Example sentences of "over a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's two new ones from Fender , but separated by several thousand miles and over a grand 's worth of drinking vouchers … |
| 2 | Like a camera my restless mind followed the rabid mongrels of Puno as they roamed down the narrow streets , through the tight patchwork of market stalls , over the rubble-lined railway track , to fight at last over a pair of cow 's horns I had seen earlier topping a pile of refuse . |
| 3 | All over a pair of shoes , I ask you . |
| 4 | BOBBY BROWN and Whitney Houston have had their first lover 's tiff … over a pair of pet pooches . |
| 5 | The tape is played over a pair of stereo headphones to the subject who hears one member of the stimulus pair at one ear and the second member of the pair at the opposite ear . |
| 6 | Court was wearing a light robe over a pair of pale blue pyjamas . |
| 7 | They 're less impressive as they smoulder , marmalade-like , over a pair of kohl-black eyebrows . |
| 8 | yeah , well yeah I mean one of the blokes I he said just over a pair of |
| 9 | The linen canvas was stretched over a chassis with two vertical crossbars and a chamfer bead used to lift the canvas off the chassis . |
| 10 | Brush the glaze while still hot over a fruit cake , but allow to cool slightly before spreading over a sponge cake . |
| 11 | The parallel rakes of badger claws show up on scratching posts , such as fallen logs or the trunks of trees , as well as in the bare earth surrounding a sett or on a badger 's path over a hedgebank. 4 . |
| 12 | A special stage stretching out over a carp pond will be built in front of a ruined tithe barn , with 2 stands of covered seating for 2,500 people . |
| 13 | Five Cabinet ministers resigned on July 26-27 when Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti called a vote of confidence over a media bill . |
| 14 | When the bread balls hit the water over a bream that was near to the leader , then the leader would react after that fish and then , and only then , would the remainder of the shoal follow suit . |
| 15 | I regret to inform him that , as things stand , he gives the impression that he intends to cling , right reason or none , to his position of power over a people who have consistently told him and his party that they want no part of it . |
| 16 | Times me , and hands over a quid when I cut a fraction of a second off my record — can you imagine ? |
| 17 | Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches . |
| 18 | Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground . |
| 19 | Liverpool was a curiously sensitive man who presided with firmness and tact over a series of Cabinets containing men of greater ability , several of them future prime ministers . |
| 20 | Over a series of dives , Skorupka eventually reached a point some 420 metres from base at 30 metres depth . |
| 21 | By sailing consistently over a series of races , you win by other people 's mistakes . |
| 22 | Attacks on the occupant 's blood-pressure can come nowadays , not from an overbearing monarch , but from an apparently limitless number of rebellious back-benchers , trying to establish control , or at least scrutiny , over a series of increasingly overbearing executives . |
| 23 | Venables and the Spurs board have been upset over a series of allegations Scholar has made in his book ‘ Behind Closed Doors ’ , which is published today . |
| 24 | Walking north from Gargrave the Pennine Wayfarer follows a meandering path over a series of drumlins to Airton , where an old cotton mill was once used for the manufacture of Dettol . |
| 25 | Clark ( 1973 ) assumed that , given the arrival of information , the values of the consequential price change and volume of trading are distributed independently from each other , and that each variable is independently and identically distributed over a series of information arrivals . |
| 26 | In 1978 Mexican Communist theorists and activists ‘ polemicised with Soviet Latin American specialists over a series of issues relating to the character of Mexican capitalism in the late 1970s … |
| 27 | Prehistoric started with a long pan over a series of cave murals : a man , a woman , a fight , a fuck , a tiger — a spaceship . |
| 28 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 29 | Greece also lodged strong protests over nationalist attacks on Greeks and their property in Albania , and over a series of raids on villages on the Greek side of the Greek-Albanian border . |
| 30 | Over a series of evenings at the end of March and the beginning of April , 13 chief examiners gave Associateship candidates invaluable advice on the techniques which could lead to success in the approaching examinations . |