Example sentences of "over a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 Melt the butter over a low heat in a pan with a poring lip . |
| 2 | TOP Liverpool radio DJ Tony Snell was due to meet station bosses today after being taken off the air over a live bust-up with a listener . |
| 3 | Those few casual workers in the catering industry who do seem to work on a more or less continuous , almost full-time basis over a long period for a single organisation ( the plaintiffs in the oft-cited " O'Kelly case " ) , tend to possess skills which that organisation , and indeed other potential employers , value . |
| 4 | Conversely , some econometricians have argued that it is more cost effective to use a ‘ drip ’ system , advertising more or less continuously over a long period at a very low weight . |
| 5 | They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny . |
| 6 | Descent is made southwards over a pathless moor to a depression containing a small tarn and a wall that rises to the next height , Swarth Fell . |
| 7 | Of this , SDR49,500,000 would be available over the next 12 months under a standby arrangement and SDR81,500,000 would be available over a three-year period under an ESAF arrangement . |
| 8 | Audible and visual warnings will attract workers ' attention over a wide area to a potential or actual hazard . |
| 9 | If , for example , she sometimes finds the superfluities of Godmersham amusing — ‘ At this present time I have five Tables , Eight & twenty Chairs & two fires all to myself ’ she none the less savours the ‘ luxurious sensation ’ of sitting ‘ in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Empirical evidence on aggregate investment tends to confirm that it is indeed inversely related to the rate of interest , but most evidence suggests that the relationship is a fairly weak one — for example , M. Evans estimated ( for United States data ) that a 25 per cent fall in interest rates would cause net investment to rise by 5–10 per cent over a two-year period after a one-year lag . |
| 12 | Over a crackling line from a studio in Boston , David is enthusing about Gigolo Aunts ' album recording sessions : ‘ It 's a lot more rock than we expected , ’ he chortles , with nary a hint of apology . |
| 13 | Under the agreement , government and parastatal loans were to be repaid over a 20-year period with a three-year grace period , while commercial debts would become payable over 15 years with an eight-year grace period . |
| 14 | Joanna , who has brown shoulder-length hair , was last seen wearing a turquoise and blue anorak over a green sweatshirt with a Harpers logo . |
| 15 | However , with agreement due to be reached soon between the Super League and the Scottish League about the arrangements for a return to the top ten formula the season after next , there is now set to be compromise over a 14-club league on a one-off basis . |
| 16 | A little temple presided over a sloping hillside with a prospect of open fields and river lined with reeds and willows . |
| 17 | When she returned , some twenty minutes later , she was wearing a lilac pintucked pinafore dress over a flower-sprigged blouse with a white collar . |
| 18 | " And the beauty of it , " he says now over a cold beer in a Manhattan restaurant , " was that I did n't know any better . |
| 19 | According to Mr K , it all started with an argument with a customer over a faulty toy in an Easter egg last year . |
| 20 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 21 | This ends just before the large A4031 bridge from which the canal emerges to cross over an aqueduct over a minor road with a public house below on the left and then crosses over another aqueduct over the railway main line through Birmingham . |