Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 2 | Hand studied 65 theses on entomology produced within the colleges of the University of London over a five year period . |
| 3 | First , those who stress the symbolic role of leaders , or the concentration of power over a few absolutely critical decisions in the hands of a power elite , view leadership as a zero-sum game . |
| 4 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 5 | The sounds are the same as those of daylight , yet somehow the night magnifies and sharpens the creak of a yielding block , the sigh of air over a shroud , the stretching of a sail , the hiss of water sliding sleek against the hull , the curl of a quarter-wave falling away , and the thump as a wave strikes the cutwater to be sheared into two bright slices of whiteness . |
| 6 | We regard it as an inhuman act , they say , to keep a man facing the agony of execution over a long extended period . |
| 7 | It provides a rather more formal learning structure , and given the price of beer over a session can probably be had at a similar cost . |
| 8 | The increased powers of the Secretary of State over a centrally directed system of curriculum and assessment and , indeed , over teachers ' conditions of service , make it ‘ safe ’ for the government to increase the managerial responsibilities of schools . |
| 9 | Similarly , we can look at the iconography of coins over a shorter period . |
| 10 | By interviewing a subsample of women from the original study it will be possible to plot the stability of self-esteem over a 7 to 8 year period and its relationship to changing social circumstances . |
| 11 | A recent specialist Soviet study on Southeast Asia argued that the term ‘ neutralisation ’ as distinct from the related terms ‘ neutrality ’ and ‘ neutralism ’ contained the idea of activity over a more or less defined period of time ; it implied a process of gradual and progressive development . |
| 12 | The group says that the survival of evidence over a period of years defies expectations and improves the prospects for enforcement of the recently signed international Chemical Weapons Convention ( see Nature 361 , 105 ; 1993 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 4 Entry The right for the Tenant and all persons expressly or by implication authorised by the Tenant to enter upon other parts of the Centre and ( if any ) the Adjoining Property to carry out works to the Premises where such works would otherwise not be possible , or may be possible but rendered more expensive than they would otherwise be if this right was available The problem of access over a neighbour 's land has been greatly alleviated by the passage of the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 which sets out a procedure whereby a person may obtain a court order permitting access to a neighbour 's property in order to carry out works to protect , repair or maintain their property in circumstances where the neighbour refuses consent to such access . |
| 15 | The Trail , which is being sponsored to the tune of £300,000 over a minimum of three years by Direct Line Insurance , will visit 6 cities during April and July , spending a week at each . |
| 16 | This case , in effect , turns on whether the family proceedings court can keep the power of review over a care order by making directions in relation to the care order . |
| 17 | Gas supply agreements often provide for the supply of gas over a long period , sometimes for a decade or more . |
| 18 | Rather the state is the central site for the negotiation of conflict over a whole range of issues , in which the state is a participant though not necessarily a consistently dominant or united one . |