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

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1 It may well be that a fairer test must await an examination of the poll tax over an entire electoral cycle .
2 In evidence to the Environment Committee in 1986 the following report was given on the record of the Church Commissioners over the previous seventeen years , during which the future of 1,053 redundant churches was decided .
3 Would the hon. Lady have supported the resignation of the Home Secretary over the escapes from Brixton ?
4 She ladled a little of the court bouillon over the fat bits of mackerel .
5 As far as the company is concerned , the excess of the purchase price over the subscription price for the original shares ( including any premium paid on issue ) will be treated as a distribution .
6 Morgan , MacDonald and Hilgard ( 1974 ) , for instance , have related hypnosis to mediation by the right hemisphere and Cohen , Rosen and Goldstein ( 1976 ) claimed to show that sexual orgasm in humans is associated with increased amplitude of the wave form over the right but not the left hemisphere .
7 This enabled someone to establish the numerical co-ordinates of the movement of the cutting tool over the entire sequence of operations and to transfer this to code on punched tape which was then fed into the machine .
8 So what was the point of discussing any of the myriad amendments over the past six months if so many of them could be shrugged off as ‘ ineffective ’ ?
9 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation , a major lender to Bond but one which cut its exposure to about A$1billion earlier this year , said it would study the implications of the NAB action over the weekend .
10 Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time .
11 He stopped in the middle of the swing bridge over the canal and watched a couple of local boys fishing from the bank .
12 Given the propensity of the Academy jury over the years to equate serious acting with stars ' willingness to make themselves unattractive , it is surprising that Dustin did not win hands down .
13 A suitable feature of the waveform can be selected for generation of the position signal over the required speed range ( Kuo and Cassat , 1977 ) .
14 The domination of the cinema screen over the audience has also resulted in experiments with ‘ smell-o-vision ’ , but so far we have thankfully been spared Aldous Huxley 's vision of ‘ the feelies ’ .
15 The marketing of the share sale over the coming weeks is designed to attract the highest possible number of private investors .
16 We took about £150m out of the operating companies over a couple of years
17 What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships .
18 In two careful analyses of the survey evidence over the past four months , the Washington Post and the American Political Report , an influential newsletter , have come to broadly similar conclusions .
19 So it goes on , with mentions of current ripples up to 10 feet and more in height , a gravel delta 200 square miles in area , the stripping off of the loess cover over an area of almost 2000 square miles and so on .
20 The expansion of the Royal Navy and the growth of the mercantile marine , however , intensified the alarm of the Navy Board over the shortage of timber .
21 It is doubtful whether such an explanation of naturally occurring polymorphism could be tested without long-term , detailed recording , not only of the variety of genetic changes occurring within clover populations , but at the same time of a detailed recording of the known hazards in the life of the clover plant over the seasons and the years .
22 A report by Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has attacked government plans for the expansion of the gas industry over the next five years .
23 This session allows for an in depth examination of the drinking diaries over the last five weeks — identifying the risky circumstances or situations … .
24 But in the late 1960s the relative autonomy of the teaching profession over the curriculum came increasingly under attack .
25 A government committed to a sustained reduction in the growth of the money supply over a number of years will find this very difficult unless it restricts the size of the public-sector deficit .
26 Control of the money supply over the medium and long term
27 There is a further reason why it is difficult to restrain the growth of the money supply over the longer term .
28 It is difficult to control the growth of the money supply over the longer term without controlling the growth of the PSBR .
29 The proportions of the decency panelling over the short half-canopies were different giving them a squarer appearance .
30 As we noted at the beginning of this chapter , because there is no consensus either among or between the different sectors of the village population over the answers to these questions , any overall conclusion about ‘ loss of community ’ is impossible .
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