Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun sg] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) were able to demonstrate an apparent loss of latent inhibition over a long retention interval using chocolate milk as the CS , no effect was apparent when saccharin was used . |
| 2 | Glazing is the laying of transparent colour over a dry under layer to create special and/or colour effects . |
| 3 | But they were not in Great Britain in 1984 , and adjacent areas with similar relatively isolated mining communities ( notably Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire ) differed very substantially not only in their support for the strike call but also in their level of industrial militancy over a substantial period of time . |
| 4 | You know , on er , sort of long process over a number of years . |
| 5 | The so-called ‘ disparity ’ is simply that pollen primarily provides an integrated record of regional vegetation over a large area , whereas macrofossils reflect strictly local patterns . |
| 6 | A thick mop of black hair over a man-boy 's smooth olive complexion . |
| 7 | Remember that velocity stands for the ratio of total spending over a period of time to the stock of money available . |
| 8 | With enormous gains in the white-collar suburbs , Labour became the party of bureaucrats , administrators and a progressive intelligentsia , all predisposed to seeing a greater share of public control over an increasing range of national affairs . |
| 9 | She says you have to have evidence of continued use over a period of time and in a variety of sources so that it 's not just very specialised and short-lived . |
| 10 | It arises from a combination of factors e.g. dampness and absence of adequate ventilation over a significant period of time . |
| 11 | They apply to the justification of the use of public power over a range of issues , for an extended period of time . |
| 12 | The new convention had been the subject of detailed negotiation over a number of years , with the incompatibility of legislation on advertising in the various countries and the amount of European-made programmes in particular providing obstacles to agreement ( see also p. 36494 ) . |
| 13 | Both the Listening Test and the Grammar Test have been the subject of rigorous research over a number of years , with up to forty different nationalities of students . |
| 14 | Day after day , she did what was expected of her and there was so little fire left in her that , when Mr Landor emptied a jug of red wine over a white damask tablecloth and kicked in her direction a cushion which split and sent feathers flying everywhere , she said not a word . |
| 15 | Life or death has come to depend on the proper functioning or malfunctioning of super-sensitive equipment over a couple of seconds . |
| 16 | Forget the idea of spreading material over a period of time or developing a number of different characters . ’ |
| 17 | Abstraction and theory imprison us , or try to do so , as if in a net , and the novel tests and demolishes the allegedly superior power of abstract thought over a thinking and feeling life : ‘ how far conceptualizing and theorizing divide you from the thing that is the object of theoretical attention . ’ |