Example sentences of "distribution of [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 For sex , argues Foucault , is the pivot of two axes along which the whole technology of life developed : it was the point of entry to the body , to the harnessing , identification and distribution of forces over the body ; and it was the entry to control and regulation of populations .
2 He proposed that the assumed uniform distribution of forces over any section within the specimen was a limiting state to which the forces in the real specimen approached , the further away from the extremities was the section under consideration .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 If evolutionary studies provided a vertical dimension within which objects could signify the development of societies , this was complemented by the growth of diffusionary studies in which the horizontal distribution of objects over the globe was thought to be further evidence for the movements of both peoples and ideas , for example , from origins in ancient Egypt or Germany .
6 Post-innovation performance of UK firms : an analysis of the distribution of benefits over the innovation cycle
7 Taylor ( 1964 ) in particular noted that the distribution of GSRs over distance travelled corresponded very closely to the distribution of actual accident figures over the same distance .
8 The final step is to use the results of these models to predict the distribution of population over other arbitrary areal units for which pixel land-cover counts can be obtained .
9 E(k) indicates the distribution of energy over different length scales .
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