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 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 .
4 Court was wearing a light robe over a pair of pale blue pyjamas .
5 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 .
6 Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks .
7 He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week .
8 These have taken the form of protest meetings , marches and other types of direct action over a variety of issues .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 !
12 Or he can act if there is public outcry over a sentence .
13 People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time .
14 " 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 In Tameside the central department and the local authority were in direct conflict over a matter of administrative feasibility .
19 I met Jamie in the lounge bar of the Cauldhame Arms for lunch and we sat playing an electronic game over a TV table .
20 Only a rutted bridle track , where orchids still grow , led to it by way of a dilapidated wooden bridge over a stream ; the oak avenue which once lined the way gradually fell .
21 Roebuck , moved a famous and extremely detailed vote of censure on Palmerston 's foreign policy over a period of two decades , 2,000 – 3,000 volumes of manuscript correspondence were consulted by officials in the government 's attempt to produce a convincing rebuttal .
22 One result of this constant paradox is that while the police make statements welcoming research and applaud intellectual debate , they strive to impose rigid control over a system of preferred rules and regulations to negate open enquiry , so that systems are quietly but firmly deployed to deny the critical approach — as we shall see .
23 I mean for example hospitals and nursing homes , we have a purely tenuous control over , whereas we have a very rigid control over a signal box on a railway .
24 Do we really want to go down in history as the generation which sold for a mess of pottage the finest British companies , which have successfully built brand names and franchises of high repute over a century or more … ?
25 Grassland option : Grass cover of different lengths over a field .
26 As always , it was difficult to judge the uphill putt over a kind of step .
27 social choice over a set of alternatives must depend on the orderings of the individuals only over these alternatives and not on ‘ irrelevant alternatives ’ ;
28 Executed in brush and brown ink over a charcoal underdrawing , the drawing may well date from the artist 's second trip to Italy in 1773–74 .
29 A further enhancement is to spread the top growth over a wire umbrella to get the hanging stems well away from the central support .
30 They would shake their empty hands over a barrel lined with tinfoil , from which he could at a later date draw out benison .
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