Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly likely to apply to multilateral contracts ; ie , where one party exercises powers over a number of others . |
| 2 | In Musgrove v. Pandelis , the plaintiff occupied rooms over a garage and let part of the garage to the defendant who kept a car there . |
| 3 | Even approaching his workzone was hazardous , as one had to pick one 's way through suspended diving gear and disassembled bicycles over a floor awash with chartpaper . |
| 4 | Ideally , as the names imply , a low-pass filter passes signals up to some limiting frequency but not above it , a high-pass filter passes signals down to some limiting frequency but not below it , a band-pass filter passes signals over a range of frequencies but not outside it and a band-stop filter only passes signals outside a range of frequencies . |
| 5 | ‘ In every speech I make , I try to communicate to the audience why I think they should bother to listen to what I 've got to say , ’ he told delegates over a video link between London and Torquay . |
| 6 | So , taking account of the polonium , local people relying mainly on local milk , meat and vegetables could expect doses over a period of a couple of years of about 4 to 15 rems ; more incidentally , than people at Hiroshima within 2 km of the bomb . |
| 7 | The move followed disagreements over a decision to increase the price of vegetable oils . |
| 8 | Usage reduces stocks over a period of time . |
| 9 | Efforts to end the 12-year civil war prompted the government in May to renew its call for a ceasefire [ see p. 37453 ] ; in June it proposed a peace conference , after reports that the United States and the Soviet Union had failed to resolve differences over a transition process [ see p. 37669 ] . |
| 10 | Four countries ( El Salvador , Honduras , Morocco and Congo , with total foreign debts of US$30,500 million ) took advantage of the move , agreeing to packages spreading repayments over a period of 15 years — instead of the 10 years previously allowed by the Club . |
| 11 | This openness and variation in level of the track , now giving views over a mile or so of green tree-crowns , now limiting the sky and showing on every side a steeply climbing hillside of columns , would have made their walking pleasant had it not been for the unseasonable heat of the day . |
| 12 | Last week a British psychiatrist was convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting patients over a period of 12 years . |
| 13 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 14 | In a public or university library which does not have subject specialists on its staff — or even in those that do — this places an intolerably heavy burden of responsibility on the individual 's judgement , and it is unlikely that any one person called upon to make weeding decisions over a spectrum of subject fields will on the basis of judgement alone achieve a consistent rate of ‘ correct ’ decision making . |
| 15 | Observations were intended to be made of stream channel changes , mass movement , vegetation changes , precipitation , reservoir sedimentation , and dendrochronology , and the intention to maintain measurements over a decade or more has been realized at some sites ( e.g. Leopold and Emmett , 1965 ) . |
| 16 | This is perhaps the most common format , where prospective purchasers are asked to make offers over a guide price , minimum sale price or are advised of a range of prices within which an offer may be acceptable . |
| 17 | Thus schools which are having difficulty attracting pupils over a couple of years may find that they are powerless to avoid progressive deterioration in their position . |
| 18 | Management from Caldaire have already held talks over a Government clause which stalled negotiations on the future of the firm 's Grange Road site . |