Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [adj] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sagging plank bookshelves covered most of the walls , with papers and magazines scattered over all the flat surfaces . |
| 2 | let me read those verses again , he says my flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill , and my flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth , there was no one to search or seek for them . |
| 3 | The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it . |
| 4 | The idea is to test the hardware and software associated with high-speed communications and investigate the kind of services that could be supplied over such a network . |
| 5 | The term ‘ formal interview ’ is used here to designate a type of interview in which there is an appreciable amount of control exercised over both the presentation of the questions ( stimuli ) and the recording of the answers ( responses ) . |
| 6 | Equally , an area on a graphics tablet can form an extremely flexible form of control ; for example , a diagram could be laid over such a tablet — the user could then see clearly all the control possibilities and by touching the correct part of the diagram he could control the program with ease . |
| 7 | It is doubtful that auctioneer John Marion had ever presided over such a disastrous start to an auction . |
| 8 | In a matter as fundamental as that of the constitution of the church , God could not have allowed that error should have persisted over such a period of time . |
| 9 | Durham was a very early example in Europe to be stone vaulted over such a wide span . |
| 10 | Since the cost of the highly controversial PWR programme would have been spread over all the stations built , it has now become considerably more expensive per reactor unit . |
| 11 | Once again , the intensity of contact spread over such a long time in the field makes this form of self-monitoring difficult to maintain , and there was also a general resistance from below to the management 's instruction . |
| 12 | Wars were never cheap , but they were fought over such a span that they became progressively more costly . |
| 13 | There were notices in Enderley Park warning strangers that the woods were private , but the villagers had always been allowed over all the estate . |
| 14 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 15 | This co-ordinate is sent over both the interfaces to the computer although , obviously , only one will be connected . |
| 16 | Under the system of primogeniture it will be known from childhood that one sibling will be privileged over all the rest ; by contrast partible inheritance requires a much greater degree of co-operation between siblings in adult life , especially if they inherit land or a firm which provides them with a common livelihood . |
| 17 | If it seems odd to devote a chapter to one book , however important and significant , it must be appreciated that numerically it is by far the most commonly found book and one which has been published over such a long period that the collector will see it more frequently than any other . |