Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 2 | Fixed costs will often only be fixed over a limited range of output and will tend to behave in a stepped rather than linear fashion . |
| 3 | These real arts of the field man 's work can only be acquired over a long period , and they must be practised and refined by an officer on his own in the course of his work . |
| 4 | The temple can only be approached over a narrow drawbridge of truesteel . |
| 5 | Christmas puddings , jars of mincemeat , bunches of holly , fruit , nuts , table-mats , serviette-rings and dozens of other useful little articles they had made carefully and patiently were spread over a long trestle table in the hall . |
| 6 | Certain necessary fixed costs of overheads can then be spread over a greater number of units of output thus reducing their incidence per unit of output , and also unit attributable costs might be lowered via bulk buying or the better management of production , and by strengthening of purchasing power . |