Example sentences of "on [art] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While studying the relationship between visual stimuli and the EEG , Adrian found that if a regular series of bright flashes was presented to the subject 's eyes there was an equally regular series of blips in the EEG recorded from electrodes on the scalp over the visual areas at the back of the skull . |
| 2 | We used to play marbles in the alley-way together , and sail paper boats down the gutter when it rained , and we 'd spent all our hot summers together playing rounders on the field over the railway line and helping with the donkey-rides on the beach . |
| 3 | They are a very old family who have lived in that house for centuries , as you can see from their name on the stone over the front door . |
| 4 | It relied heavily on Baldwin 's leadership and on the success over the years in persuading the new democracy not to be seduced by socialist abstractions , trade union militancy or Liberal demagogy , but to accept Conservative values as the guarantee of liberty and secure social improvement . |
| 5 | One such , the manor house , has the date of erection and the name of the first owner on the tablet over the front door , inscribed ‘ Elinor Ellis 1743 ’ . |
| 6 | It was a rare study ; most precipitation analyses of late have concentrated on a sexier topic , acid rain ( which also appears to be on the rise over the Chesapeake ) . |
| 7 | It was a bitterly cold evening but the warmth of the greetings she received on the streets over the next few days made up for it . |
| 8 | 2 ) If you use a ‘ projector marker ’ type pen , you can cross out the rows worked and make notes re : shapings on the perspex over the picture grid . |
| 9 | The prints on the walls were dark and undistinguished , and the large , gilded mirror on the wall over the marble fireplace was speckled . |
| 10 | On the wall over the desk was a print of Munch 's " Scream " . |
| 11 | Languages represented on the Certificate over the years have ranged from the more predictable European ones to Urdu , Hindi , Bengali , Chinese ( Mandarin and Cantonese ) , Japanese , Danish , Russian as well as English . |
| 12 | And when because the family doctor really know whe anything that was happening but was holding on the phone over the phone , oh he 's got a pain you know . |
| 13 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 14 | This consensual relationship was revealed in the remarkable absence of overt conflict and the high degree of union co-operation in the major changes in employment and working practices that have taken place on the railways over the past decades ( Hyman and Elger 1981 ) . |
| 15 | In a special commemorative issue , Pavel Litvonov , a Soviet dissident now living and working in the USA , reflects on the changes over the past 20 years . |
| 16 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 17 | TO MARK the end of the winter season of Head races , three major events take place on the Thames over the next few days . |
| 18 | Keeping an eye on the colony over the next fortnight I saw that another half-dozen polyps had followed the first . |
| 19 | As well as being used to produce economic forecasts , the model can be used to answer questions on the impact over the whole economy of alternative economic policies . |
| 20 | This necessarily brief account has concentrated on the debate over the retirement condition between 1908 and 1948 , and the curious ‘ complicity ’ of the labour movement in demanding a measure that was to confirm the economic uselessness of old people . |
| 21 | These five workers have been forced to become adept at tackling the complete range of jobs which may arise on the farm over the year . |
| 22 | Surveys conducted on the shelf over the past year suggest that , contrary to surveys in the 1950s and 1960s , hydrocarbons should be there . |
| 23 | If that promise had been promptly enforced — by putting a guard on the bridges over the Drina and Sava rivers , with aircraft to watch the roads that lead to the bridges — the size of the intervening soldiers ' task would have been sharply reduced . |
| 24 | One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel . |
| 25 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 26 | At the same moment , a drumming and scraping of feet on the bridge over the moat signalled the arrival of the estate workers from the cottages outside the manor wall … |
| 27 | More detailed instructions will be found taped on the walls over the appliances concerned . |
| 28 | After the vote last night , in which 26 Tories , including Bill Walker ( Tayside N ) , voted against the Government , Labour was flagging a new amendment which it claims will put the Government on the spot over the social chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 29 | Spring Ram , which was one of the brighest stars on the market over the last few years , says the acquisition fits with its aims of becoming Europe 's leading maker of home improvement products . |
| 30 | Next they deliver this ultimatum : " Unless you get at least X clients in and on the market over the next week , you 're history . " |