Example sentences of "over a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This apparent advantage over a predominantly rural rebel zone would only be maintained , however , if the Republic could hold on to its territory , overcome the isolation of the north coast from the rest of the zone , put its precious metal reserves to good use , pay for essential raw materials and feed its large urban population . |
| 2 | However to deliver high concentrates over a moderately large area of irregular equipment a sprayer should be adjusted to a fine jet . |
| 3 | In both 1925 and 1990 proponents of fixed exchange rates resorted to statements , often unsupported by argument , about their perceived benefits over a properly constituted financial policy for controlling inflation . |
| 4 | The " Canal Duke 's " vision and determination and his employment of the self-taught engineering genius James Brindley combined to produce a true " deadwater " link over a completely new route . |
| 5 | " As the ozone has formed over a largely uninhabited region , it seems there is no immediate danger . |
| 6 | I had got over a particularly traumatic childhood and adolescence and looked set fair for a modicum of stability as an adult . |
| 7 | He takes great trouble over a seemingly endless stream of difficulties . |
| 8 | His father was an Ulsterman who emigrated to Scotland to work in the mines , where he married a local woman and presided over a strictly protestant household in which both parents were active members of the Orange Lodge . |
| 9 | ‘ But you 're just as cold , and , ’ he added pointedly , ‘ continuing to tread mud all over a rather expensive Turkish rug — one that I 'm particularly fond of . ’ |
| 10 | It is actually , it makes him feel rather sad erm and also rather funny , and therefore , he rather comes over a rather pathetic creature . |
| 11 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 12 | A full scale sample , to be representative , may mean carrying out many interviews over a geographically dispersed area . |
| 13 | And I remember at the time , I was chasing you over a most ridiculous national press story that Emlyn did n't like the idea of you a pop singer appearing in one of his classics . |
| 14 | We sailed northward up the Minch on a sultry , sweltering day over a most unpleasant ground swell . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the next generation of electric white boy blues/Come on indie rock ! ’ yells Seb 's Lou Barlow over a hilariously generic sludge-out . |
| 16 | Over a fanatically carnivorous lunch in an Argentinian joint on Eighty-Second Street my friend Fielding had been very reassuring on the whole Lorne-Caduta question . |
| 17 | It had been hoped that the station would be reached at high speed by tunnel from east London , but getting to St Pancras from the Channel route would involve a tortuously slow route over a heavily congested suburban line . |
| 18 | While far from being a ‘ wet ’ herself , Mrs Thatcher was presiding over a distinctly watered-down form of Tory economic policy by the summer of 1983 . |
| 19 | Over a barely discernible grey sheet of water was thrown an equally grey shroud of sky , but the shroud was torn in places to reveal streaks of blood red and aquamarine blue . |
| 20 | Likewise , among cars bought next summer , a K-registered one on the road in August will have the eventual edge over a barely older J. |
| 21 | A flicker of doubt passed across Zlorf 's face , like the last shaft of sunlight over a badly ploughed field . |
| 22 | But again , over a surprisingly wide area , and especially in song and in the simpler instruments , some degree of relatively unmediated access is available , with some shared rhythmic resources , possibly of the whole species , as an important factor . |
| 23 | The Legend of St. Elisabeth ( 1857–62 ) features three pieces from the Oratorio on piano solo : the ‘ Orchestral Introduction ’ sets the atmosphere with a simple devotional melody ; ‘ Crusaders ’ March ’ is a series of contrasting fanfare motives over a vigorously varied key structure , and ‘ Interludium ’ uses first , fifth and eighth note repeated sequences with a tail-end flourish throughout . |
| 24 | The Bath Clinic in Avon is cutting the price of vasectomies to £180 to attract patients over a traditionally quiet Christmas . |
| 25 | Each reckoned that off-road , they could beat the other over a suitably undulating course . |
| 26 | Wearing a black , gold-embroidered silk cloak over a finely woven shamma , he came across the room to greet us , shook hands and with a smile and a gesture invited us to be seated . |
| 27 | If the British system of policing is a social construction geared to the maintenance of élitist power and is primarily concerned to keep control over a materially disadvantaged underclass , then these same ‘ dangerous classes ’ seem to have willingly entered into this game of power-relations with their masters ; and by doing so they have deflected attention away from their own lack of privilege and power . |
| 28 | The principle states that over a short enough path length it is always possible to transform to a frame in free fall ; in such a frame , space–time is locally flat and the coordinates of SR may be imposed . |
| 29 | Bolger intends running St Jovite over a more suitable 10 furlongs in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown before tackling the Epsom Classic . |
| 30 | The material is suitable in all filters , especially as a pre-filter over a more cloggable media . |