Example sentences of "[vb pp] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This guitar 's overall colouring has obviously darkened with the passing of over three decades , and the lacquer is now finely cracked over the close-grained spruce top . |
| 2 | Now once again lights and darks are juxtaposed arbitrarily to create a sense of shallow relief , and are evenly scattered over the entire picture surface to maintain a compositional balance . |
| 3 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 4 | ‘ We were just taking some reciprocal photos for my kid , ’ Florian explained insouciantly as he stood up , indicating the photos of Joni scattered over the glass-topped coffee-table . |
| 5 | When , in 1884 , G. T. Clark [ q.v. ] published his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England , she realized that it contained false assumptions about the origins of the various mounds or mottes scattered over the British Isles . |
| 6 | All that remains now of the sixteen dwellings Seller burned are a few tumbled stones , scattered over the green hillside . |
| 7 | The disk has large granular spinelets , some of which are just rounded others with a crown of 3 or 4 points , scattered over the dorsal and ventral surfaces . |
| 8 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 9 | Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields , the main body of the plane had landed in one piece . |
| 10 | The advocates of " Unity " argued , however , that a considerable change had come over the Communist Party and that it had given up its " social fascist " accusations . |
| 11 | The need for it has reduced but has not vanished over the past twenty years . |
| 12 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 13 | Comfort 's hands were clenched over the carved , gilded footboard of the bed and her big grey eyes were anxious when Julia could at last focus on them . |
| 14 | He had probably looked over the preparatory material which had already been published elsewhere , and sketched out the remaining chapters , during his period of convalescence in the late summer and autumn of 1947 . |
| 15 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 16 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 17 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 18 | The numerator , 1 , is carried over the decimal point to become unc This will be divided by 2 giving the answer 5 in the tenths column , or 0.5 . |
| 19 | The canal is carried over the western spur of the M5 on a modern aqueduct . |
| 20 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 21 | In it , Ptolemy summarized much of the scientific knowledge which had been amassed over the previous centuries . |
| 22 | I have been very pleased with my performance , with my success and the achievements which I have enjoyed over the past 20 years . |
| 23 | Some later Acts , such as that of 1853 disafforesting Wychwood Forest , did not extinguish common rights : common fields were to be set and cleared in each parish in compensation for the common rights which the forest inhabitants had previously enjoyed over the whole forest waste . |
| 24 | Our sand lizard , resembling a green mini-monster from prehistoric times , scrambled over the twiggy heather . |
| 25 | There are many ways of estimating the quality of the benefit at the end of the plan but one simple one is to calculate an earnings ratio , given by the interest earned over the total sum — which is best expressed as a percentage . |
| 26 | Ann Act Return ; annual actual return ( per cent ) , this is the actual return earned over the past year and includes both capital appreciation ( depreciation ) and any dividend paid . |
| 27 | The most militant fan of Sixties architecture would be hard pressed to support a last-minute appeal for the Bull Ring , although crocodile tears will be shed over the probable demolition of the Rotunda , a monumental steel and glass phallus , that , in the absence of a sky-piercing cathedral , acts as the city 's one instantly recognisable focal point . |
| 28 | It is up to the discretion of the neighbourhood policemen whether or not they respond to incidents reported over the personal radio , although major occurrences such as bomb alerts and fights , tend to attract them , as well as incidents that are nearby . |
| 29 | The report claims three hundred and sixty five cases of AIDS have been reported over the past three months ; it 's the highest quarterly rate yet . |
| 30 | Published by the Menil Foundation with Mercator Fonds and Thames & Hudson ( £45 ) , it is aimed at a wider readership , but it will be the essential essay for all students keen to learn how a great scholar 's opinions have been honed over the long years spent in the consideration of Magritte 's art . |