Example sentences of "[art] [noun] over a period " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Manor was an important landmark during the annual and ancient custom called the ‘ perambulation of Purton ’ , during Rogation Tide in May , when a large procession , headed by the clergyman , would beat the bounds over a period of two days . |
| 4 | Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Er but in order to introduce reasonable facilities for shop stewards , we had to make approaches to the management over a period of time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This thesis describes work undertaken by the author over a period of four years in the Department of Computing at Nottingham Trent University . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Tower Hamlets , acting under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1967 , required Chetnik to pay rates on the buildings over a period of some years during which they were unoccupied because tenants could not be found . |
| 15 | It was intended to see if the total programme of instruction-orientation , introduction and advanced courses in information retrieval affected the pattern of use of the library over a period of five years . |
| 16 | First name Surname Form Author 's name Book title Type in data in the order given pressing RETURN after each item PRESS " ESCAPE " TO RETURN TO MENU Option 4 gives a status report and is useful in collecting statistics on the use of the library over a period of two years . |
| 17 | The statistics on use of the library over a period can prove useful in presenting reports to the school hierarchy and arguing for increases in resources . |
| 18 | A serious problem has emerged in the area over a period of months , and a series of reports have been issued , concluding with a report by the National Rivers Authority on effluent that is poured into the lagoons at Grassmoor 40,000 tonnes of it a year . |
| 19 | The general procedure , however , is to work with the dog over a period of time , ensuring a non-conflict situation so as to overcome its fears . |
| 20 | The use of the model for policy analysis generally presupposes that a forecast of the economy over a period of several years is available . |
| 21 | It may take drastic discontinuities , of the kind described above , to highlight the fact that the environment over a period must be taken into account before one can attempt to predict the course of personality development , yet children reared under normal home circumstances are generally regarded as remaining under such constant environmental conditions that this consideration does not hold . |
| 22 | I hasten to add that when I was responsible , as Secretary of State for the Environment , for such developments in England , I found that , with certain conditions one could improve the environment over a period of years . |
| 23 | These courses are run over several months , giving participants time to try out the suggestions over a period of time . |
| 24 | She had had to wean herself off the dope over a period of years , and still felt the occasional urge for a H-9 hit . |
| 25 | This method of calculating an average is favoured by the hotel and catering industry as it can show the trend over a period of time and eliminates the effects of seasonal fluctuations . |
| 26 | Struck at such moments as the end of a verse , these enhanced the impact of rituals performed to promote harmony and enhance the dignity of the state over a period of at least three millennia from the Shang to the Qing dynasties . |
| 27 | The sample , placed in a dialyser bag , is suspended in distilled or deionized water , circulation of which encourages osmotic exchange of the salts over a period of several days . |
| 28 | Taxes and public spending to be set to reach a ‘ savings target ’ for the nation over a period of years . |
| 29 | To avoid large outflows of funds on the redemption of a large government debt issue , the maturing stock is bought by the Issue Department ( see below ) of the Bank over a period of time to avoid shocks to the financial system . |
| 30 | The results of testing the model over a period from the late 1890s to 1970 are satisfactory for all the variables employed , and the government 's impact upon union growth is shown to be highly significant . |