Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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1 | CAPTURE THE VICTORY OF SCIENCE OVER TIME . |
2 | Then , place a sheet of glass over the design and trace the outlines on to the stiff card that you will be using for your stencil pattern . |
3 | Continue in this way until all the seaweed has been prepared , then cover each piece with a clean sheet of blotting paper and place a couple of newspapers over the top . |
4 | Place a slice of avocado over each slice of grapefruit and arrange attractively in lines down a serving plate . |
5 | Place a block of wood over the plastic tube and knock into the ground , occasionally placing the clothes line pole into the tube to check the tube is vertical |
6 | He talked religion with the great Erasmus Darwin in Derby , preached to sometimes vast congregations from Unitarian pulpits — ‘ my Sermons spread a sort of sanctity over my Sedition ’ — and returned in triumph to Bristol with the names of several hundred new subscribers . |
7 | Keycard systems hold a number of advantages over traditional cylinder locks for both the guest and the hotelier . |
8 | He had a strong feeling that he wanted to dash back to the Romano-British section and break a piece of statuary over the bastard 's head . |
9 | If the pond-building books fail to acknowledge Murphy 's Law , it is nowhere more evident than at the point where neat diagrams demonstrate the laying of slabs over flap of liner . |
10 | Drop the loop of string over the pins , draw it taut to form a triangle with a pencil point . |
11 | Try to increase your attention span and extend the length of time over which you can work effectively . |
12 | But matters were so arranged that for most the outlook was not completely bleak ; almost everyone could arrive eventually at a state of relative freedom from intimidation and enjoy a measure of authority over others . |
13 | Lay a bed of mortar over a base of gravel or fine hardcore . |
14 | Lay a piece of paper over the artwork and draw on the actual positions of the components , showing the locations of all pinouts and terminals clearly . |
15 | The corollary of the possession of power by companies is that the individuals , interest groups , and communities affected by it suffer a lack of control over the conditions which determine how they live their lives . |
16 | As compared with the more usual situation in which we only know the activity of people over a short period , such data raise some challenging statistical and econometric problems . |
17 | Other feminist writers , such as Overfield ( 1981 ) , Wallsgrove ( 1980 ) and Fee ( 1983 ) have suggested that dichotomies such as nature/culture , subject/object , emotional/rational are harmful because they imply the superiority of culture over nature , the objective over the subjective , and the rational over the emotional . |
18 | Facing ever increasing numbers of Norse raids the Mages of Saphery draw a shroud of mists over the eastern sea approaches to Ulthuan . |
19 | So , I mean , what 's the point of you know making it look really , really nice and you know , all you could is just slap a coat of paint over it ! |
20 | Note the coat of arms over the door and the fine plasterwork — with the date 1659 — over the fireplace . |
21 | The heads identified as JYM thus exercise a form of control over the process of viewing and apprehension which is normally denied to portraiture . |
22 | I love the way of life over here . |
23 | The cryptic initials traditionally cast a veil of secrecy over the sitter 's identity and their gender , masking the subject through a process of partial revelation , that requires the intervention of a reader with privileged knowledge to complete the act of portraiture . |
24 | ‘ We play a lot of games over the next three or four weeks and I would be stuck if Ironside was injured . |
25 | Bill Clinton 's defeat of George Bush in the US presidential elections cast an air of uncertainty over the talks . |
26 | ‘ With moped racing you can pick up a 50cc for about £20 , almost literally throw a bucket of paint over it and you 're away . ’ |
27 | Devouring animals ( eg lions , griffins , dolphins , snakes and panthers ) symbolise the triumph of death over life . |
28 | An individual can not , for instance , as such have a right of way over my land , but only as owner of some adjacent piece of land . |
29 | Votes are successively transferred from candidates who have a surplus of votes over and above the quota and from candidates excluded as having the smallest number of votes in the relevant count . |
30 | Pattern-notes ( sometimes called " mind-maps " ) can fulfil many of your basic requirements of analytical note-making and they have a number of advantages over their over-used linear equivalent . |