Example sentences of "is [vb pp] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A retaining wall of loose bricks or stones separate the bog garden from the pool proper and retains the peaty mixture which is placed over a layer of gravel . |
| 2 | A massive , handsome monument of granite is placed over the grave . |
| 3 | Various techniques to promote reflux while imaging have been attempted , such as abdominal cuffing , in which a binder is placed over the abdomen and the pressure is increased by inflating it with air . |
| 4 | We may extend this metaphor further by suggesting that our everyday experience of stress is rather like a tap which is placed over the glass and into which it drips drops of stress . |
| 5 | If a piece of ordinary glass is heated over a gas flame , it softens easily , and eventually the heated part will gather itself into a drop and fall to the ground . |
| 6 | In many cases , a shrine is erected over the anthill and women can be seen lighting candles and praying to the Deity within . |
| 7 | that early intervention is the best way of coping with it , and certainly it demands that parents and friends and teachers , and people concerned are aware of any change which is sustained over a period because by early intervention then you 're probably coping with the problem rather than the eating disorder , because the problem is there before the eating disorder . |
| 8 | For all bookings made within 8 weeks of departure , the holiday is confirmed as soon as a verbal confirmation is given over the telephone or your travel agent confirms the booking via Viewdata , and therefore if you subsequently cancel your booking , cancellation charges as shown in condition ( 9 ) apply . |
| 9 | In such cases , the tonic syllable is the syllable on which the pitch movement of the tone begins , but that pitch movement is completed over the rest of the tone unit ( i.e. the tail ) . |
| 10 | Travel agents and tour operators often make back to back reservations which means that certain accommodation is booked over a period of time and as one group of guests depart another group takes their place . |
| 11 | ‘ Reversionary ’ bonus is added over the term of the policy and once added becomes part of the guaranteed benefits and can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term . |
| 12 | ‘ Reversionary ’ bonus is added over the term of the policy and once added becomes part of the guaranteed benefits and can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term . |
| 13 | At Congleton the canal is carried over a road at the south-east side of the town by a cast-iron aqueduct , built around 1835 , on curving masonry abutments . |
| 14 | This is located over the subduction zone and consists largely of thrust sheets of sediment and slivers of oceanic crust , known as ophiolite , emplaced by the subducted plate . |
| 15 | The volume of support for Sakharov broke through to the Moscow centre where power is wielded over the world from lofty isolation , where ‘ they ’ make their decisions . |
| 16 | It is named after the book by Stoppani , whose portrait is imposed over a map of Italy on the foil packaging . |
| 17 | Similar loading continues onto the upper triangle ( no space can be left in the middle ) , still keeping the corners well built up , and finally a cap is built over the tripod tips . |
| 18 | The blessing itself is made over a cup of wine in honour of the day ( ‘ Blessed art Thou , O Lord our God , King of the universe , who createst divers kinds of spices ’ ) which adds to the light of the Sabbath , symbolised by the candle , offering a fragrance and a beauty all its own . |
| 19 | A muffled announcement is made over the loudspeaker . |
| 20 | In this technique a V-profile chisel , the graver , is pushed over the surface of the metal in order to remove a sliver of metal . |
| 21 | In a different class of important circuits , positive feedback is applied over a band of frequencies from zero frequency upwards . |
| 22 | The vinyl is applied over the paper base , through an engraved screen , and then the design is ‘ blown ’ by heating in an oven . |
| 23 | As the stylus is moved over a pattern , the router duplicates the original . |
| 24 | When the light pen is moved over the code , it triggers the chips to make sound through the loudspeaker . |
| 25 | Encom Cable TV & Telecommunications Ltd has launched a local telephone service in Redbridge , Barking and Dagenham , Essex : the service is offered over the company 's fibre trunk cable , which links to Mercury Communications Ltd 's national network ; the company claims that calls are 10% to 15% cheaper that British Telecommunications Plc 's . |
| 26 | Examination of the mechanical behaviour shows that there are five distinguishable states in which a linear amorphous polymer can exist and these are readily displayed if a parameter such as the elastic modulus is measured over a range of temperatures . |
| 27 | These are both particular kinds of relaxation spectroscopy in which the sample is perturbed by a sinusoidal force ( either mechanical or electrical ) and the response of the material is measured over a range of temperatures and at different frequencies of the applied force . |
| 28 | As the roller is drawn over the skin , hairs are trapped in the slits and plucked out . |
| 29 | The BaByliss Epilady , £37 , works on a similar principle ; a soft metal coil is drawn over the skin and as it vibrates hairs are trapped within the coil and plucked out . |
| 30 | Water is drawn over the disc but does not get close enough to the roots to damage them . |