Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the water had to be raised to the top of the acropolis over a distance of a kilometre , this saved the construction of an aqueduct 100 feet high over this long distance . |
| 2 | Certain of his actions — including misleading the board over a transaction with Peter de Savary concerning a property development at Canvey and then concluding it without board approval — amounted to breaches of his fiduciary duty to Blue Arrow , the report says . |
| 3 | She has not seen him since half past six , when they met in the kitchen over a salami sandwich . |
| 4 | They were sitting in the kitchen over a cup of tea . |
| 5 | Their symbolic action was swiftly curtailed when the occupants were given ten minutes to leave and , despite their bravest efforts , watched the waiting bulldozers push the building over a cliff into the sea . |
| 6 | Nylon bristles are not to be recommended because they are likely to create static electricity in the coat and may actually damage the hair over a period of time . |
| 7 | She was followed soon afterwards by Dr Greenaway , the BDA 's President who had rendered magnificent service to the Association over a period of thirty years . |
| 8 | Just as important is the talk over a cup of tea at the end when members share common problems . |
| 9 | This includes massaging the prostate gland and massaging the urethra over a metal sound . |
| 10 | DAVID PLATT received a ticking-off from Graham Taylor last night for keeping the England boss in the dark over a knee injury which threatens to prevent him playing against Turkey next week . |
| 11 | The rural development centre CEPROR ( Centro de Romocion Rural ) ran special courses for young women , Sister Asuncion , who was in charge of the programme over a period of two years ( 1975–7 ) , helped train approximately 2.000 young women in community work . |
| 12 | Erm we also wanted to implement a plan er and this is an ongoing er situation of admitting er young blood to the partnership over a period of of erm five years or so , again that 's a rolling programme |
| 13 | The driver turns the engine over a couple of times ; says , ‘ What it needs is a little push . ' ’ |
| 14 | Er but in order to introduce reasonable facilities for shop stewards , we had to make approaches to the management over a period of time . |
| 15 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 16 | After the grubs have eaten extensive ‘ galleries ’ in the wood over a period of years , with the resultant dust being emitted in bun-shaped pellets , the larva enters a pupal stage lasting three to six weeks and emerges as a fully grown beetle . |
| 17 | A CRUNCH meeting tonight will determine the next moves in the battle over a prestige North-East sporting venue . |
| 18 | Alkaline basalts record the passage of the plateau over a hotspot during the Eocene . |
| 19 | At that time there was a widespread practice of holding the child over a newspaper for passing a motion . |
| 20 | Birth parents may relinquish their child for adoption at the time of birth or at a subsequent date , possibly having cared for the child over a period of months or years . |
| 21 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
| 22 | The advantage to the offeror over a share offer with a cash alternative is that it knows in advance that it will only have to make available fixed pools of each type of consideration . |
| 23 | ‘ This is a continuation of the policy adopted by the business over a number of years . |
| 24 | This thesis describes work undertaken by the author over a period of four years in the Department of Computing at Nottingham Trent University . |
| 25 | We operated from fixed points with the vessels motoring or drifting as near to the centre of the basin as possible between Foyers and Urquhart Bay , normally scanning the beam over a sector of 120 o in the direction of travel at a tilt of 30 o to 40 o , to give an effective search to a depth of 160 m . |
| 26 | A recent report by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) said the iodine-131 may have killed 13 people through cancer of the thyroid over a period of decades . |
| 27 | For every site , however , the archaeologists ' main concerns are to recover the sequence of plans that result from the changing occupation and use of the site over a period of time ; the stratigraphic sequence of layers ; the relationship of any features such as walls , pits and ditches to one another ; evidence for the dating of these features and of the site as a whole ; evidence for the climate and local environment when the site was occupied ; and the relationship of the site to other sites , both in the locality and further afield . |
| 28 | The daughter of Pennine Walk cruised into the lead over a furlong out and soon sprinted clear to beat Goodnight Kiss by two lengths with Lester Piggott 's mount Danse Royale a short head away in third . |
| 29 | Cruising into the lead over a furlong out , Nicer soon sprinted clear to beat Goodnight Kiss by two lengths , with Lester Piggott 's mount Danse Royale a short head away in third . |
| 30 | and all this , just for the sake over a bit of retaliation ? |