Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adult speech which contains a relatively high proportion of statements or declaratives has been associated with accelerated language development in young children , while studies of pre-schoolers have indicated that conversations are more likely to be maintained over a number of turns if adults make positive contributions by adding new information ( Wood et al . |
| 2 | The behaviour of privatised industries will have to be studied over a number of years before it is possible to conclude whether the ownership of the company ( ie private or public ) or the market structure ( ie competitive or monopolistic ) is the major determinant of corporate behaviour . |
| 3 | Now suppose that the strength acquired by A tends , for some reason , to be lost over a retention interval whereas that controlled by X is retained . |
| 4 | Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time . |
| 5 | It 's typical of the states I get in here I suddenly told myself that the digging would have to be done over a number of days , the only stupid thing was to expect to do it all in one . |
| 6 | Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’ |
| 7 | Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions . |
| 8 | As stated above , the samples of dementia sufferers were to be generated over a period of one year ( 1 April 1984–31 March 1985 ) ; and the development officers were to continue to provide their service for one further year ( until 31 March 1986 ) though no further sample members ( project clients in the case of the action sample ) were to be generated during the second year . |
| 9 | Part of the explanation for this is that government spending tends to be planned over a number of years ( e.g. hospitals , schools , and other capital expenditures take several years to complete , and governments are reluctant to dismiss teachers , policemen , and other employees for short-term economic reasons ) ; consequently such expenditure tends to be fairly inflexible , especially downwards , in the short run . |
| 10 | In addition to exploring the influences upon arrears , this approach will allow the course of arrears to be traced over a period of time . |
| 11 | In due course they will arrive in Safra to be offloaded over a beach and thence travel by road into the theatre of operations . |
| 12 | Broadly speaking , transformation into a common market was to be spread over a period of between 12 and 15 years , with a stepwise progression through stages of four years each . |
| 13 | Business has to be discussed over a drink in the pub , with food quickly snatched at the bar , or an even more hurried lunch grabbed at your desk between meetings . |
| 14 | Another plan is for the new partners to be admitted merely on undertaking to contribute their share of the partnership capital , and this may either be raised by borrowing from a bank or insurance company ( with periodic repayments ) or be left to be paid over a period of years by deduction from their share of the profits . |
| 15 | All Church properties such as schools , hospitals and cultural establishments , converted into state property by the communist regime , were to be returned over a period of 10 years . |
| 16 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 17 | One problem for small businesses is that capital needs to be reinvested over a number of years yet there are no special allowances provided by the government for doing so . |
| 18 | Discrimination and parental choice have come to be linked over a number of issues of current importance . |