Example sentences of "[noun] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were able to respond swiftly because they already have a secret ballot strike mandate over an ongoing pay dispute . |
| 2 | Just sometimes , this one had crimson nails , left over from the other , who wore a tight black skirt and a black jacket with padded shoulders over a pink silk shirt and was carefully made up with pink and brown eyeshadow , brushed blusher along the cheekbone and plummy lips . |
| 3 | On 7 June 1972 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ) issued a standard on asbestos exposure at work which took effect over a four-year period to 1 July 1976 . |
| 4 | This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised . |
| 5 | You can generate the dust by rubbing the Polychromos Pastels against fine sandpaper , a practical use for small remnant pieces that would otherwise be difficult to use up , or you can do as I do and spread the dust from very lightly applied pastel strokes , placed to allow a very deliberate development of the effect over a localised area . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Government did however put in a £200 million investment programme over a four-year period ( the previous annual average , apart from one missile development programme , had been £5 million ) . |
| 8 | Harmonic schemes on a larger scale , spanning large movements or in successions of movements , also require planning , for some change of key over a large area is needed to create contrast and relief . |
| 9 | The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves . |
| 10 | However , the government accepted that large hypermarkets would still require planning permission , and in some cases ( for example , Clydebank and Newcastle ) , it was agreed that declaration reports should include clauses governing shops over a certain size . |
| 11 | Important as the price of oil may be , the uncertainty over a possible physical shortage of supply was an equally compelling concern , with IEA active in formulating contingency plans for stock sharing in this event . |
| 12 | It appears that " the Free Church in the year 1855 and since that time have worshipped in a loft over a stable — the supply of ordinances has been irregular but the attachment of the adherents of the Free Church has been steadfast . " |
| 13 | He was quickly invited to play at court , where he delighted the king by playing at sight pieces by J C Bach , Abel , and ( George III 's favourite ) Handel ; playing brilliantly on the organ ; accompanying Queen Charlotte in an aria ; and improvising a melody over a Handelian bass . |
| 14 | She was sitting in an armchair in the library , murmuring words over a little black book . |
| 15 | In the circumstances , a construction of fabric over a wire-braced framework of wood or bamboo was logical and efficient , and sometimes , nothing else would have got off the ground with the power available . |
| 16 | Using the PIMS data base , they measured the performance of almost 200 business units over an eight-year period . |
| 17 | The Commission approved on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the third framework programme , its key technology research and development initiative , a budget of 5,700 million ECU over a five-year period of which one-third was to be for research into information technology . |
| 18 | The fraud involved creation of false profits and stocks in the books over a seven-year period through use of purported contracts , which in reality did not exist , with third world countries . |
| 19 | His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation . |
| 20 | This can happen while driving a car over a familiar route , and it can happen while reading predictable passages of text . |
| 21 | The IMF decided , in 1988 , that the limit to enlarged access would be 440 per cent of a country 's quota over a three-year period . |
| 22 | Borrowers are able to use the facility up to 140 per cent of their quota over a four-year period and with much more relaxed repayment conditions than the normal facilities . |
| 23 | For example , development must comprise private dwelling houses only , with no trade or business ( other than perhaps a doctor or dentist ) , no caravans or boats to be stored , no dogs , pigs or poultry , no sheds or sheds over a certain height , no loft conversions or extensions . |
| 24 | One wore a tattered summer dress in pink spotted cotton with double flounces , the other a pinafore over a checked blouse . |
| 25 | After a small riot over a beaded evening bag ( ‘ But darling , it belonged to your lovely mother , rest her soul ! |
| 26 | The LP , as yet untitled , will showcase him chattering like a sten-gun over a slinky , African-ish reggae backing . |
| 27 | ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . |
| 28 | In experimental work on the viscosity of the alkanes over a wide range of temperature Doolittle found however that the simple relation where A and B are constants gave a very much better fit to the experimental data , than the Andrade equation From the discussion we have given it is clear that fv is only a linear function of T if the expansion of the liquid is given by the linear equation and this is only true over small temperature ranges . |
| 29 | Thus any correctly terminated filter section with purely reactive elements perfectly passes signals over a certain range of frequency defined by the inequality ( 9.16 ) and appropriately known as the pass or transmission band but introduces a phase shift given by equation ( 9.15 ) in this frequency band . |
| 30 | Even as I was recording my triumphs over a hostile and alien world , I was also expressing such sentiments as , ‘ Oh , it 's not even worth writing down — the same , usual , dismal , tedious , boring story . ’ |