Example sentences of "over a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A plate of dates was produced and we threw the stones over a low wall to three black goats who munched them mournfully . |
| 2 | THE VALLEY OF THE River Lune between Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale is bounded on the east by a lofty range of hills forming a continuous high skyline broken only at one point where a pronounced gap indicates the narrow cutting of Barbondale , carrying a lonely road over a low watershed to Dentdale . |
| 3 | Now Stokes 's theorem relates an integral over a closed surface to another integral over the volume enclosed : . |
| 4 | It also prevents one from churning out the same stuff of conversation over a long period to different people ( to use words at people ) which is using those people as hard reflective surfaces and not , as I feel properly , soft digestive reflective surfaces . |
| 5 | Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson , I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies . |
| 6 | Descent is made southwards over a pathless moor to a depression containing a small tarn and a wall that rises to the next height , Swarth Fell . |
| 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 | Audible and visual warnings will attract workers ' attention over a wide area to a potential or actual hazard . |
| 9 | This is bond paying a regular ( usually semi-annual ) , fixed coupon over a fixed period to maturity or redemption , with the return of principal ( i.e. the par or nominal value of the bond ) on the maturity date . |
| 10 | Britain is protesting to Germany over a planned mission to Baghdad by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt . |
| 11 | On 7 June 1972 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ) issued a standard on asbestos exposure at work which took effect over a four-year period to 1 July 1976 . |
| 12 | Hungary and Czechoslovakia have reached a deadlock in discussions over a hydro-electric dam to be built on the River Danube , which according to environmentalists and scientists , presents serious hazards . |
| 13 | Either from the North Cockerington side along the towpath of the Louth to Tetney Navigation Canal and over a wooden bridge to the Yew lined churchyard path , or from the Alvingham village side and , equal as novel , through a farmyard , loudly alive with the grunting and squealing of pigs in their sites . |
| 14 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |