Example sentences of "over [art] [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 By expanding their rule over the rest of Spain the Romans acquired the Douro , the Tagus and the mineral deposits of the Asturias .
2 A ripple of life went over the face of Mark the publisher 's assistant .
3 He pauses , his mind running over the sort of life the couple led , the pressures , the way the split might have come .
4 The news came as British Olympic chiefs demanded that confusion over the status of clenbuterol the drug at the centre of the controversy should be quickly cleared up by their international counterparts .
5 This success lies behind his translation to Canterbury in the following year ; thereafter , until his death in 1381 , he presided over a period of taxation the scale of which exceeded even that of the early years of the reign .
6 By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled :
7 Where information , particularly of a detailed nature , is to be collected over a period of time the panel has clear attractions .
8 Over a period of time the effects of changes in personal circumstances and company policy mean that a viable partnership will need to recruit new partners and plan for effective induction .
9 This does not add much to the cost of the order , and over a period of time the extra components build up into a useful stock of parts .
10 The masculine energy is made available , and over a period of time the woman can crystallize that energy into a bond that will hold fast .
11 Over a period of time the system can deteriorate , suffer interference , misalignments , and indifferent maintenance .
12 Over a period of time the particles settle .
13 Over a period of weeks the different teams meet to review and plan ahead .
14 Over a number of sessions the proportion of subjects showing a right-ear preference for verbal stimuli tends to increase due to the greater probability of change among subjects showing an initial left ear advantage ( Blumstein , Goodglass and Tartter , 1975 ; Shankweiler and Studdert-Kennedy , 1975 ) .
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