Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequent investigations , summarised by Crothers ( 1983b ) , have found that this expression usefully describes the variation seen over most parts of the species ' range in Europe and North America . |
| 2 | Staverman and co-workers ( 1956 ) paid particular attention to approximations to the solution of the integral equations used in the exact theory , since , experimentally , observations can only be made over limited periods of time ( in creep for example ) or limited frequency ranges ( in dynamic methods ) whereas the exact theory of linear viscoelasticity requires the use of infinite integrals . |
| 3 | It partly corresponds to the asthenosphere , the plastic-like properties of which permits slow ‘ flow ’ of material in response to forces applied over long periods of time ( Fig. 2.7 ) . |
| 4 | The tawny owl does not usually produce large concentrations of pellets because of its habit of using different trees each day for roosting , and so all of these samples are either from scattered locations or were collected over considerable periods of time . |
| 5 | ‘ One electric cable was fixed to the small finger of my right hand and the other cable was moved over various parts of my body . |
| 6 | Where we are going ( 1700 England ) they have only just got over periodic waves of bubonic plague . |
| 7 | That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community , against his will , is to prevent harm to others . |
| 8 | That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community , against his will , is to prevent harm to others . ’ |
| 9 | He scooped a handful of marble out of a bannister as if it were plasticine , and briefly enjoyed the traces of the many fingers that had brushed over this patch of cold stone down the years . |
| 10 | A third rail was laid over many miles of track to allow trains of either gauge to run . |
| 11 | It is the native accent of more than 203,000,000 people and is spoken over wide areas of the United States and in parts of Canada . |
| 12 | Dense summer acid hazes are now experienced over extensive areas of rural southern Britain , being closely related to the advection of polluted continental air masses ( Barnes and Lee , 1978 ; Lee , 1983a , 1983b , 1988 ) . |
| 13 | Ideals have always been developed over long periods of time as the result of historical evolutions and through exceptional personalities . |
| 14 | The implications of the mixture of distributions hypothesis for the distribution of price changes calculated over equal periods of calendar time were considered in Chapter 7 . |
| 15 | This can be contrasted with the antiquity of rocks exposed over large areas of the continents which in some cases are more than 3000 Ma old . |
| 16 | These firms were at the time of out visit listed over each block of filing cabinets . |
| 17 | But this also means that as the morphology of species matured over great periods of historic time , other forms became more adapted to life on land , while yet others returned to the water to escape the increasing competition . |
| 18 | The more extreme forms of influence , such as coercion or threat , are unlikely to be sustained over any length of time . |
| 19 | A detailed helicopter EM survey has been flown over extensive areas of the Middle Dalradian ( MEG 253 ) . |
| 20 | But these can not yet be attributed to the activities of an individual mosaicist — although they might well indicate the predilictions of an influential client or close- knit group of clients — and are still most significant when viewed over considerable periods of time . |
| 21 | Record low levels of ozone have been observed over large areas of the Northern hemisphere , according to the World Meteorological Organization . |
| 22 | For a public good-the consumption of which is defined over geographic subsets of the total population and for which the costs of providing each level of output of the good in each jurisdiction are the same for the central government or the respective local government — it will always be more efficient or at least as efficient for local government to provide the Pareto-efficient levels of output for their respective jurisdictions than for central government to provide any specified and uniform level of output across all jurisdictions . |
| 23 | Precisely when this occurred can seldom be determined on any estates , because there are few series of complete manorial records , but it is safe to say that by the early fifteenth century the change had taken place widely on both lay and ecclesiastical lands , the latter being better documented over different parts of the country . |
| 24 | With very gradual familiarisation training spread over many months of flying , some of these students have been completely cured . |
| 25 | Colleagues , this document is surely the way forward for a progressive union which represents so many , many members spread over all aspects of industry . |
| 26 | Four people were playing bridge on a blanket spread over one end of the table . |
| 27 | Conservation areas can be spread over large chunks of historic towns or just one street . |
| 28 | The long domed nose contains a smell-receptive membrane spread over rolled-up scrolls of bone . |
| 29 | The ‘ acid rain ’ had passed over industrial areas of the UK , France or West Germany . |
| 30 | Hot gases from pyrites burners , mixed with steam , were passed over small blocks of moulded salt , a process which worked successfully for many years ; the works was absorbed by the United Alkali Co. in 1890 and the last Hargreaves–Robinson saltcake plant closed in 1918 . |