Example sentences of "over [adj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three central heating pump chambers are equally well-disguised by building over each a raised plinth , topped by a removable slab . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've been over this a hundred times already . |
| 3 | In 1971 , a new covenant was signed by over half a million men and women , committing protestants to a renewal of the covenant political ideal . |
| 4 | This explains very clearly why Matilda is far and away the most popular children 's book I have written and was bought by over half a million children in Britain alone in the first six months . |
| 5 | ‘ A little over half a million pounds . |
| 6 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 7 | Any mother would know if their daughters were lying over such a major thing . |
| 8 | This five-fold ( pentameral ) symmetry seems a peculiar number to be present over such a wide range of organisms . |
| 9 | Over such a wide range of forms of mining and manufacturing , the experience of labour was inevitably varied . |
| 10 | Durham was a very early example in Europe to be stone vaulted over such a wide span . |
| 11 | No-one has enjoyed such popularity over such a wide range of colleagues from the very junior to the very senior . |
| 12 | He says having been there , the crash is n't over such a wide area as we thought at first . |
| 13 | The field of education is as wide as that of religion , and it would be futile to attempt to particularise over such a vast subject . |
| 14 | Therefore I would say a poem such as " I wandered lonely as a cloud " is not a good subject for one picture — because the poet can jump around over such a vast expanse and bring image after image to mind : |
| 15 | The fact that the White groups were spread out over such a vast area caused the lack of communications . |
| 16 | The head of the task force , hydrologist John Verhoeven , warned that " there is nothing to fight it over such a vast range . " |
| 17 | Inevitably , over such a long period , I became less institutionalized , more able to function as an individual in relation to belief and action and not merely accept the organization 's definition of things ; and this is a profoundly un-police like state of affairs ! |
| 18 | Once again , the intensity of contact spread over such a long time in the field makes this form of self-monitoring difficult to maintain , and there was also a general resistance from below to the management 's instruction . |
| 19 | But the broad package of interventions and centralization over such a long period of time surely outstrips that carried out by any previous government . |
| 20 | Added to his faithful representation was his own flavour of the area which no one else has been able to maintain over such a long period . |
| 21 | If it seems odd to devote a chapter to one book , however important and significant , it must be appreciated that numerically it is by far the most commonly found book and one which has been published over such a long period that the collector will see it more frequently than any other . |
| 22 | As the ITVA 's rules on comparative whiteness claims in detergent ads have tightened , the ( by now ) several Persil products have not always been able to use this theme , but its development over such a long period was an astonishing piece of consistency by client management and virtuosity by the agency . |
| 23 | They are simply too expensive to run and maintain over such a long distance . |
| 24 | ‘ It is beyond belief this could happen over such a petty row . |
| 25 | Even contemplating walking out over such a small matter may seem ridiculous , but within the context of that small world , the dispute was a major one . |
| 26 | She told me not to make a fuss over such a small thing . |
| 27 | Tenants for short-term leases are generally reluctant to spend money on fitting out , because they are unable to write off their expenditure over such a short term . |
| 28 | Perhaps the main question is whether the market in its present state can absorb such a wealth of material over such a short period . |
| 29 | As far as Maxim could see nobody followed George through the fading damp light back to Albany , although there was no way to be sure and less way of knowing if he was followed himself not over such a short and crowded distance . |
| 30 | Few companies receive ISO9002 at the first attempt , particularly over such a short period , and it reflects further major business progress . |