Example sentences of "[adj] over [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With frequencies less than one kHz apart both are rendered unusable over a large area by light aircraft with the aforementioned ADF equipment . |
| 2 | We can distinguish two main kinds : ( a ) an emphasis on the ‘ informing spirit ’ of a whole way of life , which is manifest over the whole range of social activities but is most evident in ‘ specifically cultural ’ activities — a language , styles of art , kinds of intellectual work ; and ( b ) an emphasis on ‘ a whole social order ’ within which a specifiable culture , in styles of art and kinds of intellectual work , is seen as the direct or indirect product of an order primarily constituted by other social activities . |
| 3 | Height and weight charts are vital in determining the seriousness of the problem and are the best method of assessing whether the food intake is adequate over a certain period of time . |
| 4 | This criminal neglect has been particularly indefensible over the past couple of decades . |
| 5 | The most distinctive plover of the region , the commonest inland over the greater part of it , and the only Vanellus breeding over most of Europe . |
| 6 | They said tension was running high over the mass funeral of 38 of their soldiers whose graves were found close to the convoy 's route . |
| 7 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) has made it unequivocally clear over a long period of years that he is wholly opposed to unilateral devolution , which is what the Bill proposes . |
| 8 | This has been particularly clear over the last couple of years . |
| 9 | These proposed innovatory Keynesian policies were distinct from the economic policies of the Labour and Conservative parties , for they demanded the use of bank credit , the ending of private land ownership , and the use of public works programmes to swallow up over half a million unemployed over a short period of time . |
| 10 | The third , comparatively new , market segment , is one in which BP has become increasingly prominent over the past couple of years . |
| 11 | The sound of these great explosions was audible over a large part of the Earth 's surface : at Elsey Creek in South Australia , 3,224 kilometres from Krakatoa , the noise was loud enough to wake sleeping people , who described it as being similar to the sound of rock being blasted . |
| 12 | I am surely not alone in feeling profoundly sad over the so-called reprieve of certain regiments in the British Army . |
| 13 | This is because if it is not reserved as rent , the Stamp Office take the view that the application of the " contingency principle " means that stamp duty is payable on the full amount of VAT which may become payable over the whole term of the lease . |
| 14 | Because of this skill differential between insiders and outsiders , and hence the strong preference of firms to continue to employ insiders , the power of outsiders , who are unemployed , to affect the outcome of the wage bargain struck between firms and insiders is minimal over a significant range of wage changes . |
| 15 | If the deviation from Raoult 's law is sufficiently great , the mixture may no longer remain homogeneous over the complete range of compositions . |
| 16 | The compressibility of the solvent is equal to the molar volume of the solvent in solution , V 1 , and can be assumed to be unchanged over a small range of pressures , thus giving |
| 17 | These two are cognitively synonymous over a wide range of contexts : |
| 18 | During that , on live TV , President Bush , the leader of the United States of America , collapsed and was sick over the Prime Minister of Japan , the nation they had beaten in the war . |
| 19 | Other important effects of negative feedback are changes in the input and output impedances and improvement of the frequency response ( gain constant over a greater range of frequency ) . |
| 20 | Hence the output voltage , within the design limits , remains constant over a wide range of current and input voltage variations . |
| 21 | Of course , the fact that a price may be constant over a given interval of time may not itself mean that it is inflexible ; the price could be equal to its equilibrium value and the latter could in fact be constant as well . |
| 22 | Let us postulate the existence of a static magnetic field that is constant over a finite region of space , say |
| 23 | Show that the mean value of the force F between the two rings ( i.e. averaged over the periodic time of the alternating current ) is given by |
| 24 | Politically , this means that the technological system is pre-eminent over the social system in an enterprise . |
| 25 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 26 | Tei and Owen provide no breakdown of their data in terms of the angular separation between adapting and test stimuli on their " different " trials so it is net possible to see whether adaptation is effective over a greater range of orientations in the LVF compared to the RVF . |
| 27 | Blyton Lad did n't get the best of runs when runner-up to Hamas in a Listed race at Newmarket three weeks ago , but is more effective over the minimum trip on a stiff track . |
| 28 | Lawrence was unhappy over the outspoken challenge to his authority and axed Slaven from his Tranmere squad . |
| 29 | Now Stokes 's theorem relates an integral over a closed surface to another integral over the volume enclosed : . |
| 30 | You could set your back against the roughened old trunk , plant your feet securely on the wide bough and gaze out undisturbed over the great surges of greenery . |