Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves . |
| 2 | The keys cover eleven types of payment and eight miscellaneous keys cover the major credit cards , all with programmable limitations to alert the operator when management authorisation must be given to accept vouchers over a certain limit . |
| 3 | The attempt to hound companies over a debatable interpretation of one day 's delay shows a particularly nasty form of small-mindedness . |
| 4 | The opportunity for the PLO to assert sovereignty over a specific territory arose through the Jordanian decision in July 1988 to sever administrative and legal links with the West Bank [ see p. 36120 ] . |
| 5 | The government had , on Sept. 15 , promised aid of F50,000,000 to help farmers over a difficult period . |
| 6 | He slipped it into his pocket , and turned to help Dimity over a low sooty wall which was all that was left of her kitchen . |
| 7 | Political power was decentralised in the sense that warriors were able to claim rights over a local territory and enforce their own brand of justice by means of military might . |
| 8 | Start by making a list of the areas in which you think you might be able to generate coverage over a three-month period . |
| 9 | The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) . |
| 10 | Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey . |
| 11 | The following week the Environment Secretary flies to Luxembourg to voice reservations over a planned EC tax on fossil fuels . |
| 12 | He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area . |
| 13 | Now on a scholarship at the University of Hawaii , young Michael was first to break par over a sun-drenched Belvoir Park course when he posted a splendid 4-birdie 70 in this qualifying competition . |
| 14 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 15 | Iron fittings could replace wooden components gradually , allowing major alterations to take place over a long period . |
| 16 | It had to take place over a long period , in the face of a prodigious number of uncontrolled variables which were likely to confuse the outcome . |
| 17 | The current project is scheduled to take place over a 5 year period , with a budget set at 500k . |
| 18 | The length of time it has been operation will determine how much money she gets back , but it is unlikely to have made much of a profit , because endowments are designed to make money over a long period of time . |
| 19 | Participating gastroenterologists were asked to enrol eligible duodenal ulcer patients consecutively but none was permitted to enrol more than seven patients since the aim was to recruit patients over a short a time period as possible while ensuring that they were also drawn from many different parts of the country . |