . |
| 3 | This may be in a particular meeting or over a period of time . |
| 4 | Another popular scale is the Aeolian , which would be used over the VI chord of a harmonised major scale , or over a m7£5 chord . |
| 5 | Use this scale when soloing over a blues , over a m7 chord or over a dominant chord . |
| 6 | Such skirts are especially good worn over tights if you 're young and dashing or over a strongly contrasting coloured slip if you do n't fancy showing lots of leg — or try a mini length slip and a longer lace skirt as a happy compromise . |
| 7 | Other members of the family may be able to share care by helping out on alternative days or weeks , or over a two day period once a month , so that you can attend a back to nursing course . |
| 8 | But , perhaps more importantly , no other player could ( Law 18. ( 2 ) ( d ) ) wilfully fall on or over a player lying on the ground with the ball in his possession . |
| 9 | The result is that conflicts in one set of relationships , over a wide range of society , or over a long period of time , lead to the re-establishment of social cohesion ( 1955 : 2 ) . |
| 10 | Designed initially as an all-day alpine suit , the Nevada jacket and salopettes can be worn next to the skin or over a thermal wicking layer . |
| 11 | Each period of observation or each sequence of periods of observation , possibly on different days ( or over a longer period ) will provide a longitudinal ‘ case ’ study of six pupils ' affective responses to computer-assisted learning and non-computer-assisted learning . |
| 12 | imply a steady state system or over a long term and if over the long term the rate of addition of material to the sea is equalled by the rate of removal . |
| 13 | Currently , the most frequent demand is for a minimum wage level of two-thirds of average earnings to be either implemented immediately , or over a short period . |
| 14 | A sort of heat haze , as opposed to the intense burning sensation of the stripe paintings , emerges as if we are looking through a veil or over a great distance at flat lands . |
| 15 | Wilson found it agreeably ‘ refreshing ’ to face a customer not across a football-field-sized desk in a corporate headquarters but bobbing gently up and down in a houseboat on the Regents Canal , or over a pleasant weekend at Branson 's Oxford home . |
| 16 | Possibly its most endearing feature is that all the control is executed from the Macintosh , the PC can be connected locally or over a telephone line with modems and , apart from being started up , needs no attention . |
| 17 | Conversely , where existing competition is light and the traditional catchment area of the firm large , a wide restraint may be expected to be upheld ; and ( 4 ) a prohibition against accepting instructions from any person who has at any time , or over a long period , been a client of the outgoing partner 's former firm . |
| 18 | Most businesses will place , or take , orders by telephone , or as a result of face to face dealing , for instance as a result of a representative 's visit or , less formally , at a trade fair or over a business lunch . |
| 19 | Are you saying then that when one 's lapsed for six months or over a given period of time we should actually go out there and remove the signs |
| 20 | represents the ‘ weak ’ poverty trap , where over a wide range of earned income the effect of explicit taxation plus implicit taxation via the loss of means-tested benefits means that disposable income remains largely unaffected . |
| 21 | is the strong poverty trap , where over a range of earned income disposable income actually falls as earned income rises . |
| 22 | The recent survey of the Knossos area ( Hood and Smyth 1981 ) shows that the occupation area there had , by Late Minoan I , increased over ten times , albeit over a 1,000-year period since the Early Minoan . |
| 23 | Comparisons between the three race groups were between those living in the same small areas i.e. in roughly the same circumstances , rather than over a whole city or London borough . |
| 24 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 25 | It is not surprising , then , that there are many unsatisfactory ways of calculating valence electron excitation energies , but none that give convincing results except over a very narrow group of compounds . |
| 26 | When the Left want to take control of a particular constituency , they look at its controlling group and note that over a six-month period the maximum number of people attending the decision-making meetings is never more than ( say ) twenty-seven . |
| 27 | American reports say that the Pershing II , which is only a stretched , possibly over-stretched , Pershing I , has only once been fired successfully after a number of failures , and that over a shorter distance than will be required . |
| 28 | Volvo says that over a 125,000-mile life the ECC will have almost half the environmental impact of a conventional petrol-engined car . |
| 29 | One disadvantage of this to all parties is that over a long period memories fade and evidence becomes more difficult to establish . |
| 30 | The government plan is that over a four year term , there will be appraisal of all teachers in schools . |