Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A BS spokesman said he could see no possible solution to the problem at this stage but the issue would be examined closely over the next six months .
2 For maximum usefulness , these measurements must be carried out over a wide range of temperature .
3 Other advantages proposed for speech are that the hands are free to perform other tasks and that communication may be carried out over a standard telephone line without the requirement for additional hardware .
4 Assessment of progress will be carried out over the two year period and will be based on the completion of design notebooks , workbooks , pattern drafts , knitted samples and garments and finally a written examination .
5 A Declaratory Order covering 270 acres was proposed with a view to designating extensively war-damaged land , subject to compulsory purchase ; this was required for essential improvements to be carried out over the next 15 years .
6 Follow-up visits will be carried out over the next three weeks , to obtain additional information on equipment , software , and your immediate working environment .
7 The tests are due to be carried out over the next fortnight but parents will face a six-week wait for the results .
8 In large-scale national surveys , as carried out regularly by market research firms and government agencies , interviews may be carried out over the whole country and the people who have the task of making the analysis of several hundred or thousand schedules can not possibly be for ever phoning through to the interviewers to ask what some cryptic little scribble opposite question number 15 is supposed to mean .
9 Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme .
10 That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’
11 Drainage : what needs to be done before a good soil structure can be built up over the whole farm ?
12 A replay is to be played out over the proposed Clairville Common complex between Anchor International and local objectors .
13 Tory sources insist that Mr Major is leaving the decision up to backbenchers , who will be sounded out over the next few days .
14 Protection will be phased out over the following three years ( 1991–92 to 1993–94 ) .
15 Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed .
16 The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 .
17 Advisers say the change — aimed at meeting European Community moves towards equality for the sexes — should be phased in over a 15-year period .
18 SCOTVEC 's new system of Advanced Courses will be phased in over a three year period .
19 The extra 300 staff will be phased in over the next few years .
20 XPG4 will be updated constantly over the next five years before the introduction of XPG5 , which is expected , by that time , to specify fully functional , object-oriented technology from the kernel level upwards .
21 The first will be shipped out over the next few weeks to start competing with the conventional hydrofoils , Boeing Jetfoil and high-speed catamarans that vie for business on the 78 km route to Macau .
22 This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time .
23 A single agency to control all forms of pollution in Scotland is to be set up over the next three years .
24 It is one of many ancient Egyptian obelisks to be found all over the civilised world : in Paris and Istanbul as well as London — Rome has a dozen of them — although there are still plenty on the banks of the Nile .
25 For the same reason solidification of an appreciable fraction of the mantle can also be ruled out over the same period of history .
26 The yard will be run down over the next three weeks with the loss of 600 jobs .
27 Next year the event will be held in the Grand Hall of Olympia 1 , which will provide 50% more floor space to be taken up over the next five years .
28 The light waves emitted from the surface of the star between 10:59:59 and 11:00 , by the astronaut 's watch , would be spread out over an infinite period of time , as seen from the spaceship .
29 In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time .
30 Details for opening the ‘ corridors ’ are to be thrashed out over the next four days .
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