Example sentences of "be [adj] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range of this regular pulsation is only 0–02 per cent of the Sun 's radius , but it has been stable over the full 250-year span covered by the various sets of observations . |
| 2 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 3 | More than 7,000 jobs were moved in 1989 and almost 20,000 more are due over the next two years with the government in the van , say researchers Jones Lang Wootton in a survey published yesterday . |
| 4 | Further announcements are due over the next two years . |
| 5 | In fact the screening rate of women in the excluded group has been low over the last 20 years — some 50–80 per cent of older women have never had a smear . |
| 6 | The Government 's commitment to the coal industry has been clear over the past 10 years or more ; they have also shown their commitment to a successful future for the industry . |
| 7 | Some modest amendments to these modules are likely over the next few months , as a result of full consultation with centres . |
| 8 | In general , the sale was characterised by more trade bidding than has been evident over the past year , while competitive bidding between private collectors was responsible for the morning 's most surprising result : £21,000 ( $31,500 ; est. £6,000–8,000 ) for Joe Tilson 's ‘ Ziggurat 1967 ’ ( lot 79 ) |
| 9 | We hope that you will then be able to travel around Wales to see some of the issues with which we are concerned over the following two days . |
| 10 | Both the scale and rate of change affecting the operation of the company have been dramatic over the last nine months . |
| 11 | The product has proved to be stable over the anticipated lifespan of the building and has advantages over alternative methods of roof insulation , namely , energy efficiency , ease of installation and speed of erection . |
| 12 | Kelly chose not to be specific over the precise areas for concern other than to point to bad results . |
| 13 | It is intended to identify specific issues for attention within a comprehensive national agenda of issues of science and technology policy thought likely to be prominent over the next 10-15 years . |
| 14 | No-one knows whether it is the vast crowds — around 120,000 will be present over the next three days — or the mere hint that spring is really in the air again that motivates them , but Festival form certainly counts . |
| 15 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 16 | Only John and Nora could see it , for only they knew of the terrible demand that would sooner or later be made on their resources — and it was going to be well over the hundred thousand that John had estimated . |
| 17 | Despite an improvement in overseas business activity in the financial services sector in the UK it is likely to be flat over the next quarter , according to the latest CBI/Coopers Deloitte quarterly survey of financial services . |
| 18 | Of this total , SDR660,600,000 would be available over the next three years under an extended arrangement . |
| 19 | Of this , SDR49,500,000 would be available over the next 12 months under a standby arrangement and SDR81,500,000 would be available over a three-year period under an ESAF arrangement . |
| 20 | On Jan. 7 , 1991 , the IMF approved resources for Czechoslovakia totalling SDR1,250.8 million ( about US$1,783 million ) , of which SDR619.5 million ( about US$883 million ) would be available over the next 14 months under a standby arrangement . |
| 21 | While Mr Parkinson will be anxious over the next few days to emphasise the benefits of BR 's £3 billion investment programme , it is clear passengers will be paying increasingly more towards new rolling stock and equipment . |
| 22 | Extra supplies over and above what has been contracted from Algeria will be necessary over the next decade , partly due to increased demand and partly due to possibly reduced supply from the Netherlands , this contract running out in 1992 . |
| 23 | It will be necessary over the next decade or two to provide countries like Kenya with much more economic support for their rural populations , particularly those adjacent to the national parks and wilderness areas , while an effective long-term strategy for sustainable development is worked out . |
| 24 | Like shape , scale can not be correct over the whole map , but some map projections can be constructed so that either the lines of latitude or the lines of longitude , or certain lines of latitude and longitude , have the scale correct . |
| 25 | Yet such sociological explanations for men 's reticence at reporting abnormal symptoms only serves to underline the absence of a national prostate screening campaign , particularly so since a simple blood test has been available over the last four years which can detect the likely presence of prostate cancer . |
| 26 | ( Riding is a fine way of seeing the interior of the country , and the high-stepping Icelandic horses are tireless over the difficult terrain . ) |
| 27 | Nevertheless , echo sounding shows that fish are abundant over the entire surface to a depth of at least 30 m . |
| 28 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 29 | All the inverts that you are considering are suitable over the long term , but do steer clear of hard corals . |
| 30 | We can distinguish two main kinds : ( a ) an emphasis on the ‘ informing spirit ’ of a whole way of life , which is manifest over the whole range of social activities but is most evident in ‘ specifically cultural ’ activities — a language , styles of art , kinds of intellectual work ; and ( b ) an emphasis on ‘ a whole social order ’ within which a specifiable culture , in styles of art and kinds of intellectual work , is seen as the direct or indirect product of an order primarily constituted by other social activities . |