Example sentences of "[vb pp] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together with radiometric age determinations of the most recent eruptive episode , such reconstructions enable estimates to be made of the amount of material eroded over a known period of time . |
| 2 | If we could have turned over a living trilobite we would have seen an array of jointed legs on the underside , and flexible antennae . |
| 3 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 4 | Dennis the Menace has turned over a new leaf — for a week ! |
| 5 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 6 | COMIC Mike Harding saw how Middlesbrough has turned over a new leaf at the weekend . |
| 7 | Sudirman promptly handed over a vast cache to the city pemuda . |
| 8 | Second , the scope of what New Historicism involves is continuously changing , and the conflicts between contending views are often localised over a few issues . |
| 9 | Go left over a low ridge and downhill . |
| 10 | Because traffic counts are taken over a one year period , it 'll be 1993 before Gloucestershire 's new traffic figures are available . |
| 11 | The girls from the brothel had taken over a small back room . |
| 12 | The Government has advised that women who are pregnant or may become pregnant should not eat liver , as very large doses of vitamin A taken over a long period may be associated with foetal abnormalities . |
| 13 | Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs . |
| 14 | For the static case the line integral of the electric field disappears when taken over a closed path . |
| 15 | Partly because the species are not marketable , partly because trees are only taken over a certain size , erm and so on . |
| 16 | They , Castle Houses , had put up the prize for a steeplechase and had also taken over a prestigious handicap hurdle race already in the programme for Saturday . |
| 17 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've taken over a local building firm which has unfortunately gone belly-up , ’ Vitor told her , ‘ and included among their assets is a plot of a sizeable number of acres which encompasses your property . ’ |
| 19 | An Italian entrepreneur has taken over a whole department store to sell western goods in Romanian currency . |
| 20 | In such studies records of a very large number of events are taken over a considerable period of time and memory for the events is subsequently tested . |
| 21 | When Daine had first come to the City , he had — I knew for a fact — taken over a large proportion of the vice business that had been run by Paul Muni , a mobster whose empire had fallen thanks mainly to the investigative efforts and single-mindedness of — you guessed it — criminologist Claude Rains . |
| 22 | Non-availability of the system due to software or equipment failures during normal working hours should be not greater than 2% taken over a three month rolling average . |
| 23 | The total time lost by system users as a result of errors or the need to correct errors should not exceed twelve and a half hours taken over a three month rolling average ( i.e. 98% accuracy of processing ) . |
| 24 | The circle , comprising leader Neil Beresford , Mark Inskip , Alan Hower and David Foulkes , examined the amount of scrap clay accumulated over a 12 month period in terms of quantity and costs incurred . |