Example sentences of "[verb] over an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
| 2 | A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square . |
| 3 | These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area . |
| 4 | do n't say that a level crossing or where the road narrows , on approached any type of pedestrian crossing or where it would involve driving over an area marked with diagonal stripes to or che chevrons , do not overtake when you do so would force another vehicle to swerve or slow down , if in doubt do not overtake so where 'd you not overtake ? |
| 5 | These resonances correspond to constructive interference of the circulating field with the incident field , and 8 thus sweeps through 2 as the total cavity length is fine-tuned over an optical wavelength . |
| 6 | What is more , by including a number of suitable tapping points , the turns ratio may be varied over an enormous range to permit the comparison of widely differing impedances . |
| 7 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 8 | Support for Mr Museveni , who presides over an administration still blighted by corruption , seems to stem from a belief in his personal sincerity and integrity . |
| 9 | The Tsar presides over an assembly made up predominantly of landowners , seen here standing at a respectful distance , and leading members of the Church 's hierarchy , seated at the front |
| 10 | Hong Kong is administered by a British-appointed Governor ( currently Sir David Wilson ) who presides over an Executive Council ( with four ex-officio members and 10 nominated members ) and a Legislative Council ( Legco ) consisting of three of the ex-officio Executive Council members , seven other ex-officio members , 20 appointed members and 26 elected members ( 12 chosen by an electoral college and 14 by " functional constituencies " ) . |
| 11 | Montserrat , part of the British colony of the Leeward Islands from 1871 to 1956 , when it became a separate United Kingdom Dependent Territory , is governed by a Governor , who presides over an Executive Council and a Legislative Council with seven elected , two official and two nominated members . |
| 12 | The islands are ruled by a Governor , representing the UK sovereign , who is responsible for external affairs , defence and internal security , and presides over an eight-member Executive Council , appointed from the Legislative Council , which has seven appointed and 13 elected members . |
| 13 | Hong Kong is administered by a UK-appointed Governor representing the UK sovereign , who presides over an Executive Council ( with four ex-officio members and 10 nominated members ) and a Legislative Council ( Legco ) consisting of three of the ex-officio Executive Council members , seven other ex-officio members , 20 appointed members and 26 elected members ( 12 chosen by an electoral college and 14 by " functional constituencies " ) . |
| 14 | Peat-stained hands , grace before the meal intoned in Gaelic , the taste of tea brewed over an open peat fire , and the smell of heather borne on a keen sea breeze . |
| 15 | Combined with the federal structure of Germany this means that services are de-centralized as far as the political and administrative levels of national state ( Bundesstaat ) , federal state ( Land ) , district ( Kreis ) and local authority are concerned and additionally dispersed over an almost indescribable multiplicity of semi- and non-statutory organizations . |
| 16 | RAMBO star Sylvester Stallone 's son is to be quizzed over an attempted murder plot , it was revealed last night . |
| 17 | If the new inspection chamber is to be positioned over an existing clay drain , the difficulty is likely to be cutting into the existing drain . |
| 18 | For breakfast the family eats a thin maize porridge made from dried milk , prepared over an open fire . |
| 19 | These were stylish houses built over an empty space , used as a garage , with few supporting columns . |
| 20 | Effigies of the Cobra , or ‘ Nagacoils ; in a Hindu shrine built over an anthill , seen at the rear . |
| 21 | The fabric masks were built over an underskull frame . |
| 22 | Who is going to buy a T-shirt with the words ‘ Athletico Whaddon ’ felt-tipped on to a piece of paper , and Blu-tac 'd over an Iron Maiden logo ? |
| 23 | Bell was appointed to preside over an abolition which , in the event , proved impossible . |
| 24 | Easy FM is transmitted over an 8 mile radius and has a potential audience of thousands . |
| 25 | If the scattering intensity for each concentration in a dilution series is measured over an angular range 35° to 145° , the data can be plotted as against , where k′ is an arbitrary constant chosen to provide a convenient spread of the data in the grid-like graph which is obtained . |
| 26 | Probably the most studied biolayer is where an enzyme layer is used over an electrochemical transducer , producing an enzyme electrode . |
| 27 | A group of apple growers in the State of Washington have now filed a suit for " product disparagement " against the NRDC and the television programme Sixty Minutes , in which a skull and crossbones was shown over an apple . |
| 28 | Our medieval law of guardianship was concerned mainly with infants who were heirs of land ; and though the ‘ guardian in socage ’ — the nearest relation of the infant to whom the infant 's land can not descend — has not been abolished , the practice of settlement and of appointing trustees in whom the land , or at least powers over it , are vested , renders rare the occasions on which the very limited powers of such or any kind of guardians can be exercised over an infant 's land . |
| 29 | His working clothes were bottle-green cords and a russet sweater worn over an open check shirt . |
| 30 | Bell Labs Software Technology Center is to promote Procase 's Smartsystem — a five-module development and maintenance environment integrated over an object-oriented database — to AT&T development organisations under a cooperative purchase pact : the Center has developed interfaces linking Smartsystem to AT&T 's own software engineering products which Procase itself will peddle to C developers . |