Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child who is not feeling well will stop eating temporarily and rapidly lose weight over a short period but this will be regained equally quickly once the child has recovered . |
| 2 | The department has expertise over a wide range of philosophical subjects , ranging from aesthetics to philosophy of science , philosophy of language and logic to moral philosophy , philosophy of mind to legal and political philosophy , and modern continental philosophy to the philosophy of religion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From here head south-west over a stony plateau , descending slightly to a large cairn . |
| 5 | Generally though a large demand has advantages over a low one . |
| 6 | The keys cover eleven types of payment and eight miscellaneous keys cover the major credit cards , all with programmable limitations to alert the operator when management authorisation must be given to accept vouchers over a certain limit . |
| 7 | On January 3 , 1979 , road transport drivers stopped work over a 25 per cent claim , paralysing dock movements , starving industry of supplies , putting thousands on short time and causing panic buying of food and threats of rationing . |
| 8 | In the years following the Second World War the European colonial powers retained control over a large number of military and naval bases among their colonies . |
| 9 | In many countries in the early stages of industrialization agriculture has been a major source of foodstuffs , exports and labour , but the degree to which agriculture in Japan contributed capital over a sustained period is unusual . |
| 10 | By adding the forcing resistance , with a proportional increase in supply voltage , the phase electrical time constant can be reduced , enabling operation over a wider speed range . |
| 11 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 12 | Between 1963 and 1965 the volcano Irazu in Costa Rica was more or less continuously active , with frequent explosions raining ash over a wide area and ruining the all-important coffee crop , but throughout this time no lavas were erupted and there was no significant change in the pattern of the eruption . |
| 13 | LIVERPOOL MP David Alton is spearheading a campaign urging action over a sickening report on child abuse . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A tangle of twisted metal is all that remains of the giant oil tank that fuelled the power station at the edge of the Bulmers factory site.It 's believed the man who died was welding a measuring gauge on top of the tank when it exploded , scattering debris over a wide area.The man died before he reached hospital.After the first explosion , there were further blasts creating a pall of smoke over Hereford.Bulmers Director Terry Watts was in an office nearby : |
| 16 | He wore the elegantly cut suit over a white shirt and an old Etonian tie . |
| 17 | Artegall keeps control and this allows victory over a savage force which appears much larger and more powerful than the knight . |
| 18 | Not only would the branch line locomotives be involved , but also The mainline workings , and it was envisaged that Chester ( Western ) shed would assume control over a new district and locomotives would carry copper-top chimneys wherever possible . |
| 19 | When phase three is finished , the East Lancashire Railway will haul passengers over a full twelve mile line and its rails will be available for freight trains to the continent via the Heywood extension — an exciting future for the society ! |
| 20 | ‘ There are several reasons why I ca n't work regularly for Riva , ’ I told Sally over a sea-bass starter and a strong Campari in L'Etoile . |
| 21 | This was causing concern over a possible acceleration in deforestation in the region as a whole . |
| 22 | He goes on to conclude that in large companies management frequently possesses power over a wide range of decisions , subject to constraints or partial control exercised by others in some decision areas . |
| 23 | On the centre pages I found a huge black and white photograph of a Hercules aircraft disgorging paratroopers over a large expanse of grassland somewhere in Africa . |
| 24 | There was n't much to it , just painted ply over a cardboard shell , and its lock went spinning across the room at the second kick . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The attempt to hound companies over a debatable interpretation of one day 's delay shows a particularly nasty form of small-mindedness . |
| 27 | The opportunity for the PLO to assert sovereignty over a specific territory arose through the Jordanian decision in July 1988 to sever administrative and legal links with the West Bank [ see p. 36120 ] . |
| 28 | She may have had problems over a similar product , or one from the same manufacturer , before . |
| 29 | They hope that a jobs package will go some way to defusing criticism over a perceived lack of direction on tackling the long dole queues . |
| 30 | The government had , on Sept. 15 , promised aid of F50,000,000 to help farmers over a difficult period . |