Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | RAMBO star Sylvester Stallone 's son is to be quizzed over an attempted murder plot , it was revealed last night . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For breakfast the family eats a thin maize porridge made from dried milk , prepared over an open fire . |
| 11 | These were stylish houses built over an empty space , used as a garage , with few supporting columns . |
| 12 | Effigies of the Cobra , or ‘ Nagacoils ; in a Hindu shrine built over an anthill , seen at the rear . |
| 13 | The fabric masks were built over an underskull frame . |
| 14 | Easy FM is transmitted over an 8 mile radius and has a potential audience of thousands . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Probably the most studied biolayer is where an enzyme layer is used over an electrochemical transducer , producing an enzyme electrode . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His working clothes were bottle-green cords and a russet sweater worn over an open check shirt . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ash and dust was deposited over an area of 170,000 hectares devastating the local environment and crops . |
| 22 | The ghostly beam wandered over three crude figures hunched over an altar . |
| 23 | Specifically , that worked best on the song War , where the melody is played over an E riff and then it 's played over a B riff and then over an A , but the melody of the verse never uses a third and so you do n't know whether it 's phrygian or phrygian dominant . |
| 24 | The wreckage was strewn over an area of 150-yard radius , confirming the official 's description . |
| 25 | The closure of the regional offices was phased over an 18-month period and affected 435 staff . |
| 26 | In May 1990 the FAO launched an appeal for $85,000,000 to eradicate the New World screwworm ( Cochliomyia homnivorax ) , a large fly of South American origin which had been detected over an area of 18,000 sq km in Libya . |
| 27 | In October two former deputy ministers were arrested over an alleged coup plot ; the two , along with a number of other top-level officials , had reportedly formed a pro-democracy grouping , the Social Democrat Group . |
| 28 | The collar is ringed with spring-loaded spikes and can be slipped over an enemy 's head , breaking his neck and killing him instantly . |
| 29 | Any piece of rotten meat that could still be found in the enclave was slipped over an improvised fish hook , attached to a rope and hurled over the parapet in the vain hope of catching a jackal or a pariah dog that might swallow it . |
| 30 | But when that voice was stretched over an LP it started to wear a bit thin . |