Example sentences of "[noun] over [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have found that better recognition was obtained with a larger language model match factor , which prefers longer words over shorter ones , and deletions over insertions. ’ ( p. 119 ) |
| 2 | He had to lead his horse over Honister Pass but its barrenness pleased him greatly . |
| 3 | Mini-bus services have been experimented with in a number of areas , although the savings over larger buses are not always felt to be great and , frequently , mini-buses will be too small to cope with maximum demand over part of the route ( Dobbs 1979 ) . |
| 4 | The owner of a large herd could use it as leverage over poorer neighbours who depended on his goodwill to hire out cattle during the agricultural seasons . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , the population turnaround and planning controls are imposing average densities over larger areas of the country , and Craig ( 1979 ) reveals that it is the areas of suburban density that have experienced the greatest overall population growth in both population and extent . |
| 6 | This subtle scheme has advantages over simpler divisions . |
| 7 | They have advantages over larger fixed pads in that they are transportable and less prone to variation caused by moisture , and they give a more uniform distribution of the radioelements . |
| 8 | This form of " guerrilla ethnography " has obvious advantages over larger , better-equipped crews with more limited time in the field , but it does not include the consolations of insurance , institutional funding or any guarantees of selling the films afterwards . |
| 9 | Increasing returns in an industry imply that from the viewpoint of industrial efficiency larger units of production have cost advantages over smaller units . |
| 10 | There he suggests that the extant megalithic monuments are preferentially located in areas underlain by older rock ( without acknowledging that such monuments over younger rock in the south and east Britain might have been destroyed by later development ) , and close to geological faults which he believes cause a luminous aerial phenomenon , sometimes called a UFO ! |
| 11 | All those judges agreed on the abstract propositions that statutes make law and that precedent decisions must be allowed some influence over later decisions . |
| 12 | Indeed , a soft conventionalist would be able to deny that there were gaps even if lawyers disagreed about these abstract conventions , even if many lawyers denied that statutes make law or that precedents exert some influence over later decisions . |
| 13 | Minister ducks Commons battle over higher education loans . |
| 14 | His second to Party Politics in the Grand National marked him down as a stayer , but he is by no means a slouch over shorter trips . |
| 15 | Considerations in favour of a more flexible approach towards new building in the South East include the need to continue the momentum of the national economic recovery and the search for alternative uses of surplus farmland , but if no firm guidance on this matter is forthcoming in the near future , decentralization is likely to occur more slowly but take place over longer distances . |
| 16 | Because as recognized a century ago by Ravenstein ( 1885 , 1889 ) most movement takes place over shorter distances , migration 's role in population change becomes more important as the spatial scale of analysis descends . |
| 17 | A few coats may be needed to build up the surface over deeper blemishes . |
| 18 | With rat embryos , rotation of culture vessels , which ensures continuous exposure of all the medium to the gas phase , and , therefore , a constant oxygen tension , produces normal development over longer periods than does static culture ( 18 ) . |
| 19 | The South Coast Air Quality Management District is a body with considerable powers over greater LA . |
| 20 | It extended its powers over smaller towns and communes , such as Nonantola , and allied itself with others . |
| 21 | With control over Korea and Taiwan secure , Japan 's eyes turned to the territories of Northeast China and Manchuria , and Japan 's search for the acquisition of control over greater portions of Asian territory governed the development of Asian Japanese relations during the four decades up to 1945 . |
| 22 | Their proposals for further education will transfer elected local authority control over further education to control by seven or eight appointed regional boards . |
| 23 | There were places where it was effectively not the Principal but the local authority that was running the college — a tradition of detailed local authority control over further education Institutions that it was difficult to break even in developed institutions . |
| 24 | In principle , therefore , the legal interest should pass from transferor or transferee when the company is given notice of it , and that date , rather than the later date of actual registration , should be the relevant one in determining its priority over earlier unnotified transfers . |
| 25 | For example , in capital-intensive industries like oil refining and industrial chemicals , the largest plants can provide substantial unit-cost saving over smaller plants . |
| 26 | Perhaps we should draw a veil over further speculation and simply describe train-spotting as one of those lovable British eccentricities , like garden gnomes , toy soldiers , strong tea , and talking about the weather . |
| 27 | But while they look broadly similar across the industry , being between 1 and 2 per cent , even this small difference can start to have a significant effect on returns over longer periods . |
| 28 | There are many improvements over earlier DOS versions . |
| 29 | Version 3.3 of MegaCAD has many improvements over earlier versions , in particular a new graphical user interface and a ‘ user menu ’ which can call up MagaCAD functions and third-party software . |
| 30 | Interactions over longer distances encouraged the development of common conventions , of measures of security , of a lingua franca in which business could be conducted . |