Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Project B remits larger cash inflows spread over a five-year period as opposed to the three years of cash inflows from Project A. Discounted cash flows would provide a rational basis for comparing these two projects on an equitable basis . |
| 2 | The broad branching heads of large , ragged yellow daisies appear over a long period during summer ; a large patch is a magnificent spectacle . |
| 3 | Her face looked calm and beautiful as it slept its enforced slumber , the lips slightly parted , the dark curls spilling over a pale cheek . |
| 4 | They rounded yet another bend , the headlights sweeping over a bald expanse of stricken scanty grass . |
| 5 | Twenty four spokes slide over a fixed cam , so that as they move they change length and unbalance the wheel . |
| 6 | In the case of photography , you may spend hours poring over a light box choosing the ideal photograph from a sheaf of contact negatives . |
| 7 | ‘ I simply have n't got time to spend hours slaving over a hot stove — I 'd rather be out playing with the children or getting out and about , but I do try to make sure we eat well . ’ |
| 8 | Modern industry needs to be in places where there are many transport links to bring workers together from places spread over a wide area . |
| 9 | The story is largely made up of legendary motifs , biblical recollections and Christian hostility ; it is after all meant to explain how the Christians took over a Jewish synagogue in Antioch which preserved , according to another source , the mantle of Moses , the surviving fragments of the Law tables , the keys of the Ark and other treasures . |
| 10 | En route , we passed a woodman baking potatoes and chestnuts on the ashes of a fire , as Jean-Claude had done , and a huge swarm of angry , iridescent flies hovering over a dead fox , as he had been accustomed to finding close at hand . |
| 11 | Let the vegetables soften over a low heat . |
| 12 | Only a few answers are actually printed of course , and we endeavour to choose questions ranging over a large area . |
| 13 | Allow the eggs to cook over a gentle heat — it should bubble and puff up . |
| 14 | Even today surgeons turn over a large number of patients for hymen replacements or repairs carried out in the strictest confidence and secrecy . |
| 15 | That left Pitcher undefeated on 32 and the Light Blues to mull over a 133-run defeat that might have been much more comprehensive . |
| 16 | As things stood , although the Government was able to refuse registration to a newspaper on the grounds of some technicality or other , nothing in law prevented a person from using one of the existing , properly registered newspapers to put over a particular political line . |
| 17 | That night we slid into Tomb Bay , where Lycian rock tombs glare over a sheltered bight and cicadas yell from oleanders . |
| 18 | The remaining forms of severe handicaps extend over a wide range of mental and physical disabilities caused by an even wider range of genetic factors , infections and diseases affecting the normal reproductory process . |
| 19 | Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back . |
| 20 | The lords compelled the peasants to hand over a considerable portion of the agricultural goods that they produced as tenant farmers on small strips of land , and also to perform customary services directly for the benefit of the lord . |
| 21 | She strolled around the perimeter of the room as he poured the pale amber liquid , her fingers skimming over a small marble figure of a faun , then across a tiny enamelled box , and finally she paused before an oil-painting of a man . |
| 22 | The rationale , however , for that is clear : while insurers are willing to concede that accidents will happen , events developing over a long period of time because of a lack of concern for the potential hazards should not be allowed to . |
| 23 | Finally may I thank all those who supported the event which saw five main line steam locomotives operating over a preserved main line and hope that they found their visit enjoyable . |
| 24 | If you 'd rather not spend your valuable evenings slaving over a hot stove take a look at Cosmopolitan After-work Cookbook . |
| 25 | There is usually a formal system of discounts , for advertisers spending over a certain level with the station , and perhaps even for early booking , and whenever a station has time to sell which it fears it might fail to dispose of it is possible for the buyer to negotiate on the price . |
| 26 | This perspective is inadequate for an understanding of the colonial legal system because the post-independence practices evolved over a long period of time . |
| 27 | In a number of instances the Romans took over a Greek theatre ( for example at Taormina ) and adapted it to their requirements . |
| 28 | In the Goya wail paintings today fittingly displayed in the Prado , and in many of his other works , one sees again and again these formidable elephantine rocks lowering over a cringing humanity trying to find shelter in a bandit landscape . |