Example sentences of "over a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However to deliver high concentrates over a moderately large area of irregular equipment a sprayer should be adjusted to a fine jet . |
| 2 | He takes great trouble over a seemingly endless stream of difficulties . |
| 3 | His father was an Ulsterman who emigrated to Scotland to work in the mines , where he married a local woman and presided over a strictly protestant household in which both parents were active members of the Orange Lodge . |
| 4 | Over a fanatically carnivorous lunch in an Argentinian joint on Eighty-Second Street my friend Fielding had been very reassuring on the whole Lorne-Caduta question . |
| 5 | While far from being a ‘ wet ’ herself , Mrs Thatcher was presiding over a distinctly watered-down form of Tory economic policy by the summer of 1983 . |
| 6 | The fact that it is very difficult to do does n't prevent a lot of people wishing to achieve it , but it is very seldom that , in the industrial world , anybody has achieved and held continuously a pre-eminent position over a very long period of time . |
| 7 | The reading passages , in particular , are intelligent and well-informed , and reflect the opinion of the best of our modern media over a very broad range of interest . |
| 8 | However , these increasingly centralized and expensive units only enforce control over a very narrow range of public or ‘ street visible ’ acts of social disorder . |
| 9 | It is not surprising , then , that there are many unsatisfactory ways of calculating valence electron excitation energies , but none that give convincing results except over a very narrow group of compounds . |
| 10 | Despite its name , it is found over a very wide range of warm countries , including not only most of Africa but also the Mediterranean islands of Majorca , Corsica , Sardinia , Sicily and Crete . |
| 11 | The families of a nation have an enormous collective purchasing power over a very wide range of products and services . |
| 12 | Admittedly it is diachronous , but hardly by more than half a stage or so , and it is still a valid generalisation to say that a massive limestone is developed over a very wide area towards the end of early Cretaceous times . |
| 13 | These two documents named places over a very wide area of Italy ( the duchy of Rome , Tuscany , the Campagna , the Ravenna exarchate , Pentapolis , Sabina ) rather than defined frontiers . |
| 14 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
| 15 | David Clarke suggested use of resources over a very wide area by the lake village at Glastonbury in the Iron Age , and John Coles suggests that the pattern of land use in the Levels shown by Michael Williams for the medieval period probably has a prehistoric ancestry . |
| 16 | Comparison of the contents of the first two editions of Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , published in 1965 and 1983 , reveals just how completely and all-pervasively this change took place over a very short period of time . |
| 17 | This was particularly the case with patients who had been given methadone reduction over a relatively long period of time , say two to three months . |
| 18 | Elicitation procedures make it possible to examine a very broad spectrum of linguistic abilities in a systematic manner over a relatively short period of time . |
| 19 | It appears entirely possible for a coronary artery to progress from one with hardly any narrowing to one which is completely blocked over a relatively short period of time ; and conversely , it is possible for a severe coronary stenosis to stay as a severe coronary stenosis without progressing for several years . |
| 20 | But look at the effective freedom which a Chancellor of the Exchequer possesses to make major alterations over a comparatively short span of time in the methods by which a given amount of revenue is raised . |
| 21 | The similarity is that your risks are spread over a much wider range of investments than you could achieve on your own . |
| 22 | Her level of engagement shows that she was involved to a greater extent over a much larger part of the day . |
| 23 | This of course was not the main part of the work , but a pilot study used to test and refine some hypotheses about the wider sociolinguistic situation , which was then investigated more fully over a much longer period of time . |
| 24 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 25 | What we try to do is to make available to people opportunities for study in depth and over a fairly long period of time , on issues and in subjects which are part of University activity . |