Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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1 | As the above data suggest , residential services in Nottinghamshire not only expanded considerably over the period of the study but much of the new development took place in non-traditional residential services of the kind that CMHTs had been charged with promoting . |
2 | Building in opportunities for student progression is one of these , so that special courses , very necessarily built up over the last 15 years , do not become an end in themselves but rather a means towards mainstream education and training . |
3 | It 's pretty good here — they got photos of food all lit up over the counter so you can just point . |
4 | The number of applications for judicial review has none the less increased significantly over the past decade . |
5 | Although Coda has offered AS/400 software since the box was launched in 1988 , Turner says that sales have only taken off over the past two years , and it is now the group 's fastest-growing market . |
6 | Connelly 's haunting , purposeful vocals seep out of the cut at strange angles , spoken rather than sung , whilst the melody is bolstered by seductive female whispers that gently flit past , all knotted together over a boomy bass laden communication . |
7 | It 's perhaps improved somewhat over the years . |
8 | The simple service has not altered basically over the years . |
9 | It just lifted the roofing from the base of the stack and hen houses just scattered all over the place . |
10 | What is amazing , therefore , is that the agency that has the responsibility for this programme — Milton Keynes Development Corporation — has been largely wound down over the past few years and the remainder of it will cease to exist in 1992 . |
11 | Seaton has not grown much over the years due to lack of building land , though there are now new terrace-type cottages in the centre of the village . |
12 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
13 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
14 | To find out if PYY or bile salts were responsible for the inhibition of motility , each was separately infused intra-arterially over a two minute period , at the concentrations found in the venous efflu nts . |
15 | Less-damaging coolants than CFCs are being developed , and an international agreement signed in June 1990 will ensure that all CFCs are progressively phased out over the next few years . |
16 | The blackouts were already pulled down over the hall windows . |
17 | The radon concentrations are not distributed evenly over the village but show a clustering of very high radon concentrations in an area situated between two rivers ( area A , median ca=1868 Bq/m ) . |
18 | On my perch , arms wrapped tightly round the shrouds , I was alternately laid back over the deck and thrust out over the water . |
19 | As she sank by the bed , pressing her ear to Aunt Emily 's heart beneath its layers of lace , Aunt Emily 's little boat had already slipped quietly over the horizon . |
20 | A feeling she had not known in over a decade slipped through her body . |
21 | The staining , which was still most intense in the crypt region , was located in small granules not only near the microvillar membrane , but generally distributed all over the cytoplasm apically for the nucleus ( Fig 2F ) . |
22 | The number of women representatives had not increased dramatically over the 50 years since women first gained the vote on equal terms with men . |
23 | Stock holdings of chemicals have not increased significantly over the past 20 years and there are no plans for a major increase in them in the foreseeable future . |
24 | Although we may now know much more about the chemistry of the human brain , our capacity for thought has probably not changed much over the past five thousand years . |
25 | While the proportion of mentally ill among homeless people has probably not changed greatly over the past two decades , the absolute number has probably doubled in parallel with the number of homeless people . |
26 | The substance of building surveying has not changed appreciably over the years and while certain aspects of the more academic subjects of economics and law have been latterly introduced , they were there to prop up the whole discipline rather than to provide invaluable information . |
27 | And so nowadays , with the advent of high-speed telecommunications , satellites , and the formation of the World Met Organisation in particular , we now get the information that I 've already mentioned all over the world , very high-speed arrangements , and so we can now study the atmosphere all the way across . |
28 | In recent years British papers have been widely used all over the world . |
29 | Even three years after the accident , the shadow of Chernobyl still hung heavily over the proceedings . |
30 | In junction box wiring , the lighting cable goes from the consumer unit to a series of four-terminal junction boxes , each usually positioned roughly over the appropriate light switch ; cables lead from each junction box to a ceiling rose and to the switch . |