Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be recommended that independent psychiatric or psychological assessment is made or that the sufferer is admitted for prolonged assessment over a period of time ( ten days or so ) in daily contact with the group of patients already in treatment . |
| 2 | It is usually the case that the primaries are geographically distinct and , since not all are to appear in the sample , there is a clear administrative advantage over a sampling scheme involving the whole population of secondaries . |
| 3 | no , not directly , each regional office would have a regional M D , managing director , who would actually be on the board , the divisional board with me , each regional M D would then have his own regional board on which there would be er finance er finance director , sales and marketing director , construction director , land director , not all of them , all seven had that board immediately , some developed that board , grew that board over a couple of years |
| 4 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 5 | We have confirmed this finding over a mean of 69 months follow up , with left ventricular ejection fraction ranging from 42 to 83% . |
| 6 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 7 | Court was wearing a light robe over a pair of pale blue pyjamas . |
| 8 | The trusteeship crisis enabled the KDP to take the initiative in gaining popular support over a subject on which public opinion in Korea for once sided with the right . |
| 9 | Ten a.m. , 24th July ; just finished breakfast with the mortar team and relaxing for a few minutes over a mug of hot tea discussing the number of casualties after the heavy shelling last night . |
| 10 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |
| 11 | The presenter of a television series has some advantage over a writer , since filming is more flexible than book production . |
| 12 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 13 | These have taken the form of protest meetings , marches and other types of direct action over a variety of issues . |
| 14 | ‘ The coastguard was constantly getting calls from ships concerned about this car over a cliff edge and someone dangling from it , ’ recalled Stuart Fell . |
| 15 | Both the Listening Test and the Grammar Test have been the subject of rigorous research over a number of years , with up to forty different nationalities of students . |
| 16 | As an example of the use to which these options were put in deciding the future lines of investigation in the project , it quickly became apparent by computing improved pictures over a range of plant ages and displaying the changes , that the measure of the changes was never likely to be large , and that the changes were not all in one direction . |
| 17 | An agreement would normally embrace a number of interest rate renewal periods of three , six , nine or 12 months over a total of two years . |
| 18 | In this thesis he describes a meticulous dietary study over a period of several years at the Juliana Children 's Hospital in a patient with coeliac disease , which started in 1936 ! |
| 19 | And I believe er , at this meeting it was revealed that Scottish Homes had received a tender from the West Lothian District Council for this work over a period of ten years for a figure which comes to four hundred thousand pound which , apparently , was the cheapest tender ! |
| 20 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 21 | Or he can act if there is public outcry over a sentence . |
| 22 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 23 | " On the surface I might have seemed calm , " he said after recording opening rounds of 66 and 68 to open a four-shot lead over a group comprising Russell Claydon , Roger Chapman , Peter Senior and Scott Hoch . |
| 24 | In Act II , SC.6 , of the same opera Cavalli introduced the classic example of a type not new even in his own work and employed in so many later operas : the extended lamento over a ground bass , usually chromatic . |
| 25 | The bank finally agreed to loan sixteen thousand pounds for the business plus overdraught facilities and a further nine thousand pounds secured on our client 's home repayable over five years , any further mortgage over a future was to be arranged elsewhere and my Lord er will hear that in fact the , having the sale of their home having been completed on the fifth of December the plaintiffs were then homeless for some three months living with their daughter until such times as they were able to arrange a mortgage on their present property with the Halifax . |
| 26 | Now the Col des Cavales is an important pass to the Pave hut beside its deep blue , ice-infested lake , but it 's loose and nasty in the late afternoon : rusty cables hang from broken bolts over a parody of a path , so without axes we kicked down steep slush and bucket-stepped , slippery ice . |
| 27 | But the post office says the original ballot taken on industrial action maynot cover this strike over a suspension as it 's an entirely different issue . |
| 28 | Moreover , even those studies where there does seem to be a clear relationship over a number of data points at different arousal levels ( e.g. Courts , 1942 ; Stennett , 1957 ; Bolanger & Feldman , described in Malmo 1959 ) can often be criticized for the possibility that the task used to induce arousal actually requires greater levels of attention at higher levels of arousal itself . |
| 29 | In Tameside the central department and the local authority were in direct conflict over a matter of administrative feasibility . |
| 30 | I met Jamie in the lounge bar of the Cauldhame Arms for lunch and we sat playing an electronic game over a TV table . |