Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
2 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
3 | The varnish can also be successfully applied over a solvent-based stain if required . |
4 | The performance of the simple low-pass C-R filter is best displayed over a large range of frequency in a plot of versus . |
5 | Now if you 're not fit and you 're just getting over a cold now so there 's no way your fit you 're gon na be well an absolute disaster out there . |
6 | The sheet of paper is not stretched over a rubber roller or platen as it would be with an impact printer but a sheet of metal . |
7 | Of course , as has been shown , neither English nor humane education were simply " there " , but had been laboriously constructed over a long period . |
8 | The total number of pieces of gum used in the first day should be gradually reduced over a subsequent period of ten days . |
9 | Finally the nomadic Parthians were followed , two , centuries after Christ , by the Sassaniansm who Shahanshah , or King , still ruled over a vast area , including parts of what are now Georgia , Armenia , Afghanistan , Bahrain and Iraq . |
10 | Er this being gradually achieved over a three year phased expansion period . |
11 | This fact probably has over a fifty per cent accuracy . |
12 | He also presided over a Legislative Council which included a non-official minority . |
13 | The series is also spread over a broad area ( both instruments sharing the same serial form ) to cover the first twelve bars of the work . |
14 | Some people are also concerned that water beds are too heavy for some floors , but this is practically never the case as the weight of the water is evenly distributed over a large area . |
15 | Occasionally , one would flick snow at the other — although by now the snow was well trampled over a wide area . |
16 | There can be little doubt that , in terms of property development , the LDDC has indeed presided over a dramatic transformation in London 's Docklands . |
17 | There 's really no chance of getting bitten if your ferrets have been properly handled over a long period and are never scared . |
18 | The results of investigations in all patients referred by family practitioners to a medical gastroenterology outpatient clinic for the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia were prospectively collected over a 17 month period . |
19 | He had until recently presided over a cautious freeing of expression and politics . |
20 | This technique was highly dangerous and required the skills that Cheshire had certainly acquired over a long period , but was equally within Gibson 's exceptional abilities . |