Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 2 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 3 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 4 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 5 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 6 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 7 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 8 | Other advantages proposed for speech are that the hands are free to perform other tasks and that communication may be carried out over a standard telephone line without the requirement for additional hardware . |
| 9 | For maximum usefulness , these measurements must be carried out over a wide range of temperature . |
| 10 | The refurbishment scheme ‘ A Good Place to Live ’ will be carried out over a period of five years . |
| 11 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 12 | it is n't necessary , well it is the same as saying it is n't true , it is n't necessary er because this will be built up over a period and it will be for er the Government in all the normal ways in the public expenditure round to decide how much goes into the passenger franchises and through that therefore into the Briti the Rail Track investment . |
| 13 | In other cases , a partner 's contribution may be agreed to be collected in over a period of years out of his profit share . |
| 14 | The implication of this three-year transition is that the existing assessment and examination system will be phased out over a number of years , as courses are transferred to the new system . |
| 15 | 2.3 The implication of this three-year transition is that the existing assessment and examination system will be phased out over a number of years , as courses are transferred to the new system . |
| 16 | Advisers say the change — aimed at meeting European Community moves towards equality for the sexes — should be phased in over a 15-year period . |
| 17 | However , this is not expected to happen for some time and even when reform is introduced , the probability is that it will be phased in over a number of years . |
| 18 | Any new planting was designed to be phased in over a period of years , planting schemes having to take account of the need to create a distinctive landscape for the immediate future as well as for the long term . |
| 19 | SCOTVEC 's new system of Advanced Courses will be phased in over a three year period . |
| 20 | Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed . |
| 21 | The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 . |
| 22 | This level of pay was never conceived of as being a realizable objective for a statutory minimum wage that would be brought in over a short period of time . |
| 23 | This will be cut back over a period of time . |
| 24 | In some programs files have to be inverted overnight and this requires the microcomputer to be switched on over a long period of time . |
| 25 | The installation of pre-payment meters is one reason why the number of disconnections has fallen , but more important is the fact that the regional electricity companies , under the terms of their licence , have to approve a code of conduct with the Office of Electricity Regulation and must offer customers who are in genuine difficulties a payment plan so that debt can be paid off over a period . |
| 26 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 27 | The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year . |
| 28 | The lips were drawn back over a row of small pointed teeth in a ghastly grimace , a shriek of pain or terror . |
| 29 | It was difficult to see exactly what she looked like , for she and Rupert were bending down over a table examining something together . |
| 30 | A single one-off move may be disruptive to overall business activities but at least the process is carried out over a short time . |