Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The budget need not be balanced every year but should be balanced over the trade cycle , with surpluses in booms and deficits in slumps . |
| 2 | An attempt should be made over the next few years to answer this question in the light of experience and experimentation . |
| 3 | At least two inches of washed gravel ( washed means swilling repeatedly in a large bucket until the water runs completely clear ) should be placed over the plate — allow 10lb per square foot . |
| 4 | If undergravel filtration is used , a fine polythene gauze of a fine-mesh cloth should be placed over the filter-plates prior to putting the layer of clay . |
| 5 | Some topics will inevitably lean more towards some of these elements than others , but a balance should be achieved over the whole of Key Stage 2 ( hence the need for whole school planning for history ) . |
| 6 | Before the rabbit is taken out of the net , another net should be set over the hole in case other rabbits bolt . |
| 7 | If the holder has an option to redeem at a premium , that premium should be accrued over the period to the earliest date at which the option can be exercised . |
| 8 | The general rule set out in para 80 of SSAP 24 is that ‘ variations from the regular cost should be allocated over the remaining expected service lives of current employees in the scheme ’ . |
| 9 | It would seem that Madam ( please call me ‘ Falklands ’ ) Thatcher has decided that 145 local tax collection offices should be closed over the course of the next four years , with the loss of 3000 Inland Revenue jobs . |
| 10 | When using French technique the axe is held normally in the uphill hand for support and extra security , but it is important not to lean on it and into the hill ; your weight must be kept over the crampons . |
| 11 | I have attached a paper prepared for this which highlights many of the areas in which the EEB believes progress must be made over the next six months . |
| 12 | control must be maintained over the dissemination of information . |
| 13 | Under U.S. GAAP accounting for goodwill as an offset against shareholders ' equity is not permitted ; rather goodwill must be amortized over the period of its expected useful life , subject to a maximum write-off period of 40 years , through the income statement . |
| 14 | For example , a Roman burial alongside a road leading from a Roman town may originally have been deliberately buried , but as the town expanded and the burial was forgotten , a house might be built over the site . |
| 15 | The windows over the shop were discreetly curtained so it was likely that whatever Dobles there might be lived over the shop . |
| 16 | and that there is no other regular ministry held there by any other denomination of Christians whereby any adequate surveillance might be held over the moral and religious state of the community , and that consequently the sins of intemperance , Sabbath desecration , and the other vices that follow in their train have become sadly prevalent and daily increasing . |
| 17 | 1 In law and in theory , the individual minister was , in effect , the same as the Department : he was responsible for everything that went on in his office ( whether he knew about it or not ) and might be hauled over the coals and forced to resign if Parliament disapproved of his personal acts , the general conduct of his Department , or acts done ( or left undone ) in the name of his departmental officials . |
| 18 | Alternately , a piece of light green paper might be glued over the hardboard . |
| 19 | But in three short years the following essential features of creative sound were worked out for the first time : cut-and-splice sound editing ; dubbing mute shots ( i.e. providing library sounds for completely silent bits of film ) ; quiet cameras ; ‘ talkback ’ and other intercom systems ; ‘ boom ’ microphones ( so the mike could be placed over the actor 's head and moved as necessary ) ; equalization ; track-bouncing ; replacement of dialogue ( including alternative languages ) ; filtering ( for removing traffic noise , wind noise , or for simulating telephone conversations ) ; busbars for routing controlled amounts of foldback or reverberation ; three-track recording ( music , effects , and dialogue , any of which could be changed as necessary ) ; automatic volume limiters ; and synchronous playback ( for dance or mimed shots ) . |
| 20 | The new cabinet could be finalised over the weekend following the crisis produced by the resignation of the prime minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , on Thursday , the source said . |
| 21 | The new cabinet could be finalised over the weekend , he said . |
| 22 | An end-quarter exchange rate is used as interest lies in the gains that could be made over the period in which the yield differential held on average . |
| 23 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 24 | There is not a public pathway along the river to the south , but if there was , the bridges built for the barge houses could be seen over the drainage dykes . |
| 25 | The report , compiled by the Washington-based International Institute for Energy Conservation , says that a total of £1.2 trillion could be saved over the next 40 years if the Bank provided adequate support for energy efficiency in transport , industry , power stations and the domestic market . |
| 26 | The English tenure of Ponthieu , moreover , was a further means whereby vigilance could be exercised over the affairs of France , and Edward I retained a permanent staff of lawyers at Paris who dealt with appeals from the comté to the Parlement . |
| 27 | If you like thinking about capacity for information storage ( I do ) , you can imagine the enormous number of different patterns of flaws that could be created over the surface of a crystal . |
| 28 | As a precaution , since cold iron is repulsive to fairies , scissors or nails could be suspended over the crib to keep the baby safe . |
| 29 | Angle iron can be used to cap the side rails for additional protection and a hood could be suspended over the fire to draw off the smoke if desired . |
| 30 | Of this total up to SDR39,240,000 ( $53,000,000 ) could be drawn over the following 19 months to support the government 's 1991-92 economic austerity programme . |