Example sentences of "over a [adj] part [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | like on i well no , no , you have to , you the net has to fall over a certain part of the creature . |
| 2 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 3 | Anarchy was over and there now began the reign of one of the strongest kings ever to rule England , one whose territories and titles gave him authority over a great part of north-western Europe . |
| 4 | A Hamitic people , they established themselves over a great part of Shoa and even pushed northwards along the escarpment for some hundred and fifty miles beyond Dessie . |
| 5 | Elsewhere ( as along the western seaboard of North America ) plates were converging and being subducted , but over a great part of the earth 's surface , and my part of it in particular , the plates were gently moving apart as the Atlantic formed from its median ridge . |
| 6 | Many fossil distributions , of very varied ages , imply remarkably uniform conditions over a wide part of the earth 's surface . |
| 7 | A healthy rise of pressure over the UK on the 30th and 31st heralded a complete change of weather type and the resultant anticyclone of 1040 millibars central pressure gave over six hours of bright sunshine and calm conditions over a good part of the mainland . |
| 8 | Despite all these inroads into the royal forest , the hated system was enforced after 1227 over a large part of England . |
| 9 | A large area , part wooded and part a rocky summit , situated just north of Broombriggs on B.591 , providing a fine viewpoint over a large part of the Midlands . |
| 10 | The sound of these great explosions was audible over a large part of the Earth 's surface : at Elsey Creek in South Australia , 3,224 kilometres from Krakatoa , the noise was loud enough to wake sleeping people , who described it as being similar to the sound of rock being blasted . |
| 11 | In the succeeding months it became plain that the determination of American leaders to play the key role in shaping the new world order was to clash with the equally determined insistence of the Russians that their interests were of paramount importance over a large part of the globe . |
| 12 | The chief argument for putting the Callovian in the Upper Jurassic was that this stage was markedly transgressive Over a large part of the Soviet Union and that , therefore , this was a natural break such as one might expect at a major stratigraphical boundary . |
| 13 | This dispersive approach is different from that pursued in France where the nuclear industry has been maintained as an integrated entity with mixed government/private ownership but with Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique , AEA 's equivalent , in a commanding position over a large part of it . |
| 14 | From up here he had a panoramic view over a large part of the course and as he was in the last row could see behind as well as forward . |
| 15 | Traffic experts are predicting jams and misery over a large part of the region because of a bridge which is suffering from structural corrosion . |
| 16 | Sir , today you have before you what I believe is the most important village still existing close to York , which has , over a considerable part of its area , extant at this day a medieval character and feel . |