Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [noun] over [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final element in the policy making process is the response to developments over which governments have no control . |
| 2 | First , it kept the school-leaver within the realms of dependence , emphasizing the need for guidance and employment advice ; and , secondly , it led to the eruption of a lively dispute between the Board of Education and the Board of Trade over which department should have final authority for adolescent workers in the administration of the Labour Exchanges Act 1909 . |
| 3 | ‘ There is as much concern in Pelkosenniemi about what is proposed for their holy mountain as there is in Mayo and throughout the West of Ireland over what is proposed for Croagh Patrick . |
| 4 | Before the whites came , he went on , no one in Australia was landless , since everyone inherited , as his or her private property , a stretch of the Ancestor 's song and the stretch of country over which the song passed . |
| 5 | Apparently , 15 and 16-year-olds have to remain in prison while the Home Office argues with the Department of Health over what is to happen to them . |
| 6 | Accepting that a group of countries should proceed to a political or monetary union would be to accept the creation of a Greater European Superstate on the continent of Europe over which the non participants would have minimal control and which would be dominated by Germany . |
| 7 | Feminist criticism and research has helped to increase the number of women subjects in mainstream European and North American psychology , and the range of topics over which they are studied . |
| 8 | Clearly , the range of frequencies over which a potential divider constructed solely from resistors acts as a satisfactory attenuator is restricted . |
| 9 | Here again there is negligible waste of power , but unfortunately the range of frequencies over which a transformer will act as a potential or current divider is restricted by the behaviour of the core , there being both a lower and upper limit . |
| 10 | Of course this makes sense in the case of insanity , automatism or involuntary movement but the range of factors over which one has no control is obviously wider than such clear instances of total lack of control . |
| 11 | In Dew v. Parsons ( 1819 ) 2 B. & Ald. 562 an attorney was held entitled to set off against a claim by a sheriff the excess amount which he had paid to the sheriff for the issue of warrants over what the sheriff was legally entitled to charge . |
| 12 | By the time the gentry had increased the quantity of land over which they exercised direct control ( and improved its average quality ) , most of them were keen to sell off the rest . |
| 13 | The people over whom governments have authority , the kind of considerations which their instructions pre-empt and the areas of activities over which they have authority are all , to the extent that they are determined by the normal justification thesis , less extensive than the claims made by governments and by the law . |
| 14 | Still more important , one would then need an account of the state as the sort of thing over which capital could exercise power — a set of institutions with no autonomy of their own . |
| 15 | While it is true that the longer the period of time over which the child 's language is sampled , the more representative that sample will be of the child 's underlying linguistic knowledge , in practical terms the length of any recording will be constrained by the time available for transcription and coding . |
| 16 | They also agreed to a near doubling of aid to the Third World , but failed to reach a common position on the period of time over which the increase would be phased in . |
| 17 | Dahl focused upon the making of decisions over which there was an observable conflict of opinion and he studied how that conflict was resolved between the different individuals and groups involved . |
| 18 | We have so far considered corporate decision-making power in the sense of discretion over what to produce , in what quantities , and at what price . |
| 19 | On the other hand it is equally important not to minimize the effects of sentencing practice on penal policy by assuming that the courts are at the mercy of pressures over which they have no control , and to which they can only passively respond . |
| 20 | In addition , the scale of measurement over which soil erosion occurs affects the measurement itself . |
| 21 | It is also the item of expenditure over which a mother is most likely to exert control . |
| 22 | Try to increase your attention span and extend the length of time over which you can work effectively . |
| 23 | Their half-lives of about 30 years will determine the length of time over which the doses will be delivered . |
| 24 | The emphasis here on the length of time over which sound appraisal is built up , and the linking of self-evaluation with evaluation by other people , points to a broad approach to appraisal . |
| 25 | The number of towns over which low-level flying was banned was increased from 25 to 61 and the hours of low-level flying conducted by the West German Air Force was to be reduced from 23,000 to 21,000 each year , although the number of hours for other NATO air forces remained at 45,000 . |
| 26 | The number of years over which loans could be repaid was a matter for each individual authority , subject to maxima laid down by the Government for given categories of assets . |
| 27 | On June 24 in Luxembourg EC Social Affairs Ministers reached agreement in principle on introducing a maximum working week of 48 hours across the EC ( although the number of months over which the 48-hour limit should be averaged remained unresolved ) . |
| 28 | The region of temperature over which the viscosity of the liquid increases to the glassy level is called the " glass transition " . |
| 29 | The value of shares over which each participant may at any time be granted an option under the Executive Scheme when added to the aggregate of the values of shares ( as at the date of grant of the options ) comprised in outstanding options granted in the preceding ten years under the Executive Scheme and any other employee share option scheme operated by the Company ( other than a savings related share options scheme ) is limited to four times the participant 's annual salary . |
| 30 | She wants to know whether she was judged on the piece of sculpture itself ; and if so is it not true that time alone can judge a work of art ? or was she judged on her talent ; if so , is it right that she should be judged on a part of life over which she has no control ? |