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

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1 The three central heating pump chambers are equally well-disguised by building over each a raised plinth , topped by a removable slab .
2 My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement .
3 Any mother would know if their daughters were lying over such a major thing .
4 This five-fold ( pentameral ) symmetry seems a peculiar number to be present over such a wide range of organisms .
5 Over such a wide range of forms of mining and manufacturing , the experience of labour was inevitably varied .
6 No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior .
7 He says having been there , the crash is n't over such a wide area as we thought at first .
8 Durham was a very early example in Europe to be stone vaulted over such a wide span .
9 The field of education is as wide as that of religion , and it would be futile to attempt to particularise over such a vast subject .
10 Therefore I would say a poem such as " I wandered lonely as a cloud " is not a good subject for one picture — because the poet can jump around over such a vast expanse and bring image after image to mind :
11 The head of the task force , hydrologist John Verhoeven , warned that " there is nothing to fight it over such a vast range . "
12 The fact that the White groups were spread out over such a vast area caused the lack of communications .
13 They are simply too expensive to run and maintain over such a long distance .
14 Once again , the intensity of contact spread over such a long time in the field makes this form of self-monitoring difficult to maintain , and there was also a general resistance from below to the management 's instruction .
15 Inevitably , over such a long period , I became less institutionalized , more able to function as an individual in relation to belief and action and not merely accept the organization 's definition of things ; and this is a profoundly un-police like state of affairs !
16 But the broad package of interventions and centralization over such a long period of time surely outstrips that carried out by any previous government .
17 Added to his faithful representation was his own flavour of the area which no one else has been able to maintain over such a long period .
18 If it seems odd to devote a chapter to one book , however important and significant , it must be appreciated that numerically it is by far the most commonly found book and one which has been published over such a long period that the collector will see it more frequently than any other .
19 As the ITVA 's rules on comparative whiteness claims in detergent ads have tightened , the ( by now ) several Persil products have not always been able to use this theme , but its development over such a long period was an astonishing piece of consistency by client management and virtuosity by the agency .
20 ‘ It is beyond belief this could happen over such a petty row .
21 She told me not to make a fuss over such a small thing .
22 Even contemplating walking out over such a small matter may seem ridiculous , but within the context of that small world , the dispute was a major one .
23 Perhaps the main question is whether the market in its present state can absorb such a wealth of material over such a short period .
24 Few companies receive ISO9002 at the first attempt , particularly over such a short period , and it reflects further major business progress .
25 Tenants for short-term leases are generally reluctant to spend money on fitting out , because they are unable to write off their expenditure over such a short term .
26 Public concern about war over such a trivial issue led Eisenhower to lower the temperature by offering to request a withdrawal of at least part of Chiang 's garrisons on the islands in return for a cease-fire .
27 And over such a trivial thing . ’
28 The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period .
29 Yanto was also having second thoughts about getting into a fight over such a silly incident , and realised it was caused as much by jealousy as anything else .
30 It is doubtful that auctioneer John Marion had ever presided over such a disastrous start to an auction .
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