Example sentences of "as [art] [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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1 | These up and down movements as the tip scans over the surface provide topographical information which a computer reassembles into an image of the sample . |
2 | These ranged from an economic blockade of Lithuania in April 1990 [ see pp. 37360-62 ] , and violent military intervention in the Baltics in January 1991 [ see pp. 37944-45 ] , through a continuing " battle of the laws " with the RFSFR , to efforts to mediate over or exploit inter-ethnic conflicts within and between seceding republics ( such as the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh and the South Ossetia dispute in Georgia — see p. 37971 ) . |
3 | And indeed the new landscape produced some fine dramatic compositions such as the railway viaduct over the smoking town of Stockport ; or the sight of Bradford at night from the moorland hills to the north ; or of the smoky silhouette of Nottingham on a winter evening as seen from the south-bound train on the Eastern Region line ; or the city of Sheffield in full blast on a murky morning ; even ( one thinks sometimes ) the sight of long gas-lit streets of red brick working-class houses in a Victorian town with not a tree or a bush in sight : only the lamps shining on pavements blanched by the autumn evening wind . |
4 | Patients reported about three times as many undesirable events in the six months preceding their illness as the comparison group over the same period . |
5 | So it is likely to use the right of return as a bargaining chip over territorial concessions , unless it believes it is strong enough to obtain both territory and a return . |
6 | LABOUR 'S proposals for higher income tax and national insurance have faded as a campaign issue over the last two weeks , but they continue to simmer in the background . |
7 | The third method of issue involves the Bank of England taking stock on to its own books and then selling this as a tap stock over a period of time in day-to-day dealings with GEMMs . |
8 | You 'll also need a quantity of bitumen emulsion for use as a tack coat over the existing surface . |
9 | Not that the Russians were much better , but they did have a few of the new German FW190S which Hitler had promised to Stalin as a goodwill gesture over the Poland deal . |
10 | However , since the liabilities covered by cl 14.2 are easy to insure against , many sellers offer this clause without any of the limitations in the phrases in square brackets , as a marketing advantage over their competitors . |
11 | The starting point can be either a known position such as a radio beacon over which the aircraft has flown or , which is more likely in the case of an accident , the crash position . |
12 | It also means that enquiries like , " Who has applied to us as a project engineer over the last year , and been rejected as not sufficiently experienced ? " can be answered with ease . |