Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] over a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be recommended that independent psychiatric or psychological assessment is made or that the sufferer is admitted for prolonged assessment over a period of time ( ten days or so ) in daily contact with the group of patients already in treatment . |
| 2 | Two veiled female figures leaned in exaggerated mourning over an urn in the Grecian taste of the 1810s . |
| 3 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 4 | The trusteeship crisis enabled the KDP to take the initiative in gaining popular support over a subject on which public opinion in Korea for once sided with the right . |
| 5 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |
| 6 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 7 | These have taken the form of protest meetings , marches and other types of direct action over a variety of issues . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As an example of the use to which these options were put in deciding the future lines of investigation in the project , it quickly became apparent by computing improved pictures over a range of plant ages and displaying the changes , that the measure of the changes was never likely to be large , and that the changes were not all in one direction . |
| 10 | In this thesis he describes a meticulous dietary study over a period of several years at the Juliana Children 's Hospital in a patient with coeliac disease , which started in 1936 ! |
| 11 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 12 | Now the Col des Cavales is an important pass to the Pave hut beside its deep blue , ice-infested lake , but it 's loose and nasty in the late afternoon : rusty cables hang from broken bolts over a parody of a path , so without axes we kicked down steep slush and bucket-stepped , slippery ice . |
| 13 | Moreover , even those studies where there does seem to be a clear relationship over a number of data points at different arousal levels ( e.g. Courts , 1942 ; Stennett , 1957 ; Bolanger & Feldman , described in Malmo 1959 ) can often be criticized for the possibility that the task used to induce arousal actually requires greater levels of attention at higher levels of arousal itself . |
| 14 | In Tameside the central department and the local authority were in direct conflict over a matter of administrative feasibility . |
| 15 | Roebuck , moved a famous and extremely detailed vote of censure on Palmerston 's foreign policy over a period of two decades , 2,000 – 3,000 volumes of manuscript correspondence were consulted by officials in the government 's attempt to produce a convincing rebuttal . |
| 16 | One result of this constant paradox is that while the police make statements welcoming research and applaud intellectual debate , they strive to impose rigid control over a system of preferred rules and regulations to negate open enquiry , so that systems are quietly but firmly deployed to deny the critical approach — as we shall see . |
| 17 | As always , it was difficult to judge the uphill putt over a kind of step . |
| 18 | social choice over a set of alternatives must depend on the orderings of the individuals only over these alternatives and not on ‘ irrelevant alternatives ’ ; |
| 19 | This latter is a longitudinal survey over a period of two and a half years following a structured sample of some 4,000 persons who registered as unemployed in May 1980 . |
| 20 | A Devon family has previously been reported in which a female in three successive generations has presented with multiple polyps requiring repeated surgery over a number of years . |
| 21 | Plowden established the principle that decisions involving substantial future expenditure should always be taken in the light of surveys of public expenditure over a number of years , and in relation to the prospective resources . |
| 22 | He draped his wet clothes over a chair in front of the stove and ladled rice and beans on to two plates . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | They apply to the justification of the use of public power over a range of issues , for an extended period of time . |
| 25 | Through the creation and use of databases in a number of different contexts over a period of time , pupils develop an awareness of the microcomputer as an information handling tool rather than a games machine or programming instrument , while , at the same time , developing valuable learning skills . |
| 26 | The experiments hit the scientific and popular headlines over a number of years before falling into disrepute when others found it quite hard even to train flatworms reliably on this pairing , let alone repeat the later steps in the procedure . |
| 27 | Australia 's Nationwide News agreed to an out-of-court settlement over an article about Jane 's marriage to farmer Alex Makim . |
| 28 | The one with Pavarotti and Sid Vicious fighting over a vial of dope |
| 29 | She decided a straightforward chat over a cup of tea was the neat move . |
| 30 | There was a major outcry in early February over a decision by officials of the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries to allow George Habash , the leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) , to enter France on Jan. 29 for medical treatment . |