Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms .
2 The outer layer of the skin ( epidermis ) is made up of cells which are shed over a cycle of 28 days .
3 ‘ Well , Boyo , it 's either this or that , ’ said Taff , pointing to the alternative — a large piece of meat that had been roasted over a fire and looked most unappetising .
4 According to colleagues , whose judgment of distance had been honed over a day spent working on yardage charts , the sliver of wood was four centimetres long .
5 He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time .
6 Thousands of pounds have been collected over a number of years , resulting in items of new equipment that have each been featured in previous issues of Glenpatrick News .
7 ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose .
8 A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ .
9 No decision has been made over a youth coach , a position Hankin held before his sudden promotion to the manager 's office .
10 We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’
11 Thus the use of standard terms may promote certainty : the terms of the contract may be easily located and identified ; where the same terms are used over a period , the business and its trading partners will come to know their respective rights and obligations ; terms may be applied to resolve disputes and thus acquire " precedent " value .
12 The sailors are timed over a course of 500m , which needs to be flat water with an optimum sailing angle of 120–130 degrees to the wind .
13 As a result , drawings are phased over a number of years and are granted in accordance with the successful attainment of the agreed programme .
14 Jadeite objects have been recovered over a territory extending from Brittany to the Rhineland as well as over the British Isles as far north as north-east Scotland , far beyond the known sources of the raw material in Piedmont and Switzerland .
15 In addition to exploring the influences upon arrears , this approach will allow the course of arrears to be traced over a period of time .
16 If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output .
17 The single.step response can be examined over a range of forcing resistance values ( with appropriate changes of supply voltage to maintain constant phase current ) until a suitable response is obtained .
18 However , the emphasis has shifted in that the business is now controlled by the purchaser rather than the vendor and the earn out will be calculated over a period of perhaps several years following completion .
19 The chorus produced by hundreds of males can be heard over a mile away .
20 Closing the claw pulls the discs apart with a click that can be heard over a kilometre away .
21 His voice could be heard over a loudspeaker .
22 Text can be aligned over a range of columns by selecting the WYSI-WYG menu options : Text , Align , Centre and highlighting the relevant range of columns .
23 The centre frequency can be adjusted over a range of 400kHz to 250MHz , with direct frequency readout on a large 0.5in. liquid crystal display .
24 At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years .
25 Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information .
26 Slides would be built over a mound , so there 's no danger of children falling from a height .
27 This is allowed for in each instrument and in addition , measurements can be made over a range of temperatures ( 278 to 373 K ) .
28 The descent needs great care through its fall of 500 feet ; then the gradient eases and more confident progress can be made over a widening and declining moorland to the shore of Loch Kishorn .
29 Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time .
30 Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’
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