Example sentences of "in [art] [noun sg] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Since 1985 profits growth in the division has been restricted to an average of less than 5 per cent a year and as 40 per cent of revenues come from the US the one third fall in the dollar over the period obviously affected the outcome as have rising R&D costs .
2 Jimmy Hamilton was Palace 's regular centre-half for six seasons and appeared in the defence over the period of eight Football League campaigns between 1923–24 and 1930–31 .
3 The most likely means of achieving agreement on this appeared to lie in the dialogue over the formation of a Joint Nuclear Control Committee ( JNCC ) — the instrument of inter-Korean nuclear inspection contained within the joint denuclearization declaration — which had begun on Feb. 27 .
4 Development from the 2-cell stage to the late 8-cell/early 16-cell ( morula ) stage ( Figure 1 , panels 16 22 ) occurs in the oviduct over a period of approximately 47 h .
5 The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years .
6 He looked at his reflection in the window over the sink .
7 After the grubs have eaten extensive ‘ galleries ’ in the wood over a period of years , with the resultant dust being emitted in bun-shaped pellets , the larva enters a pupal stage lasting three to six weeks and emerges as a fully grown beetle .
8 She has not seen him since half past six , when they met in the kitchen over a salami sandwich .
9 They were sitting in the kitchen over a cup of tea .
10 at them in the kitchen over the sink ,
11 Certainly , the reaction from analysts has on the whole been favourable — although there are some cynical rumblings in the press over the timing of a restatement that boosted profits in the midst of a recession .
12 I 'll see you in the pub over the road — first one you come to . ’
13 It was the usual Friday get-together , the alcohol-free lager and prawn salad session in the pub over the road , well within range of bleeps and so heavily attended by relays of medical and senior nursing staff .
14 In the mirror over the washbasin she applies pancake makeup , lipstick and eyeliner , and combs her hair .
15 In the illustration a man sat by a fireplace , reading a newspaper , his face obscured , the scene reflected at an angle in the mirror over the mantelpiece .
16 She jumped up and saw with dismay her reflection in the mirror over the fireplace .
17 Foundries and mines , factories and tenements were spreading outwards from the old heart of the town , and an ever-present pall of smoke and soot hung in the air over the river .
18 Keith gives the American football a good kick — high and spiralling , it hangs in the air over the Heath .
19 A white burning spot hung in the sky over the yacht .
20 In late 1940 he reported in the War Illustrated his sighting of a ‘ V ’ for victory sign apparently blazed by a Hawker Hurricane in the sky over the village of Firle in Sussex .
21 ‘ A handed-down tale of how a vast yawning chasm opened once in the sky over the Forest of Darkness ; of how the people in that part of Ireland saw a glimpse of the true world of the Dark Ireland : the fiery furnaces where the manacles and the chains of evil are forged ; the towering Black Looms of the necromancers ; dark evil citadels and huge screeching night-crows and ravens ; the silhouettes of wraiths and banshees and hags .
22 ‘ After many months had passed , ’ said Raynor , ‘ they say that the chasm was wrenched open from within , and the gaping hole appeared in the sky over the Forest of Darkness .
23 Taff was pointing at two bright flares hanging in the sky over the farm a short distance away .
24 On the morning of 24 August ( the ninth day before the kalends of September ) when the various Plinys were all in Misenum , a small town across the bay of Naples from Vesuvius , a curious large cloud was seen in the sky over the volcano .
25 But ever since the Government became embroiled in the row over the plan to close 31 pits , local beer lovers have veered away from the pub with the Prime Ministerial name .
26 The professor was closely involved in a series of benevolence programmes for Israel , including the B'nai B'rith charity organisation , and was recently in Poland to negotiate a settlement in the row over the presence of a Catholic convent on the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp .
27 He took me often to organ recitals ( Goss Custard and Thalben Ball ) and to the Proms , where he sat in the balcony over the orchestra cupping his good ear in his hand .
28 We then passed beneath a ranch fence : Parque Nacional Torres del Paine , it announced , and in the distance over a range of low brown grasslands were the sharp spires of a dozen oddly-shaped mountains , twisted and contorted and coloured like no other mountains we had ever seen before .
29 In the distance over the mountain , thunder sounds .
30 In the distance over the autobahn it was becoming hazy .
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