Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To test this particular application of Procedure Audit , a monitoring process was established in a section of thirty persons , and the administrative assistant briefed to record the number of queries referred back over a period of two months . |
| 2 | You 'll what you 'll end up with is different organisations managing houses scattered all over the city . |
| 3 | Formulation of the plan seems to be the result of a complex but highly structured process of consultations and meetings carried out over a six month period , and culminating in the ratification of the plan by the full Politburo . |
| 4 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 5 | The warning came after a meeting of Ards Borough Council last week in which Ulster Unionist Ronnie Ferguson put forward a motion that the council should offer free collection of waste to the Orange Order , which has halls dotted all over the borough . |
| 6 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 7 | The Dorset , Devon and Cornwall holiday areas benefited from the good summer weather and from the upgrading of pubs carried out over the last few years . |
| 8 | Until the move in the 1860s to a new building with adequate space , it was dispersed on shelves scattered all over the old one , with the books crowded three rows deep on the shelves so that only those in the front row were visible , and no catalogue of it existed . |
| 9 | As young models , Liz and Vanessa become friends and then rivals , their lives linked inextricably over the years . |
| 10 | The field they were in had British as well as German mines sown all over the place . |
| 11 | But even when there were teams of twenty or thirty workmen ‘ tripping over each other ’ , as Laura told a friend , with beds scattered all over the place and no curtains , ‘ it still has a very romantic atmosphere ’ . |
| 12 | There were American military bases scattered all over the Islands : they were there to protect the Pacific . |
| 13 | There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers . |
| 14 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 15 | The collection comes from almost fifty digs carried out over the last twenty years . |
| 16 | He produced two large atlases of estate maps ; the Stowe Atlas of thirty-three manuscript maps on vellum , detailing estates owned by the Grenville family around Kilkhampton , and the Lanhydrock Atlas of four large volumes containing 258 manuscript maps on vellum , compiled between 1694 and 1699 , of properties scattered widely over the county belonging to the Robartes family . |
| 17 | Amphibians have moist skins and keep them so with slime produced from small glands distributed all over the body . |
| 18 | His room 's a dustbin with lists of objects pinned all over the walls — no , I do n't know what it means . |
| 19 | There were bodies scattered all over the road , people lying on the pavement and propped against walls . |
| 20 | There were fields on either side with occasional stands of pine trees scattered unpredictably over the landscape . |
| 21 | There were bodies strewn all over the road . |
| 22 | and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation |
| 23 | Her only pleasure in it now was the notes left all over the place by her father : cheery instructions in a classical scholar 's hand , written on the gummed labels used by the more pious English government departments to get a second use out of old envelopes . |
| 24 | Then , slowly , he looked round the kitchen and the sitting room at the flowers painted all over the pale green walls , like a meadow in summer , at the dark green ivy crawling up the stairs and the bears and tigers and dragons decorating every piece of furniture . |
| 25 | An adult of 472 gastric emptying tests carried out over a 10 year period was performed to discover the reasons for requests from consultant clinicians , their anticipation of the results of tests , and the influence of the results upon the subsequent management of their patients . |
| 26 | But if noise is the point at which language buckles and culture fails , then you could argue that noise occurs in moments , tiny breakages and stresses dispersed all over the surface of music , all kinds of music . |
| 27 | Roos itself is far from any risk of erosion but a private garden in the village contains a sad relic : the rebuilt east windows of the church of Owthorne , one of many coastal parishes swept away over the centuries . |
| 28 | In the morning clouds boiled ominously over the distant Baltoro peaks as we cramponed to the start of the east ridge . |
| 29 | Water quality in Scottish rivers improved significantly over the period 1985-90 , according to the latest Water Quality Survey . |