Example sentences of "place over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The murder could easily have taken place over the boundary , in the Metropolitan police area . |
| 2 | The steady increase in goods traffic which had taken place over the century can be demonstrated by the fact that during twenty-six weeks in 1847 the London and South-Western took in £38,906.19/11d as a result of their freight traffic . |
| 3 | With the expansion of trade and industry in the twelfth century — perhaps the most prolific of all centuries for new towns until we come to the nineteenth — a few traders assembled periodically near a crossing place over the river Welland . |
| 4 | The list tended to be dominated by mathematics and language , with science occupying an increasingly important place over the evaluation period . |
| 5 | Considerable discussion then took place over the remainder of the report , resulting in three divisions and the wording suggested by Elcho being adopted in every case . |
| 6 | By conceding on the timetable , O'Neill gifted the Republicans an important advantage , helping them by drastically curtailing the protracted and damaging interplay of pluralist forces that would have otherwise taken place over the budget . |
| 7 | Talks with bankers were taking place over the weekend , attempting to reach what one source described as an ‘ elegant solution ’ . |
| 8 | The biggest event organised by the Trust this year took place over the weekend of 23 and 24 June when the countryside was brought to Salford in Greater Manchester . |
| 9 | However , Mrs. Buttigieg claimed that there had been no prior warnings to indicate that changes would take place over the weekend . |
| 10 | It now takes place over the weekend of April 24 and 25 . |
| 11 | THE FIRST steam gala that the Birmingham Railway Museum at Tyseley has organised in several years , took place over the weekend of Saturday-Sunday November 28/29th , and was acclaimed as an outstanding success in every respect . |
| 12 | Further sales will take place over the winter season and will mostly include works from the private apartments at Broadlands , Hampshire , Mountbatten 's home from 1939 to 1979 , where rising debts and decreasing visitor numbers have led to the sales . |
| 13 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 14 | It 's impossible to see these spines growing , but easy to record their growth with a series of photographs taken from the same place over the course of a couple of months . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that the transformation in style and approach which took place with Out in 1964 represents a fundamental reconception of the novel on Brooke-Rose 's part , but the technical and conceptual development which took place over the course of her early fiction points the way to the change to come . |
| 16 | It is possible that the entire text is a combination of description and recollection from the perspective of a single flight , in which case it takes place over the course of a few hours , the time it takes to read it . |
| 17 | The negotiations took place over the course of a year between autumn 1990 and summer 1991 , and could be characterized as the centre progressively conceding to the demands of the republics for more independence . |
| 18 | And I think that the revolution in history which has taken place over the course of the last twenty-five years has been a revolution which has been fuelled by people 's curiosity to study things which previously had not been studied , rather than just to take some formal statement of what seemed to be important , which is what the chroniclers took , or some propaganda statement , which is what the Tudors took and what the seventeenth century historians took , or indeed to write very academic history , which is what professional historians have tended to do , over the course of the last erm forty or fifty years . |
| 19 | In the U.S. , trading takes place over the counter on the basis of prices quoted on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation ( NASDAQ ) system . |
| 20 | In order to copy existing artwork onto film , cut some drafting film to size ( allowing plenty of room as a border ) and place it over the artwork to be copied , perhaps Sellotaping it in place over the page . |
| 21 | Drambuie 's wine merchant subsidiary , Cockburn 's of Leith , was recently sold off and management buy-out negotiations are currently taking place over the disposal of its Perth-based glass manufacturing subsidiary , Caithness Glass . |