Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over [art] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms . |
| 2 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 3 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 4 | Thus the use of standard terms may promote certainty : the terms of the contract may be easily located and identified ; where the same terms are used over a period , the business and its trading partners will come to know their respective rights and obligations ; terms may be applied to resolve disputes and thus acquire " precedent " value . |
| 5 | They too stand at around 22 per cent , but are phased over the period of production . |
| 6 | Customer quality returns have also been halved over the period . |
| 7 | In addition to exploring the influences upon arrears , this approach will allow the course of arrears to be traced over a period of time . |
| 8 | However , the emphasis has shifted in that the business is now controlled by the purchaser rather than the vendor and the earn out will be calculated over a period of perhaps several years following completion . |
| 9 | If the holder has an option to redeem at a premium , that premium should be accrued over the period to the earliest date at which the option can be exercised . |
| 10 | Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time . |
| 11 | An end-quarter exchange rate is used as interest lies in the gains that could be made over the period in which the yield differential held on average . |
| 12 | Doing it manually , it had to be done over a period of two or three days , fitting it in after work . ’ |
| 13 | Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions . |
| 14 | In March of the following year Mr Henderson was appointed treasurer of the Building Fund and the cost of the building scheme was estimated at £18,000 a sum which could be met over a period of 7 years . |
| 15 | It now seems that a solution to the problem may be found in Law 145 of 10 February 1992 , which allocates funding worth L65 billion ( £30.1 million ; $52.2 million ) to be spent over the period 1991-93 on experimental projects to improve the use of museum resources . |
| 16 | Overtaking behaviour at a number of locations will be monitored over a period of several months using video-recording equipment . |
| 17 | The occasional hairline crack in external brickwork need not be of any significance , but should be observed over a period to see if it extends or widens . |
| 18 | As stated above , the samples of dementia sufferers were to be generated over a period of one year ( 1 April 1984–31 March 1985 ) ; and the development officers were to continue to provide their service for one further year ( until 31 March 1986 ) though no further sample members ( project clients in the case of the action sample ) were to be generated during the second year . |
| 19 | Under U.S. GAAP accounting for goodwill as an offset against shareholders ' equity is not permitted ; rather goodwill must be amortized over the period of its expected useful life , subject to a maximum write-off period of 40 years , through the income statement . |
| 20 | Drug prophylaxis may be practised over the period when outbreaks are normally expected . |
| 21 | Broadly speaking , transformation into a common market was to be spread over a period of between 12 and 15 years , with a stepwise progression through stages of four years each . |
| 22 | Because of the size of block used , laying is an easy job which can be spread over a period of time . |
| 23 | In the case of production contracts , which will be repeated over a period of time , pricing is sometimes based on historical rates with the learning curve applied to reduce them year by year . |
| 24 | A full and accurate assessment of land potential involves detailed enquiries into soil and climate and experience of the behaviour of the crops and livestock it carries , and this can only be achieved over a period of years . |
| 25 | Councillor said that that that that hundred and thirty million could be funded over a period of ten years , at thirteen million pound a year . |
| 26 | Another plan is for the new partners to be admitted merely on undertaking to contribute their share of the partnership capital , and this may either be raised by borrowing from a bank or insurance company ( with periodic repayments ) or be left to be paid over a period of years by deduction from their share of the profits . |
| 27 | All Church properties such as schools , hospitals and cultural establishments , converted into state property by the communist regime , were to be returned over a period of 10 years . |
| 28 | It has also been held that a wholesale sale does not become a retail sale because the goods are delivered over a period in retail quantities : Hales v. Buckley [ 1911 ] W.N. 32 . |
| 29 | These references , which were given over the period continually to 1984 , undoubtedly had an effect on the ability of Berg to engage in large scale bill discounting transactions with other banks . ’ |
| 30 | Studies using X-ray analysis have shown that some paintings , such as Renoir 's The umbrellas , were painted over a period of years , with several definite alterations and distinct stages involved in the painting . |