Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advantages : Maybe Babies are far more common under the age of three months than over , so it 's often a short-lived phase , connected with development rather than personality . |
| 2 | Much bigger in the States than over here . |
| 3 | Ann if over her heroin addiction and working on her compulsion to go shoplifting . |
| 4 | Bomber Command 's losses reached 5% per raid before the introduction of a radar jamming device known as ‘ window ’ , the code name for strips of aluminium foil which the crews jettisoned from their aircraft when over Germany to confuse the night fighters . |
| 5 | On the other hand , damages are not a discretionary remedy and so the courts do not have as much control over the award of this remedy as over the judicial review remedies . |
| 6 | This is especially true of the agriculture committee where over three-quarters of the members are from an agricultural background and thus represent agricultural interests . |
| 7 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 8 | The authority of the state may be greater over some individuals than over others , depending on their personal circumstances . |
| 9 | Our explanation for this was that unions might feel they had less control over the conditions of indirectly employed temporary workers than over the conditions of those who are directly employed . |
| 10 | But our experience has shown the public did n't take advantage of the facility except over the Christmas and New Year period . ’ |
| 11 | The government may have only some of the of the authority it claims , it may have more authority over one person than over another . |
| 12 | He knows that a profitable deal can just as easily be struck over a caesar salad and glass of mineral water as over a T-bone steak and bottle of vintage claret . |
| 13 | On the rare occasion when over 15–20 pages seems justified add an index page immediately after the management summary and before the introductory section . |
| 14 | The position of women is even worse : 8 per cent were paid below the legal minimum while over one-half were paid barely above it ( Winyard 1978 ) . |
| 15 | He has no plans to get in touch with Terry Waite while over here . |
| 16 | Hour after hour the legions marched past , walking as much over each others ' bodies as over the ground , while I waited for the queen . |
| 17 | The marked tightening-up of the hitherto very lax standing orders of the House of Commons from 1881 onwards ( a response to organised obstruction by Irish members ) tended to limit parliamentary control over foreign policy as over other aspects of government . |
| 18 | The argument is likely to be less over the substance of the legislation than over whether the system can be implemented . |
| 19 | Erm I if I was talking to an audience in the United States , you 'd probably have a somewhat different approach cos over there they seem to throw their desktop devices away every two or three years and replace them with brand new technology . |
| 20 | Radio waves are used rather than em waves of other wavelengths because over suitable wavelength ranges they readily penetrate planetary atmospheres and because natural emissions at such wavelengths tend to be weak thus enabling the echoes to be readily picked out from the natural background . |
| 21 | The horns of male deer , for instance , have increased in size because over many generations those stags with large antlers have mated most successfully . |
| 22 | Some of these groups envisaged the return of General de Gaulle in the wake of the insurrection , though many did not ( the pieds noirs had generally been Pétainist during the war and many officers either viewed de Gaulle as over the hill or still resented his indiscipline in 1940 ) . |
| 23 | Methodists ' main concern was not so much the debate over collectivism v. individualism as over reunion of the various Methodist divisions . |
| 24 | It is not surprising , then , that there are many unsatisfactory ways of calculating valence electron excitation energies , but none that give convincing results except over a very narrow group of compounds . |
| 25 | Along the edge of the Cromarty Firth there were more seagulls in the fields than over the whole of Lewis . |
| 26 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 27 | Women smokers are at just as much risk as men and at even greater risk if over the age of thirty-five and on the pill . |
| 28 | There has been some of the same controversy over the role of the mental handicap hospitals as over the psychiatric hospitals , but on the whole the issue is clearer : they ought to be replaced by smaller units , ranging from hostels and homes to specialist hospital units able to provide intensive nursing for the severely handicapped minority . |
| 29 | Drought — Spain is the only major European country where over large areas rainfall is less than fifteen inches a year — precluded such changes on the secano . |
| 30 | The nursery is open Monday to Friday from 8.45 am to 5.00 pm throughout the year except over the Christmas and New Year period and on public holidays . |