Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this type of study , trend values of consumption and income are collected over a long period of time so that most cyclical fluctuations are smoothed out . |
| 2 | The upholstered seat is formed over a separate beechwood frame . |
| 3 | Should employees ’ location allowances decrease as a result of a transfer , any such decrease is phased over a three-year period . |
| 4 | Following his death in January 1970 , an estate auction was held over a three day period the following September . |
| 5 | This experiment was conducted over a longer time period ( ten days ) , starting with young plants . |
| 6 | A taper was applied over a sliding scale of income , but on average the formula worked out so that most single parents would be able to earn an additional £12 without losing benefit entitlement . |
| 7 | Because family credit and housing benefit are withdrawn over a large band of income , and because low-income families begin to pay tax at a low threshold , there are now whole bands of income over which it is difficult for low-income families to improve their net income . |
| 8 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 9 | The population is spread over a large area of agricultural land . |
| 10 | A Face of War was shot over a 97-day period , and portrays the experiences of Mike Company , 3rd Battalion , 7th Marine Regiment ; during this period Jones was wounded twice and one of his photographers once . |
| 11 | In one case war was declared over a disputed game . |
| 12 | The worst day for bomb scares was the Wednesday before Christmas , when many hours of trading were lost over a wide area of the centre of town . |
| 13 | Dampers are carefully designed so that this linear relationship is preserved over a wide range of speed difference . |
| 14 | This rate is maintained over a wide range of aortic pressures by means of afferent and efferent arteriolar autoregulatory mechanisms , such as angiotensin II , renal prostaglandins , contractile myoepithelium , and the glomerular mesangium . |
| 15 | As well as these precepting bodies there are numerous joint committees for other services where co-operation is needed over a wider area than the individual district . |
| 16 | The gruel was served up and a long grace was said over a short the gruel disappeared , the boys looked at each other and went over , while his next neighbours nudged him , tired as he was he was desperately hungry and he rest on the table and the master with his hands he said |
| 17 | Clover variety Siwan was measured over a twenty-four hour period and showed a slight growth trend with a large ( over 30% ) roughly periodic variation , see Figure . |
| 18 | Schedule 13 , para 7(i) , Local Government Act 1972 required that where expenditure was defrayed by borrowing , a sum equivalent to an instalment of principal and interest was debited to the relevant operating statement so that the loan was repaid over a specified period of years . |
| 19 | The speeds of molecules in a gas are spread over a wide range . |
| 20 | Consideration may need to be given to switching partners or departments to achieve this ; ( 3 ) inevitably , where the activities of a firm are spread over a wide area , problems arise in connection with the basic decision making processwhen , for example , partners ' meetings become more difficult to arrange . |
| 21 | Insider dealing in this respect is controlled by restricting the number of traders who have access to information , a technique which they believe is easier than trying to control how much information is announced over a given period of time . |
| 22 | Improvement was maintained over a follow-up period of six months . |
| 23 | A SHADOW was cast over a sombre Royal wreath-laying ceremony yesterday when the Prince of Wales ' convoy arrived on the wrong side of a monument to one of Poland 's most painful wartime memories . |
| 24 | The 1991 Energy Challenge was run over a 370 kilometre course in New South Wales , and the winners were those who completed the course with the least polluting emissions , calculated on the basis of their performance against a " greenhouse gas index " , without holding up other traffic . |
| 25 | Because intensive subject assessment is concentrated over a short period of time , many felt that disruption of staff and students was less , in the long run , than under the normal system . |
| 26 | It would in some parts of the country be distributed over a wide area : the whole of East Anglia , for instance , with at present precisely 20 single-member constituencies , and in Scotland some considerably more extensive territories . |
| 27 | When the press is sued over a reported quotation , it may obtain some relief by joining the speaker as co-defendant thereby making the real libeller liable to contribute to costs and damages . |
| 28 | Fortunately I had bought the machine through a Mail Order catalogue , so the cost was spread over a few months . |
| 29 | This reading skills course was developed over a four year period at the Faculty of Political Science in Bologna , Italy . |
| 30 | The decay of the transient absorption was monitored over a few hundred microseconds , following a 30 ns photolysis flash [ 25 ] . |