Example sentences of "out over a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 This , to his great astonishment , caused a considerable disturbance ; and when he inquired what the people meant by putting themselves out over a black man , an Englishman who was passing answered : ‘ Well , perhaps you do n't know it , but you have just thrown one of Her Majesty 's judges out of the train . ’ ’
3 Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore .
4 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 .
5 This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments .
6 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 .
7 While TACP Design acted as architects , John Dansken and Purdie acted as Quantity Surveyors with Wimpey Construction managing the building work in the £5m project carried out over a five year period .
8 They left the marketplace for a maze of streets and eventually came to a large stone two-storeyed house with a timbered roof , its exquisite carved eaves jutting out over a small courtyard beneath .
9 Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical .
10 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 .
11 Let us take the example of a debt owed to Swannson-on-Wheels for haulage carried out over a four-week period ( throughout the United Kingdom ) on behalf of a computer manufacturer called Computex Ltd .
12 The house sits snugly , 275 feet above sea level , with a view southwards out over a wide expanse of undulating country to hills beyond .
13 For maximum usefulness , these measurements must be carried out over a wide range of temperature .
14 A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact .
15 The tide was far out over a wide plain of sand but you could see its many colours silvering towards those reaches where sky and horizon misted together .
16 The counterfeit cheques , for sums between £20 and £60 , were made out over a five-month period from March last year .
17 Now that 's different you 'll not get em to cancel it but to get them to spin it out over a longer period is a possibility and that 's what we 're gon na be working towards .
18 The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear .
19 There is no , if you like , no mileage to be gained in two important Local Authorities falling out over a particular issue .
20 A single one-off move may be disruptive to overall business activities but at least the process is carried out over a short time .
21 Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year .
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