Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it . |
| 2 | Most funding agencies are , understandably , unwilling to take on a commitment to pay for research over a period of perhaps twenty years or more . |
| 3 | If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months . |
| 4 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 5 | Chairman can I er suggest to these results of course over a period and I 'd like to see |
| 6 | The contrasts sound even more spectacular if the changes are expressed in terms of experience over a lifetime . |
| 7 | This case , in effect , turns on whether the family proceedings court can keep the power of review over a care order by making directions in relation to the care order . |
| 8 | They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months . |
| 9 | It created a wide divergence of attitude over a range of policy issues , generated acute mutual suspicion , and prevented either capital from providing a core around which the nation 's business community could coalesce . |
| 10 | If the flat only has one entrance/exit ( which it will because it is not on the ground floor ) , it should have a fire escape , or some means of escape over a balcony or roof . |
| 11 | She waited to see if he would explain anything about himself , but he simply sipped his cold beer in silence , idly watching a group of children playing see-saw with a plank of wood over a tree stump . |
| 12 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 13 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 14 | ‘ Now all she needs is a bit of work over a mile and a quarter on Tuesday and she 'll be ready for Longchamp . |
| 15 | The proposal is to guarantee a place on ET , or any other training , education , pre-employment course , for those who have been out of work over a set period of time . |
| 16 | A period of under-provision over a number of years is likely to be reflected on the shelves in subject gaps or in the poor physical condition of stock . |
| 17 | The group says that the survival of evidence over a period of years defies expectations and improves the prospects for enforcement of the recently signed international Chemical Weapons Convention ( see Nature 361 , 105 ; 1993 ) . |
| 18 | An innkeeper , as we have seen , is under a duty to provide reasonable refreshment if so required and accommodation to a traveller ; hence , the innkeeper has a right of lien over a traveller 's property as well as over a guests ' to ensure that the traveller 's bill is duly paid . |
| 19 | It related to an incident last August in Manchester Road Swindon when Mr Neilsen threw a bucket of water over a prostitute , Rachel Symonds . |
| 20 | Melt the plain chocolate with three tablespoons of water over a pan of hot water . |
| 21 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 22 | Instead of staying with me as he 'd planned , he rents this ancient pile , miles from anywhere , just so he can keep an eye on this stupid female who seems to have got herself into all sorts of trouble over a piece of land — ’ |
| 23 | It provides a rather more formal learning structure , and given the price of beer over a session can probably be had at a similar cost . |
| 24 | 4 Entry The right for the Tenant and all persons expressly or by implication authorised by the Tenant to enter upon other parts of the Centre and ( if any ) the Adjoining Property to carry out works to the Premises where such works would otherwise not be possible , or may be possible but rendered more expensive than they would otherwise be if this right was available The problem of access over a neighbour 's land has been greatly alleviated by the passage of the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 which sets out a procedure whereby a person may obtain a court order permitting access to a neighbour 's property in order to carry out works to protect , repair or maintain their property in circumstances where the neighbour refuses consent to such access . |
| 25 | Examination of the wreckage showed that the pressure dome at the rear of the passenger cabin had ruptured from the bottom where there was substantial evidence of corrosion over a distance of more than 18 inches . |
| 26 | The sounds are the same as those of daylight , yet somehow the night magnifies and sharpens the creak of a yielding block , the sigh of air over a shroud , the stretching of a sail , the hiss of water sliding sleek against the hull , the curl of a quarter-wave falling away , and the thump as a wave strikes the cutwater to be sheared into two bright slices of whiteness . |
| 27 | Typology is the study of the development of particular types of artefact over a period of time . |
| 28 | There are also some local variations in the measurements and because of this reliable detection of growth over a period of half a day seems unlikely . |
| 29 | On the whole his face gave little away , unlike Mr Kinnock 's , where emotion raced like the shadows of cloud and splashes of sunshine over a landscape . |
| 30 | Studies of internal friction of polystyrene over a temperature range from near absolute zero to 200°C or more show four distinct " peaks " or regions of energy absorption . |