Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast both productive opportunities yield positive NPVs ; that is , they provide a return to investors over and above that offered by the capital market . |
| 2 | The modern way is to meet a group of patients over a party-type meal and discuss how to cope with the problems that may arise . |
| 3 | BRITISH Petroleum and Jet cut the price of petrol by up to 13.5p a gallon — 3p a litre — yesterday , ending a run of increases over recent months . |
| 4 | Continue in this way until all the seaweed has been prepared , then cover each piece with a clean sheet of blotting paper and place a couple of newspapers over the top . |
| 5 | It also has a couple of sockets over the ears where you can plug in what is to all effects a stethoscope . ’ |
| 6 | Ah , so the the child 's mind is uncluttered , it 's more easily able to erm , observe things , take in things , learn things , and has a lot of advantages over us older , us adults . |
| 7 | It will be noticed that the personal sector has a surplus of receipts over expenditure of £500 million , the public sector has a deficit of £1,500 million , the external sector has a surplus amounting to £1,000 million , and the industrial and commercial sector is in balance . |
| 8 | Trial work suggests that the technique has a number of advantages over other forms of injection . |
| 9 | An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ . |
| 10 | But Bourdieu 's notion of structure ( partly because it includes agency ) in modernity has a number of advantages over these other analysts . |
| 11 | Special thesaurus software has a number of advantages over the alternative , which is usually the use of a database package or a word processing package to store terms . |
| 12 | The most promising of these techniques , the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) has a number of advantages over more conventional methods . |
| 13 | The non-professional also has a number of advantages over professional services . |
| 14 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Keycard systems hold a number of advantages over traditional cylinder locks for both the guest and the hotelier . |
| 16 | But as he tapped it , expertly , for he had suffered an onslaught of boils over a suppurating , pus-stinking twelvemonth , he knew that the hardness meat it was not quite ripe . |
| 17 | The horseman threw a couple of sacks over the backs of his horses and sat under the hedge to eat his elevenses . |
| 18 | The next mill downstream has had a variety of names over the years : Russell Mill , Lowes Mill and more recently , Malvern Mill . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ We have had a number of complaints over the last few months . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ One trader has already indicated he has had an increase in takings over the last week . |
| 21 | It could take up to four years before a full hearing in the European Court , but Liberty 's legal officer , John Wadham , suggested yesterday that the action might prompt the Government to include a mechanism for complaints over GCHQ in its forthcoming bill to put the Secret Intelligence Service , MI6 , on a statutory footing . |
| 22 | Miss Danziger had heard a variety of interpretations over the many years . … |
| 23 | Hungary and Czechoslovakia have reached a deadlock in discussions over a hydro-electric dam to be built on the River Danube , which according to environmentalists and scientists , presents serious hazards . |
| 24 | Facing ever increasing numbers of Norse raids the Mages of Saphery draw a shroud of mists over the eastern sea approaches to Ulthuan . |
| 25 | The charges arose out of deals involving arms and technology purchases by the IAF from US defence contractors and raised a number of questions over Israel 's handling of the annual US military grant worth US$1,800 million . |
| 26 | The trainer 's task is to explore more deeply , by facilitating an exchange of views over what else might happen and what passes through the minds of the adviser and client as a result of particular approaches . |
| 27 | Charles led an army of Neustrians over the western Pyrenees , while a further force levied from Austrasia , Lombardy and Burgundy , crossed the eastern Pyrenees . |
| 28 | Because the faculty receives an excess of applications over places available , having the grades listed in the table of course requirements does not mean that a place will necessarily be offered . |
| 29 | Cutaways are a great help when you are trying to build a sequence of events over which you have little or no control . |
| 30 | If you have time and can take a couple of days over the job , wait until the water has drained away , and fill the hole again . |