Example sentences of "over a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli Labour government 's resort to harsh collective punishment tactics reflected its anxiety over a recent increase in guerrilla activities by Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) . |
| 2 | The temple can only be approached over a narrow drawbridge of truesteel . |
| 3 | We observed a chemotactic response to MIP-1 β over a narrow range of cytokine concentrations ( Fig. 1 a ; and data not shown ) ; MIP-1 β has been reported to induce myeloid cell chemotaxis at higher concentrations and apparently T-cell chemotaxis . |
| 4 | These consist of two linear portions whose slopes differ and closer inspection reveals that over a narrow range of temperature of between 2 and 5 K the slope changes continuously . |
| 5 | From the curves it can be seen that there is a rapid change in log over a narrow range of temperature corresponding to the glass transition . |
| 6 | I remarked on what to me was exotic to the doctor over a hasty breakfast of coffee , bread and cheese . |
| 7 | Norm had to call her , then shake her , and she would stagger downstairs and hang like an exhausted alcoholic over a clutched mug of coffee . |
| 8 | Consequently the solution and the associated absence of attenuation corresponds to u being in the range -1 to 0 , that is , For particular reactive impedances , this last condition is satisfied over a certain range of frequency . |
| 9 | Thus any correctly terminated filter section with purely reactive elements perfectly passes signals over a certain range of frequency defined by the inequality ( 9.16 ) and appropriately known as the pass or transmission band but introduces a phase shift given by equation ( 9.15 ) in this frequency band . |
| 10 | Examined over a certain length of time , the course of Picasso 's development , though often paradoxical and breathtaking in its rapidity , can be clearly charted . |
| 11 | Height and weight charts are vital in determining the seriousness of the problem and are the best method of assessing whether the food intake is adequate over a certain period of time . |
| 12 | They hope that a jobs package will go some way to defusing criticism over a perceived lack of direction on tackling the long dole queues . |
| 13 | What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve . |
| 14 | The best businesses over a long period of time have been the ones with a single thrust . |
| 15 | Thus , over a long period of time , stone , glass and metals acquire a distinctive patina which the faker must try and imitate . |
| 16 | Also the junction between the uncorroded metal and the applied patina is very sharp , whereas a patina which has developed over a long period of time will have eaten into the metal in a very irregular and quite characteristic manner that is very difficult to imitate . |
| 17 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 18 | However , over a long period of time and association , horses and ponies can alter their thought patterns and learn to think more like each other , and to become more empathic . |
| 19 | But cases of die links between different places or over a long period of time are unusual . |
| 20 | There are few other industries in which , over a long period of time , revenues have covered less than half of costs . |
| 21 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 22 | The accumulation of data over a long period of time is a situation that lends itself well to the use of a microcomputer . |
| 23 | What was less obvious was the effect on the system as a whole , which had evolved over a long period of time influenced by a variety of political and economical pressures , and not necessarily in a methodical manner . |
| 24 | In fact the opposite seems to have occurred because Grevy 's zebra is in other ways a very different animal from the common zebra and it appears that in their stripes the two species have converged rather than diverged , over a long period of time . |
| 25 | If we find that magnets attached to cats will upset their ability to find their way home , then we are beginning , very dimly , to understand the amazing homing abilities that the animals have evolved over a long period of time . |
| 26 | The explanation is that , given a totally unvarying diet over a long period of time , especially if it is from kittenhood right through into adult life , a cat 's ‘ food variety mechanism ’ gets worn down and is finally switched off altogether . |
| 27 | The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time . |
| 28 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
| 29 | One of the tasks of a sponsor of such an event is to maximise on its appeal over a long period of time . |
| 30 | Involvement with the same client over a long period of time , the paper says , could result in a lack of objectivity and ‘ detraction from the regular and robust consideration ’ of issues associated with the audit . |