Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [noun] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others . |
| 2 | The advantage of fondant over royal icing for covering cakes is that it is much easier and quicker to make , is more pliable and has a softer texture that many people prefer . |
| 3 | While classical factors were often present , and for brief periods predominated , Keynesian factors were the proximate forces accounting for the rise in unemployment over this period . |
| 4 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 5 | For a variety of reasons Stalin rejected a ‘ Finnish ’ solution in Eastern Europe in preference to a security formula based on ideological conformity and the maintenance of control over these countries ' internal as well as external policies . |
| 6 | Its organization was similar in that it was controlled by persons of relatively high social status , that ransoming was a major source of profit , and that the transporting of animals over long distances was usual when a payment was not forthcoming . |
| 7 | So whatever the numerical distribution of jobs or of unemployment , the tentacles of control over those jobs , and over the functioning of the economy as a whole , in the main lead back — if they stay within Britain at all — to London . |
| 8 | The proliferation of disputes over scarce water resources , particularly between states bordering the Nile , Euphrates and Jordan rivers , attests to the impact of resource depletion , as does the relationship between deforestation and desertification . |
| 9 | Configured like the reticulated rib-cage of some enormous alien creature , long dead and looming over them , the vault appeared not to have been carved but rather rubbed into shape painstakingly , no doubt by the labour of slaves over many decades , millennia earlier . |
| 10 | The Witches have received backing from the Speedway Control Board and the BSPA for their appeal to the Department of Employment over last week 's ruling to refuse a work permit . |
| 11 | Apart from its convenience as a legitimation of the rule of white over coloured , rich over poor , it is perhaps best explained as a mechanism by means of which a fundamentally inegalitarian society based upon a fundamentally egalitarian ideology rationalised its inequalities , and attempted to justify and defend those privileges which the democracy implicit in its institutions must inevitably challenge . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that the effect of GATT over most of the postwar years has been to remove some of the protection afforded to national markets . |
| 13 | Despite the murmurs of anxiety over recent months , none of us considered realistically it could possibly happen . |
| 14 | The lines of division over political unity and economic integration versus association and cooperation had already been clarified and hardened in the previous debates over the future of Europe . |
| 15 | In order to engage in comparisons over time we were faced with a dilemma stemming from the change in the range of newspapers over this period . |
| 16 | ( For the advantages of adoption over long-term foster care see Triseliotis , 1983 and Triseliotis and Hill , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | In the standard b -boundary construction , the Riemannian manifold is the bundle of frames over space-time having a positive definite metric induced by the affine connection . |
| 18 | More than any other lens system , the pair should help cosmologists to evaluate the Hubble constant ( giving the rate at which the Universe is growing ) by directly tracing the geometry of space over vast distances . |
| 19 | In due course , after the ties that bound nobles and peasants had been finally severed , they were to become elective Justices of the Peace with jurisdiction over all estates of the realm . |
| 20 | Moreover under William III , who was a foreigner , and Anne , who was a woman and a stupid one , the influence of Parliament over foreign policy grew rapidly . |
| 21 | Because the percentage of adults over that age , presumably doing full time A level courses |
| 22 | D. With modern machinery and techniques of building we are capable of making vast changes in a landscape within a very short time and some of these changes may affect the lives of people over large areas or in many different parts of the UK . |
| 23 | The surplus of cost over fair value attributed to the net assets ( excluding goodwill ) of subsidiary or associated undertakings acquired during the year shall be written off directly to reserves . |
| 24 | The surplus of cost over fair value attributed to the net assets ( excluding goodwill ) of subsidiary or associated undertakings acquired during the year shall be written off directly to reserves . |
| 25 | In response to his requests for assurances on the safety of control over nuclear weapons , he was told that nuclear weapons remained under single control and that disarmament was continuing according to plan . |
| 26 | Second we turn to the war itself : the shock of destruction , the determination to rebuild and the emergence of consensus over central direction . |
| 27 | Thus during a visit to Moscow by the Malaysian Prime Minister , Datuk Hussein Onn , in September 1979 Kosygin expressed support for the ZOPFAN resolution since its implementation ‘ would establish a precondition for the widening of the process of détente over all the Asian continent ’ . |
| 28 | Using the work of social anthropologists and social psychologists to get closer to an understanding of the unique parts of Japanese culture , great play has been made of the primacy of group over individual interests . |
| 29 | But the expedition also gave Gould a greater insight into the distribution of species over all Australia ; it suggested to him , in comparison with his recent knowledge of New South Wales and Van Diemen 's Land , which species might be stationary and which dispersed over a greater area . |
| 30 | Chan , Chan and Karolyi ( 1991 ) found that the distribution of returns over five-minute intervals for S&P500 futures from 1984 to 1989 was leptokurtic with fat tails . |