Example sentences of "be [verb] over a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | One such was that further detailed studies of the possible effects should be undertaken over a 12-month period . |
2 | This will enable the distribution to be completed over a shorter period . |
3 | Also , employers are constantly employing new staff so the return on selection has to be calculated over a longer period of time to get a true picture of the effects of selection methods . |
4 | In contrast , the smaller and faster stunters with higher sail loading can be pirouetted over a designated spot and dropped onto their tails with little more than a quick lunge forwards by the flyer . |
5 | The temple can only be approached over a narrow drawbridge of truesteel . |
6 | For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) . |
7 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
8 | For the city-centre church this will mean working with a map of the entire city , in recognition that the majority of their congregation will be scattered over a large area . |
9 | Mrs Swindles said the development would be seen over a wide area of Co Antrim , Newtownabbey , Belfast and Co Down . |
10 | Both groups of students will be tracked over a 2 year period . |
11 | Under a black layer of grime was another report of a visit to London of Signor Marconi , ‘ the inventor of the system of telegraphy by which messages can be transmitted over a considerable distance without wires ’ . |
12 | THE Duke of Westminster 's Cheshire estate would not be prosecuted over a huge leak of diesel fuel into the River Dee in June , the National Rivers Authority decided yesterday . |
13 | The government on Dec. 27 announced that negotiations with the United States aimed at allowing the withdrawal of US forces from Subic Bay naval base to be phased over a three-year period had broken down . |
14 | At the end of the day , there are experiences to be shared , new friends to be introduced and tans to be compared over a convivial drink . |
15 | To be introduced over a two-year period , the reform had as its main aim the reduction of income tax rates while increasing indirect taxes , and tightening rules on the taxation of capital gains without altering the overall tax burden . |
16 | The run-down was to be stretched over a longer period and the agreed strength raised from Sandys ’ proposed 45,000 to 55,000 . |
17 | It would in some parts of the country be distributed over a wide area : the whole of East Anglia , for instance , with at present precisely 20 single-member constituencies , and in Scotland some considerably more extensive territories . |
18 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
19 | Fixed costs will often only be fixed over a limited range of output and will tend to behave in a stepped rather than linear fashion . |
20 | The educational progress of the children will be monitored over a two-year period . |
21 | This is clearly not the case where some very frail old people are concerned but reciprocity can be viewed over a long time scale . |
22 | Capital allowances deducted from the taxable income may be higher in the early years ( and therefore lower in the later years ) thin book depreciation , which may be charged over a longer period . |
23 | Alternatively , text can be centred over a single column so that , if the text is too wide for that column , it will overlap the left and right of the column equally . |
24 | All this , and much more , would be discussed over a good dinner and some equally good bottles of wine during an afternoon . |
25 | An additional incentive is that a garden , in contrast to its associated historic building , does not always need substantial sums for major fabric repairs at the outset and can be revived over a longer period of time . |
26 | This paper is also translucent , so a new sheet can be put over a previous attempt and the work can then be repeated with modifications by tracing through . |
27 | The observation of a progression enables the vibrational potential function to be specified over a wide range of the quantum number ν . |
28 | However , a simple router table , allowing stock to be passed over a static cutter , is a fairly essential next step after purchasing a router . |
29 | Restrictions on nationwide banking would be eliminated over a three-year period . |
30 | In hand knitting these braids are developed and can be worked over a wide number of stitches , sometimes forming basket weave patterns , but on a chunky machine there is a risk of forcing the needles . |