Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company Patrons have committed their organisations to give the association substantial , planned support over a number of years . |
| 2 | If tax is owing and payment on the due date is impossible , the Inland Revenue will discuss payment over a period of time to meet the liability ; and any taxpayer who is in difficulty in paying his or her tax should contact the Inland Revenue at the earliest opportunity to discuss how the difficulty might be resolved . |
| 3 | The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example . |
| 4 | Transferred to the realm of gender relations , this would describe the state of affairs in which a woman has influence over a man and manipulates his discourses , but is allowed this power only as long as she agrees not to flaunt it and remains in the position of silent partner with no autonomous voice . |
| 5 | Op has actor over a barrel |
| 6 | By a two-to-one vote , a good teacher is seen as someone who has control over a class . |
| 7 | But this did little to consolidate control over a country claimed but not subdued and when Duke Philip of Burgundy broke from his alliance with the English to pledge support for Charles VII at Arras in 1435 , the days of English rule in France were numbered . |
| 8 | If whisking by hand , place bowl over a pan of hot water . |
| 9 | He had spilt wax over a reproduction of Fabre 's portrait of the Countess . |
| 10 | Difficulty may also be experienced in obtaining reliable accounting information and thus in establishing control over a company 's activities . |
| 11 | One of his mates took the dented tube away from him and opened it , splashing froth over a window . |
| 12 | A witness said : ‘ Two engines cut out and the plane started to eject fuel over a lake as it lost height . |
| 13 | He 'd had trouble over a dock strike in France , and had some perishable cargoes which he could n't deliver . |
| 14 | THUGS poured petrol over a schoolboy and tried to set him alight after he refused to go shoplifting . |
| 15 | CLUBS are seeing red over a shortage of referees in the KY Youth League . |
| 16 | Once a year , usually in September , the BKA holds its convention and A.G.M. which takes place over a weekend . |
| 17 | The result is that melting takes place over a range of temperatures , and this range is a useful indication of sample crystallinity . |
| 18 | Centrepiece of the design is the tall , rectangular flat diaphragm , which , produces all the treble information , and the midband area above 200Hz ( in fact there 's a slow handover which takes place over a matter of octaves ) . |
| 19 | As weak springs can only stored a fraction of the potential energy that a strong spring can hold , the remainder is lost as heat and if the change from a strong to a weak spring takes place over a period of time , equivalent to the observation time , then the energy loss is detected as mechanical damping . |
| 20 | Instead , a number of small changes in status and recognitions of the progress towards adult status takes place over a number of years . |
| 21 | On average , a body is injected with approximately 12–16 pints of the one and a half per cent or two per cent solution and this takes place over a time period of approximately one to two hours . |
| 22 | This last feature is quite a nice touch , because it would enable control over a mono mix of your amp 's signal for monitoring purposes . |
| 23 | It was a bit summery for the weather , but had the same small waist as Xanthe 's tailored number , in a kind of light-green figured gauze over a satin underskirt , with a broad belt and wide lighter-coloured lapels , with a big perspex buckle like bottle glass . |
| 24 | A wooden seat with an appropriately sized hole over a bucket , and a container of earth with a shovel was all its furnishing . |
| 25 | The World Food Programme ( WFP ) and the Government of Vietnam have reached agreement over a project to reforest the country 's coastal areas . |
| 26 | However , all these policies specifically exclude loss or damage caused by agricultural or industrial operations or any gradually operating cause , e.g. an oil heater which emits smoke over a period of time causing decoration to become discoloured . |
| 27 | Spread is slow and extension may take place over a period of months , even years . |
| 28 | When considering the number of units of output produced per worker in a factory , it is relatively easy to consider efficiency over a period of time . |
| 29 | It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it . |
| 30 | ‘ Once when the Yard needed advice over a fraud case , and once over a theft ! ’ |