Example sentences of "over a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rope had been thrown over a low beam in the room and tied to the top of the Bookman 's cage . |
| 2 | 1 Melt the butter over a low heat in a pan with a poring lip . |
| 3 | The last pitch was a real sting in the tail , but the perplexing moves up a short crack in a wall soon succumbed to brute force and determination and I swung exultantly over a final bulge on the monstrous , weathered holds to sit satiated on the plateau , soaking up the sun until Alec pulled over , grinning with triumph . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | like on i well no , no , you have to , you the net has to fall over a certain part of the creature . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The styles of learning in Koranic schools and catechist classes have predictable effects on the way children learn in school , but the missionary tradition in education is responsible for so much else besides , ( over a long period of the history of formal education the great majority of schools were missionary schools ) . |
| 9 | The large increase in coastal shipping after 1760 was built on a transport facility which had already proved itself over a long period among the most valuable of the country 's natural assets . |
| 10 | They were sitting together over a rough table in a room in a farmhouse outside Abergavenny . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The majority of these operate ‘ bussing routes ’ so that the expatriate families do not necessarily need to live close to the school itself but may choose to live along the school bus route , over a wider area of the capital . |
| 13 | The other major case , which later separated into two , involved the murders of two boys aged 14 and 6 , which obtained fairly intensive coverage over a five-day period in the popular dailies . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 16 | Elsewhere ( as along the western seaboard of North America ) plates were converging and being subducted , but over a great part of the earth 's surface , and my part of it in particular , the plates were gently moving apart as the Atlantic formed from its median ridge . |
| 17 | As Tom Regan has pointed out , there is a convergence between these causes over a great deal of the range . |
| 18 | So this cell signals both onset and offset of a small spot over a small region of the visual field . |
| 19 | That is , it does not take into account the fact that particles do not have precisely defined positions and velocities but are ‘ smeared out ’ over a small region by the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics that does not allow us to measure simultaneously both the position and the velocity . |
| 20 | The receptionist presided over a small office on the twenty-second floor of the United Nations Building , its unmarked door locked at all times and only accessible to authorized personnel . |
| 21 | Efforts over a prolonged period by the BMC and the Sandstone Climbing Club have failed to win reductions in the excessive charges here , but these efforts will continue . |
| 22 | But over a substantial fraction of the wake width , turbulent and non-turbulent motion alternate . |
| 23 | This consists of a layer of gravel over a raised grid at the bottom of the tank . |
| 24 | In tendering his resignation , Mr Adamec cited undue pressure from the opposition in the haggling this week over a new cabinet as the main reason . |
| 25 | THE outcry over a new version of the world 's most popular ballet has been branded ‘ a storm in a teacup ’ . |
| 26 | Turning onto finals over a wood-storage factory under the approach , the rattly , misfiring old JAP caused one or two upturned faces as I throttled back and descended , sounding like an aerial vintage motorcycle , towards the grass runway at about 60 kts , reducing to 50 over the threshold . |
| 27 | In the decade 's final timetable , there is an express every 15 minutes ( plus one extra ) between Swindon and Paddington over a two-and-a-half-hour period in the morning rush . |
| 28 | The observation of a progression enables the vibrational potential function to be specified over a wide range of the quantum number ν . |
| 29 | Many fossil distributions , of very varied ages , imply remarkably uniform conditions over a wide part of the earth 's surface . |
| 30 | Audible and visual warnings will attract workers ' attention over a wide area to a potential or actual hazard . |