Example sentences of "[noun] over a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 2 | Phalanxes of East German border guards barred the way to Westerners trying to use the crossing-points in the Berlin Wall as East Germany 's Communist leaders began celebrating their 40-year rule over an increasingly restive population . |
| 3 | Most drama schools final productions are staged over a similar sort of schedule , which means agents are asked to see students ' work over a fairly compressed period . |
| 4 | Crushed stone paths wound through beds of early spring flowers to the garden 's heart , where a fierce bronze wolf stood guard over an almost magical fountain , water cascading from its mouth into a reflecting pool with a soft , musical murmur . |
| 5 | ‘ Set stocking ’ , in which animals are given free range over a relatively large area and not moved regularly , is the most labour-saving system of grazing . |
| 6 | These two documents named places over a very wide area of Italy ( the duchy of Rome , Tuscany , the Campagna , the Ravenna exarchate , Pentapolis , Sabina ) rather than defined frontiers . |
| 7 | Our use of creatinine molar ratios has removed the source of experimental error involved in collecting total urine volumes over a relatively short period , and has revealed the existence of a log/ linear relation between concomitant changes in gastric acid secretion and UAO . |
| 8 | Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little . |
| 9 | Our fund-raising has been just a little slower during the current year after the bumper total achieved in 1985 , but nevertheless it has been most gratifying that we continue to receive contributions from so many classes over a very wide area . |
| 10 | Comparison of the contents of the first two editions of Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , published in 1965 and 1983 , reveals just how completely and all-pervasively this change took place over a very short period of time . |
| 11 | These varying conditions , all taking place over a comparatively short time , have had spectacular effects on the evolution of the mammals of South-East Asia . |
| 12 | The material is suitable in all filters , especially as a pre-filter over a more cloggable media . |
| 13 | David Clarke suggested use of resources over a very wide area by the lake village at Glastonbury in the Iron Age , and John Coles suggests that the pattern of land use in the Levels shown by Michael Williams for the medieval period probably has a prehistoric ancestry . |
| 14 | Each reckoned that off-road , they could beat the other over a suitably undulating course . |
| 15 | Like weather forecasting , we can be fairly accurate in our predictions over a very short period but looking further ahead is really a matter of guesswork . |
| 16 | We sailed northward up the Minch on a sultry , sweltering day over a most unpleasant ground swell . |
| 17 | Elicitation procedures make it possible to examine a very broad spectrum of linguistic abilities in a systematic manner over a relatively short period of time . |
| 18 | He takes great trouble over a seemingly endless stream of difficulties . |
| 19 | The apes being taught are therefore without an evolutionarily conferred advantage that human children enjoy — that of employing learning techniques , and being initiated by their elders , in a way that has presumably been refined by selection pressures over a very long time . |
| 20 | They might make their own bridge over a very small stream or ditch and find out what will float underneath . |
| 21 | If the British system of policing is a social construction geared to the maintenance of élitist power and is primarily concerned to keep control over a materially disadvantaged underclass , then these same ‘ dangerous classes ’ seem to have willingly entered into this game of power-relations with their masters ; and by doing so they have deflected attention away from their own lack of privilege and power . |
| 22 | However , these increasingly centralized and expensive units only enforce control over a very narrow range of public or ‘ street visible ’ acts of social disorder . |
| 23 | If the police are to continue to exercise control over an increasingly pluralist society , which is better educated and less willing simply to accept any version of events handed out by the powerful , then it seems essential they should avoid scrutiny yet suggest they are totally accountable to the democratic ideal . |
| 24 | Fussler and Simon , in Patterns in the use of books in large research libraries , affirmed that ‘ past use over a sufficiently long period is an excellent and by far the best predictor of future use ’ , although they observed , ‘ the confidence limits of prediction vary significantly from one subject to another ’ . |
| 25 | The Bath Clinic in Avon is cutting the price of vasectomies to £180 to attract patients over a traditionally quiet Christmas . |
| 26 | The reading passages , in particular , are intelligent and well-informed , and reflect the opinion of the best of our modern media over a very broad range of interest . |
| 27 | If many banks and lagoons are at very similar depths , it would mean a remarkably and almost incomprehensibly uniform subsidence over a very large area , confined , incidentally , largely to tropical and especially tropical oceanic areas . |
| 28 | Examining patients with and without uraemia enabled us to look at the gastric mucosal damage over a very wide range ( 43 fold ) of in vivo ammonia production making it unlikely that any association was missed . |
| 29 | Add the chickpeas , tomatoes , sugar , garam masala and seasoning to taste , and cook for 30 minutes over a very gentle heat , stirring frequently . |
| 30 | This apparent advantage over a predominantly rural rebel zone would only be maintained , however , if the Republic could hold on to its territory , overcome the isolation of the north coast from the rest of the zone , put its precious metal reserves to good use , pay for essential raw materials and feed its large urban population . |