Example sentences of "over a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The first game with legs still weary , was won 31–14 over a young and energetic Newfoundland XV .
2 Over a hasty but adequate meal , the situation and plans were discussed , Black Agnes approving heartily , almost gleefully , indeed going so far as to add an improvement of her own .
3 These were established in 1948 and awards are made biennially to one or more candidates over a one or two year period .
4 They 're one point eight G L Estate F reg , four thousand , two hundred , that 's A B C D E , five year 's difference , done four thousand , two hundred , two , eight hundred quid , well actually it 's , our cars worth over a grand if I 'd sprayed it up and put it on the market
5 A heavily grazed sward has little resilience to repeated abrasion by walkers ' boots , leading to vegetation , followed by soil , loss over a wider and wider area .
6 The BMC 's ability to negotiate access agreements for the whole climbing community and to enforce their controversial bolting policy has been thrown into stark relief over a small and obscure gritstone crag in the Derbyshire Peak .
7 6 Make a list of material which could generate ongoing coverage over a three- or six-month period and work out a plan for offering both general releases and specific feature material .
8 The association between Cryptosporidium , chronic diarrhoea and a proximal small intestinal mucosal enteropathy was reviewed over a six and a half year period .
9 If there is any instant antidote to stress , strain and long-distance flights , this is it : to drift like a long-winged bird over a strange and beautiful planet .
10 The access to a site or any part of the site may be over a private or unadopted road .
11 Glass reckons he saw 100 people individually and in groups over a four or five month period .
12 They will be competing against teams from Scotland , Wales , the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland over a four and three quarter mile course on the steep slopes of Knockdhu nar Carncastle .
13 I am shown over a large and productive school garden in Lesotho by the teachers and pupils who created it .
14 Sometimes the inlet pipe can be eased over a little and the overflow trimmed to suit .
15 At the time , it seemed that nothing could break Ceauşescu 's hold over a servile and cowardly Party élite .
16 The first Targa Florio was held on 6 May 1906 and that race , like all subsequent ones , was over a difficult and testing winding Sicilian course which varied over the years .
17 Even as I was recording my triumphs over a hostile and alien world , I was also expressing such sentiments as , ‘ Oh , it 's not even worth writing down — the same , usual , dismal , tedious , boring story . ’
18 After the ingestion of the lactulose drink or the rice flour meal end expiratory breath samples were collected in 50 ml polyethylene syringes at time 0 and 15 minute intervals thereafter over a 5.5 or seven hour period for the lactulose or the rice flour test respectively .
19 Beer had been thrown over a local and Slatter was obviously to blame .
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