Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [noun] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 2 | Hand studied 65 theses on entomology produced within the colleges of the University of London over a five year period . |
| 3 | First , those who stress the symbolic role of leaders , or the concentration of power over a few absolutely critical decisions in the hands of a power elite , view leadership as a zero-sum game . |
| 4 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 5 | The team at Oxford 's cancer fund are now planning longer term research with other organisations world-wide to assess the effects of tamoxifen over a longer period of time to see if it can continue saving lives . |
| 6 | The sounds are the same as those of daylight , yet somehow the night magnifies and sharpens the creak of a yielding block , the sigh of air over a shroud , the stretching of a sail , the hiss of water sliding sleek against the hull , the curl of a quarter-wave falling away , and the thump as a wave strikes the cutwater to be sheared into two bright slices of whiteness . |
| 7 | We regard it as an inhuman act , they say , to keep a man facing the agony of execution over a long extended period . |
| 8 | It provides a rather more formal learning structure , and given the price of beer over a session can probably be had at a similar cost . |
| 9 | Now er I have to warn him there are that sort of conduct has been indulged in to the detriment of the people of Highfields over a significant period by the Labour party . |
| 10 | Eisenhower , who was in the midst of his re-election campaign and was presenting himself to the American electorate as ‘ a man of peace ’ , failed to make clear to his British and French colleagues in the Atlantic Alliance the depth of his reluctance to countenance the use of force over an issue that was only important and not vital to US interests . |
| 11 | Men crawled over the area like ants over an anthill , and several small handcarts rolled along here and there . |
| 12 | The appellants considered the mortgage could not be redeemed without their consent unless in accordance with the covenant for repayment over a period of 21 years . |
| 13 | The increased powers of the Secretary of State over a centrally directed system of curriculum and assessment and , indeed , over teachers ' conditions of service , make it ‘ safe ’ for the government to increase the managerial responsibilities of schools . |
| 14 | Similarly , we can look at the iconography of coins over a shorter period . |
| 15 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
| 16 | Other tasks which require immense computer power are modelling the behaviour of quarks , one of the smallest particles known to man , or studying the flow of air over an airplane wing . |
| 17 | By interviewing a subsample of women from the original study it will be possible to plot the stability of self-esteem over a 7 to 8 year period and its relationship to changing social circumstances . |
| 18 | THE CONTROVERSY in Norway over a bounty of £2000 , placed on the head of one of the country 's last wolves , has had to be settled at cabinet level . |
| 19 | On the other hand , if it is impossible to find any evidence of the congruence between government growth and the requirements of capitalism over a certain period . |
| 20 | One solution to the difficulty of what the Cockcroft Report refers to as " recording positive achievement " which attempts to avoid laying too much stress on what pupils have not achieved is to record the growth in attainment over a period of time . |
| 21 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
| 22 | A recent specialist Soviet study on Southeast Asia argued that the term ‘ neutralisation ’ as distinct from the related terms ‘ neutrality ’ and ‘ neutralism ’ contained the idea of activity over a more or less defined period of time ; it implied a process of gradual and progressive development . |
| 23 | The group says that the survival of evidence over a period of years defies expectations and improves the prospects for enforcement of the recently signed international Chemical Weapons Convention ( see Nature 361 , 105 ; 1993 ) . |
| 24 | As compared with the more usual situation in which we only know the activity of people over a short period , such data raise some challenging statistical and econometric problems . |
| 25 | High rate of growth The rate of growth is a measure of the increase in output over a period of time . |
| 26 | 4 Entry The right for the Tenant and all persons expressly or by implication authorised by the Tenant to enter upon other parts of the Centre and ( if any ) the Adjoining Property to carry out works to the Premises where such works would otherwise not be possible , or may be possible but rendered more expensive than they would otherwise be if this right was available The problem of access over a neighbour 's land has been greatly alleviated by the passage of the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 which sets out a procedure whereby a person may obtain a court order permitting access to a neighbour 's property in order to carry out works to protect , repair or maintain their property in circumstances where the neighbour refuses consent to such access . |
| 27 | The Trail , which is being sponsored to the tune of £300,000 over a minimum of three years by Direct Line Insurance , will visit 6 cities during April and July , spending a week at each . |
| 28 | This case , in effect , turns on whether the family proceedings court can keep the power of review over a care order by making directions in relation to the care order . |
| 29 | Gas supply agreements often provide for the supply of gas over a long period , sometimes for a decade or more . |
| 30 | Rather the state is the central site for the negotiation of conflict over a whole range of issues , in which the state is a participant though not necessarily a consistently dominant or united one . |