Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] over a " in BNC.
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1 | Also , remote users can dial in over a modem and access a network 's drives — this is really useful if you have people on the road who need access to office files . |
2 | Fibrous tissue replaces this , the capillaries heal and contract down over a period of months to leave a linear scar . |
3 | Today certain people will not go on the station after dark , so the past tragedy lingers on over an entire railway complex . |
4 | There was Duncan McCrea , behind both of them , on his knees , head down over a ditch , hands deep in the water supporting his weight , retching up his guts . |
5 | I cut off the path proper and charged up over a dune and down its other side to where the service pipe carrying the water and electricity to the house appears out of the sand and crosses the creek . |
6 | To succeed , they have to be able to draw on their full resources , built up over a lifetime . |
7 | From the platform he looks out over a sea of clowns of all shapes and sizes filling the incongruously named Place St Maur des Fosses on the seafront at Bognor Regis . |
8 | Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond . |
9 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
10 | It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape . |
11 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |
12 | Let us take the example of a debt owed to Swannson-on-Wheels for haulage carried out over a four-week period ( throughout the United Kingdom ) on behalf of a computer manufacturer called Computex Ltd . |
13 | A single one-off move may be disruptive to overall business activities but at least the process is carried out over a short time . |
14 | Formulation of the plan seems to be the result of a complex but highly structured process of consultations and meetings carried out over a six month period , and culminating in the ratification of the plan by the full Politburo . |
15 | Bargaining is often carried out over a period of days , so it 's fortunate that a four- night B&B break at a three-star hotel near the market , is £219 in February and March . |
16 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
17 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | For maximum usefulness , these measurements must be carried out over a wide range of temperature . |
20 | An adult of 472 gastric emptying tests carried out over a 10 year period was performed to discover the reasons for requests from consultant clinicians , their anticipation of the results of tests , and the influence of the results upon the subsequent management of their patients . |
21 | If such doubts exist then an investigation is carried out over a maximum of four months to determine whether the merger should be prohibited or not . |
22 | The refurbishment scheme ‘ A Good Place to Live ’ will be carried out over a period of five years . |
23 | While TACP Design acted as architects , John Dansken and Purdie acted as Quantity Surveyors with Wimpey Construction managing the building work in the £5m project carried out over a five year period . |
24 | A particularly ambitious study of this kind , carried out over an entire geographic region , was that done by Ken Green , Rod Coombs , and K. Holroyd of the Tameside region , near Manchester ( Green et al. 1980 ) . |
25 | Manufacturing productivity rose by over a half between 1981 and 1991 . |
26 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
27 | In other cases , a partner 's contribution may be agreed to be collected in over a period of years out of his profit share . |
28 | Stamping their hopelessly outsize boots , they trudged in single file out of the gutted , white-stone church and slogged off over a ditch away from the barricade . |
29 | Er and it 's a force commitment it is n't I mean short of saving up over a period of years which we are not allowed to do |
30 | Another proof is taken and so the print is built up over a period of time . |