Example sentences of "over [art] surface [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( v ) Allow the cells to spread over the surface for about 30 sec then pick them up by touching the surface of the solution with the plastic-coated slide . |
| 2 | Woolley flattened out , turned right and prowled over the surface for about a quarter of a mile . |
| 3 | Distances s measured over the surface between a pair of points whose coordinate separations are x and y will be given by Pythagoras ' theorem |
| 4 | It hurls itself around the island and in seconds the sea is alive , ugly waves crashing over the boats , white horses flicking over the surface on the hooves of the wind . |
| 5 | One of the most beautiful uses of pas de bourrée courus is when Ashton places his danseuse in her partner 's arms as she floats over the surface of the floor as if in a dream like ecstasy . |
| 6 | ‘ Now if , instead of having a single interface between the two liquids , you emulsify the two ( like oil and vinegar in French dressing ) the reaction occurs over the surface of each suspended droplet , creating a capsule . ’ |
| 7 | Using a firm press-release motion , work alternate thumb pads rhythmically over the surface of the sole . |
| 8 | But if noise is the point at which language buckles and culture fails , then you could argue that noise occurs in moments , tiny breakages and stresses dispersed all over the surface of music , all kinds of music . |
| 9 | Tin has a low melting point ( 232°C ) , and tinning simply involves wiping a thin layer of molten tin over the surface of copper , bronze or brass . |
| 10 | In this technique a V-profile chisel , the graver , is pushed over the surface of the metal in order to remove a sliver of metal . |
| 11 | Normally the wall is protected by a waterproof viscoelastic layer of mucus which forms a continuous layer over the surface of the underlying mucosa ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 12 | Make life simpler for yourself and better for the seedlings by sowing thinly in rows , rather than scattering the seeds randomly over the surface of the compost . |
| 13 | Nail over the surface of the panel from the centre at 150mm ( 6 in ) intervals to give a flat , rigid base . |
| 14 | The results contained in the Report suggest total losses of between 0.8 and 2.0 inches per day over the surface of the canal . |
| 15 | when we pass our fingers over the surface of our faces , |
| 16 | The more phosphate that is available , the more algae grow and multiply , sometimes to such an extent that they form a dense mat over the surface of the water . |
| 17 | He could see it skimming over the surface of the black waters of the Liffey far below . |
| 18 | ‘ High or low will seldom suit the taste of a painter who will always move over the surface of his near grounds till the component parts of his subject appear to him to be arranged in the best possible order . ’ |
| 19 | In fact it has been known since the late 1950s ( see for example Nature , vol. 208 , p 423 ) that Po is widely distributed in the environment , and in man , as a result of atmospheric fall-out of the decay products of natural radon-222 , with an abundance in northern temperate latitudes of about 0.06 curie per sq.km or of the order of 10 6 curies in total over the surface of the world land mass . |
| 20 | These branch off from the main artery , called the aorta , and then divide into lots of smaller branches which are all over the surface of the heart . |
| 21 | The sketches seemed to be of a great age , but over the surface of some of them were drawn in fresher colours smaller and more recent scenes , and rude forms of animals , such as the kangaroo , wallaby , porcupine , crocodile , etc . ’ |
| 22 | The oil paint lazily moves over the surface of the paintings ; in places its application is to thick that it seems to be rotting and falling away . |
| 23 | For decades during the twentieth century it was heresy to give any credit to the ideas of Alfred Wegener ( 1880–1930 ) , and others before him , that the continents slowly moved in different directions over the surface of the globe . |
| 24 | Even though the epidermis appears to be stretched taut over the surface of a structure such as a growing limb bud , its response to wounding is to close over the lesion , rather than to gape more widely . |
| 25 | Integrated over the surface of the impactor , this difference produces the drag force of equation ( 1 ) . |
| 26 | As TV poured over the surface of everyday life its programmes made fewer and fewer concessions to pre-existing forms , institutions , media , manners . |
| 27 | Individual cells may crawl about over the surface of the sponge like amoebae . |
| 28 | Even so , they are highly accomplished flyers , shooting over the surface of a pond in a blur of gauzy wings at up to 30 kph . |
| 29 | Two feluccas glided over the surface of the water like birds . |
| 30 | ‘ When the blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe , he does n't notice that the track he has covered is curved . |