Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] over the surface " in BNC.

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1 Pour the soup into soup cups , add the mussels and float the egg/cream glaze over the surface .
2 These up and down movements as the tip scans over the surface provide topographical information which a computer reassembles into an image of the sample .
3 Half an hour before the end of cooking , remove the beef from the oven and carefully spread the mustard and herb mixture over the surface , then return to the oven to finish cooking .
4 As the laser stylus tracks over the surface of the disc , the rate at which the laser reads the disc data is kept constant by changing the speed at which the disc is spinning .
5 As they passed an STM tip over the surface they applied short bursts of alternating voltage , a few milliseconds long and slightly more than 1.5 volts in amplitude , over particular atoms .
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