Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The academics ' letter to The Independent , for which signatures were gathered over the past fortnight , expressed dismay at the damage it said had been inflicted on universities and polytechnics since 1979 . |
| 2 | All manner of Masters records were broken over the first 36 holes . |
| 3 | Just as they were puzzling over the next move the man rang back to tell them that they were on a wild goose chase . |
| 4 | Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields , the main body of the plane had landed in one piece . |
| 5 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 6 | A spokesman said more cash calls were expected over the next few months as members become faced with increasing demands from agents to meet large losses . |
| 7 | They were walking over the deep sun-baked mud-tracks of the lane and you had to watch where you put your feet if you did n't want to twist your ankle . |
| 8 | The three men were walking over the top paddock . |
| 9 | To these eight , a further thirteen children were added over the next twenty years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it has also been argued that the basic features of positivism applied to all causal theories of crime , whether biological ( as in the case of the founding fathers ) , psychological or sociological , that were to appear over the next half century or more ( Jeffery , 1960 ; Matza , 1964 ) . |
| 12 | The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests . |
| 13 | Most Christian churches in Britain were built over the original sacred sites at these points . |
| 14 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 15 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 16 | Within the two weeks confidently predicted by Havelock Wilson company after company and local shipowner association after association made its peace with advances in wages and on 28 June some 100 shipowners met in London and decided , among other things , on the standardisation of the local rates which were accepted over the next few days . |
| 17 | There were five of these sites and in the tot in total nine hundred and twenty eight operations were performed over the five sites . |
| 18 | Reportedly a total of only 14 aircraft were sold over the two day event , and those that actually sold realised low prices , making it somewhat of a buyer 's market . |
| 19 | Special effects ( sounds of waves lapping against the side of the ship and seagull cries ) were played over the public address system , milling around the aircraft were groundcrew all dressed in period Navy uniforms , and then the order to start engines was given . |
| 20 | If the event were duplicated over the whole country on a week on week basis you could multiply Susan and Vera 's conversation many times over . |
| 21 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |
| 22 | In the main factory , heads were bent over the new German sewing-machines in which Rose had recently invested . |
| 23 | Governors were blasted over the weak financial plan for the voluntary aided Rupert Road school . |
| 24 | Fortnightly intramuscular injections of 50 mg mycocrisin were administered over the next three months . |
| 25 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 26 | All cars were judged over the two days at given times for sound quality including staging , stereo image , clarity , frequency separation and absence of noise . |
| 27 | But established towns too were advancing over the surrounding fields . |
| 28 | On this occasion they were accompanied over the later stages by Pagon and Sellwood , the two British ladies ' K1s , also bringing up the rear of their class . |
| 29 | Their organisations were split over the original decision to send troops to the Gulf : the National Association of Arab Americans ( NAAA ) supported the build-up , while the ADC , a larger organisation , opposed it . |
| 30 | They were sweeping over the ancient continent of Africa , the everlasting wastelands of the desert no more than a patch on a great patchwork quilt . |