Example sentences of "[vb -s] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of a thousand cases reported in United States waters over a five-year period , only two resulted in death . |
| 2 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 3 | Young children do imitate the aggressive acts of televised models as much as live models ; furthermore , this effect persists over a considerable period of time and is particularly pronounced when the aggressive model is portrayed as successful . |
| 4 | The examples all have the same structure : a well-defined quantity is recorded at successive equally-spaced time points over a specific period . |
| 5 | Inexpensive seed propagators consist of a transparent plastic lid that fits over a normal seed tray or a number of small plastic or expanded polystyrene ‘ cells ’ held in an outer drip tray . |
| 6 | In the pleasant countryside around the roofless ruin of Courthill House ( not destroyed by fire as may be supposed but dismantled by its owner to avoid paying rates ) , the road turns sharply east to enter a ravine where waterfalls are to be seen , and then climbs over a low ridge to descend to Lochcarron . |
| 7 | From Acharacle , the A.861 climbs over a low ridge to Salen , a village on the shore of Loch Sunart , reaching it through a pleasant woodland and between ditches of yellow flag iris . |
| 8 | It may be reached on foot by using a track leaving the Ullapool road four miles out of Kylesku : this climbs over a high saddle before reaching the stream which can be followed down to the lip of the fall . |
| 9 | Such overly anxious and insecure horses are usually found amongst the Thoroughbred population , where speed is of such importance that it predominates over every other desirable characteristic . |
| 10 | If the acceleration of a system occurs over a small number of steps then the phase excitation timings can be generated by digital integrated circuits . |
| 11 | However , we can illustrate the most important features by considering just two types of motion , each of which occurs over a significant sub-range . |
| 12 | Sometimes this happens over a long period , as a person finds himself constrained to attend a Christian place of worship , or drawn to read the Christian scriptures . |
| 13 | For monthly savings , Mr Murrell recommends Friendly Society plans over a 10-year period because the money grows tax free . |
| 14 | The trapeze hangs lightly from a toggle , the toggle hangs from the end of a proper fishing line , the line passes over a springy pole to the door over the mouth of the basket where the little fish 's wriggling so free . |
| 15 | The threat of it , as I understand , hangs over a young man of your Order . |
| 16 | The infant Cornelia , C.Z. 's daughter , hangs over an eighteenth-century chair ( above ) . |
| 17 | The disparities in overall changes in assumed unit costs over a three-year period are quite remarkable . |
| 18 | The second deterrent is a financial one : course participants do not have to pay fees , since the course itself is financed by the DES , but they do have to fund their living costs over a ten-week period — a not inconsiderable financial commitment . |
| 19 | For example , Policyholder visiting a friend 's house , trips over a loose carpet and injures himself . |
| 20 | A bridge leads over a shallow stream to the rear part of the garden which is walled to one side . |
| 21 | If the path leads over a steep bank or a log , workers will cling to one another to form a living ladder up which the rest of the column clambers . |
| 22 | Almost 12 miles from Gubbio , a left turn leads over a little bridge and up a secondary road to Montelovesco . |
| 23 | Neurophysiologically , however , the ability to recognize that a particular pattern exists over a sizeable region of the retina can not be achieved by the primary visual cortex , where neural connections are only local . |
| 24 | The maximum is reached at one or two atomic spacings ahead of the crack but the distribution is not very peaky and a fairly high tensile stress level exists over a considerable area ahead of the crack . |
| 25 | Where a dominant influence exists over a public company , the dominant undertaking will be liable for any damage suffered by the public company and , more radically , for any debts incurred by the public company as a result of its acting at the direction of the dominant undertaking , although this will seemingly not be the case if the dominant undertaking 's influence is in fact exercised in the best interests of the public company . |
| 26 | It can perform flow injection analysis ( FIA ) and segmented continuous flow analysis ( SFA ) independently or can combine the techniques on a single test allowing automatic sample pretreatment such as dilution , concentration and/or filtration on-line , The Super Cartridge is a two part heater consisting of a spool of polymeric tubing which droops over a cone-shaped heater . |
| 27 | Unlike groups in laboratory studies , the work group is not created and then disbanded permanently ; it often survives over a long period of time . |
| 28 | The third way to underline effectiveness is to make sure your punching arm travels over a sufficient distance for the refereeing panel to see it . |
| 29 | The second category ( called Occasional Publications ) ranges over a wide area of subjects from Peterborough New Town ( 1964 ) , Industry and the Camera ( 1985 ) , to English Vernacular Houses ( reprinted in paperback 1980 ) . |
| 30 | I can assure you it 's very easy to become lost in the New Zealand bush , and this one stretches over a large area . ’ |