Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] over the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We pulled out all the stops to produce extra stock needed to meet the charter flights , so the paint could be flown in over the weekends . ’
2 In large-scale national surveys , as carried out regularly by market research firms and government agencies , interviews may be carried out over the whole country and the people who have the task of making the analysis of several hundred or thousand schedules can not possibly be for ever phoning through to the interviewers to ask what some cryptic little scribble opposite question number 15 is supposed to mean .
3 Assessment of progress will be carried out over the two year period and will be based on the completion of design notebooks , workbooks , pattern drafts , knitted samples and garments and finally a written examination .
4 A Declaratory Order covering 270 acres was proposed with a view to designating extensively war-damaged land , subject to compulsory purchase ; this was required for essential improvements to be carried out over the next 15 years .
5 Follow-up visits will be carried out over the next three weeks , to obtain additional information on equipment , software , and your immediate working environment .
6 The assessment will be carried out over the Christmas and New Year period as a consultancy , reporting to me .
7 The tests are due to be carried out over the next fortnight but parents will face a six-week wait for the results .
8 Mr Paterson said the formal consultation process on permanent closure of Heiton would be carried out over the summer .
9 THE first practical testing of a sonar device to help submarines detect the presence of fishing boats in the Firth of Clyde is expected to be carried out over the weekend of 3 April .
10 Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme .
11 Drainage : what needs to be done before a good soil structure can be built up over the whole farm ?
12 The stocking level would be built up over the weeks .
13 The war was over , I had a steady boyfriend who was n't likely to be shot down over the Ruhr , and I was working with a bunch of very congenial people .
14 What it is , is that it would be averaged out over the blood as a whole .
15 A replay is to be played out over the proposed Clairville Common complex between Anchor International and local objectors .
16 Tory sources insist that Mr Major is leaving the decision up to backbenchers , who will be sounded out over the next few days .
17 Protection will be phased out over the following three years ( 1991–92 to 1993–94 ) .
18 The extra 300 staff will be phased in over the next few years .
19 They 'll be coming out over the next year or so .
20 The first will be shipped out over the next few weeks to start competing with the conventional hydrofoils , Boeing Jetfoil and high-speed catamarans that vie for business on the 78 km route to Macau .
21 A single agency to control all forms of pollution in Scotland is to be set up over the next three years .
22 For the same reason solidification of an appreciable fraction of the mantle can also be ruled out over the same period of history .
23 The yard will be run down over the next three weeks with the loss of 600 jobs .
24 And that 's an arrangement which will be carrying on over the next few years .
25 Next year the event will be held in the Grand Hall of Olympia 1 , which will provide 50% more floor space to be taken up over the next five years .
26 Several prospective schemes were suggested and will be worked on over the winter .
27 The frame will extend the bag almost fully but without overstretching it , and there will be enough slackness to allow the bag to be folded out over the top of the frame .
28 For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass .
29 Details for opening the ‘ corridors ’ are to be thrashed out over the next four days .
30 That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools .
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