Example sentences of "be spread over [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The range of flavours expected in a Thai meal should be spread over a choice of textures , too . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Because of the size of block used , laying is an easy job which can be spread over a period of time . |
4 | In accordance with the applicable accounting standard , the surplus on the group 's UK pension fund has been spread over the average of the expected remaining service lives of current employees ( 12 years ) as a variation from regular cost . |
5 | Calculating the expected yield from a new machine , however , is not easy because yields are spread over a number of years in the future . |
6 | The first is that being spread over a period of time which began before the Armada , included the civil war and Commonwealth , and finished only after the accession of William of Orange , they are an unrivalled source of information on the changing status of many local families . |
7 | If we take a view about fairness , then the funding of capital schemes is fairer if the charge and the cost of the those schemes is spread over the life of the the asset . |
8 | Assuming no overall change in the CAA 's activities , no cross-subsidy , and a policy of full cost recovery of actual work done , we estimate that the additional cost to our sector of the industry would mean an increase in all AOC charges and C o A charges of more than 1,000 per cent — clearly a preposterous situation which would effectively kill off our AOC sector even if the increase was spread over a number of years , and would thus be self-defeating since it would leave the airlines to pay more of the CAA 's overheads than they do now . |
9 | His head was lying in the crook of her arm and the flat of his hand was spread over the bulge of her stomach . |