Example sentences of "but over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But over a period of time , two things disturb this equilibrium : evaporation and infiltration . |
| 2 | Conventional stereo , reproduced from a pair of loudspeakers in front of the listener , produces a less dramatic effect but over a much wider listening area . |
| 3 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 4 | The third type requires such intervention but over a period of years , usually nearly into adolescence , and often there is never complete resolution . |
| 5 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 6 | This group of species lives near rocks , but over a sandy substrate , and all its members utilise the empty shells of the snail Lanistes nyassanus as shelter to some extent . |
| 7 | But over a much wider range than we usually recognize , the signal works without question , because it is a conventional way of answering what would otherwise be ( and may still really be ) difficult or impossibly difficult questions , about the nature of the work and about the appropriate kind of response . |
| 8 | The Andokides Painter experimented with a ‘ white-figure ’ vase : red-figure technique but over a white slip , choosing purely feminine scenes for both sides . |
| 9 | Elsewhere ( as along the western seaboard of North America ) plates were converging and being subducted , but over a great part of the earth 's surface , and my part of it in particular , the plates were gently moving apart as the Atlantic formed from its median ridge . |
| 10 | As with other aspects of the landscape , it was the slow , largely undocumented social and economic changes that spelt the death of such settlements , not at a single stroke but over a long period . |
| 11 | I want a powder , a potion , one which will not kill immediately but over a period of months , undetected by her or any physician . ’ |
| 12 | Development of all major new weapons programmes would nevertheless continue but over a longer time span . |
| 13 | Erm looking interestingly enough , at the Hambleton figures of I understand these are new purchases , which is a bit surprising perhaps , but over a two year period there erm this is table three in Hambleton 's submission , there 's a reference to the number of erm the origin of house purchases from Cleveland in Hambleton , and it would be seen from there that Cleveland erm produced a hundred and fourteen dwellings , that 's purchases of Cleveland residents in the Hambleton area erm in nineteen ninety one to ninety three . |
| 14 | But over a substantial fraction of the wake width , turbulent and non-turbulent motion alternate . |
| 15 | But over a period of time , erm , they are not directly equivalent , but very nearly so . |
| 16 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 17 | Our own surveys confirm a strong switch towards optimism between our Mid-Term Wave in 1986 and our Pre-Campaign Wave in March 1987 , but over the relatively short period from our Pre-Campaign Wave to the end of the campaign overall trends in economic perceptions were small . |
| 18 | The difference between Kinnock 's visibility to those with high and low levels of political interest dropped from 45 per cent before the campaign to 20 per cent at the end of the campaign ; the difference between his visibility to highbrow and lowbrow paper readers dropped from 28 per cent to a mere 5 per cent ; but over the same period the difference between his visibility amongst viewers and nonviewers of television news actually rose slightly . |
| 19 | But over the past century we have made it into a rubbish dump . |
| 20 | But over the past month she has graced the catwalks in Milan , London , Paris and New York , wearing the work of dozens of different designers , and fuelling rumours of a rift between her and Klein . |
| 21 | But over the past two years Ravenscraig 's position has weakened . |
| 22 | But over the years enthusiasm gave way to mere tolerance . |
| 23 | But over the eight drafts , what emerged was a particular vision of the whole penal system as almost a plot by the higher powers to perpetuate the whole system of crime , keep it rolling , keep criminals on the streets … ‘ |
| 24 | I sympathize because in my little way I grieve too , but over the people in my life I have allowed to die without ever having shown them any particular affection . |
| 25 | No more laughter , but over the clash of steel a sharp cry . |
| 26 | But over the past five or six years the visits had increased and lengthened until , in the preceding few months , they had settled permanently upon his presence . |
| 27 | The route taken into the city was not the shortest way from Bethany , but over the shoulder of the Mount of Olives . |
| 28 | Most of the courses lasted for 6 hours ( one day ) or 12 hours ( two days ) but over the past 5 or 6 years there had been an increase in the number of shorter courses . |
| 29 | Traditionally the dominant class had its basis in landownership , but over the years these elites have often shifted their capital to the urban sector because of the possibility of better returns on it , and , on occasion , because of agrarian reform . |
| 30 | But over the years , because of the dictates of bank balance and burgeoning family , we have spent much of our time exploring Scotland ; and our love of game fishing has provided a marvellous excuse for tramping moor and mountain in seach of peace , seclusion , and a few wild brown trout . |