Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [noun] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The department has expertise over a wide range of philosophical subjects , ranging from aesthetics to philosophy of science , philosophy of language and logic to moral philosophy , philosophy of mind to legal and political philosophy , and modern continental philosophy to the philosophy of religion . |
| 2 | On January 3 , 1979 , road transport drivers stopped work over a 25 per cent claim , paralysing dock movements , starving industry of supplies , putting thousands on short time and causing panic buying of food and threats of rationing . |
| 3 | On the centre pages I found a huge black and white photograph of a Hercules aircraft disgorging paratroopers over a large expanse of grassland somewhere in Africa . |
| 4 | The attempt to hound companies over a debatable interpretation of one day 's delay shows a particularly nasty form of small-mindedness . |
| 5 | The opportunity for the PLO to assert sovereignty over a specific territory arose through the Jordanian decision in July 1988 to sever administrative and legal links with the West Bank [ see p. 36120 ] . |
| 6 | Off this gallery all the principal bedrooms face west over an extensive private garden ( Plate 5 ) . |
| 7 | The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves . |
| 8 | LIVERPOOL MP David Alton is spearheading a campaign urging action over a sickening report on child abuse . |
| 9 | The make-up of these bodies can be particularly important when governments exert pressure over a particular programme , as happened to the BBC in the case of Real Lives ( an examination of the life of an IRA sympathiser in Belfast ) and to the IBA in the case of Death on the Rock ( a This Week programme about the SAS shooting of three IRA members in Gibraltar ) . |
| 10 | Throughout the public sector individuals exercise discretion over a wide range of issues . |
| 11 | In the years following the Second World War the European colonial powers retained control over a large number of military and naval bases among their colonies . |
| 12 | The following week the Environment Secretary flies to Luxembourg to voice reservations over a planned EC tax on fossil fuels . |
| 13 | As M. W. Eysenck ( 1982 ) points out , unless studies collect data over a large range of different arousal levels , there are relatively few patterns of results which are actually inconsistent with an inverted-U relationship . |
| 14 | President Andrés Rodríguez calmed speculation over a possible imminent " presidential coup " when on June 22 he swore allegiance to the new Constitution in a solemn ceremony before the Congress . |
| 15 | Other families need help over a longer period , although the group is careful not to overlap with the work of professional staff from the social services . |
| 16 | The need to indicate both atoms is due to the order of operations which results in a branch having priority over a functional group ( see Table ) . |
| 17 | Generally though a large demand has advantages over a low one . |
| 18 | Tall beech trees shed leaves over a disused tennis court , near well-kept lawns and bright hydrangeas . |
| 19 | The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) . |
| 20 | During the fluent phase , planning takes place over a larger unit than the clause . |
| 21 | Young , Hay , and Ellis ( 1985 ) asked 22 people to keep records over an eight-week period of difficulties they experienced in recognizing people . |
| 22 | He walked through the white corridors , past the notice boards with their offers of small rooms and old cars , past the coffee bar where people sat at tables , past a hole in the white floor where an old chair stood sentry over an opened conduit in which a torch shone and a man crawled , and as he left he looked at his watch : |
| 23 | Labour 's consumer spokesman Nigel Griffiths has written to President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine following complaints over a previous Hoover offer of flights to Europe . |
| 24 | Scribblers added oil for this purpose , while spinners held wool over a steaming kettle and could conceal the removal of half a pound in every six this way . |
| 25 | Between 1963 and 1965 the volcano Irazu in Costa Rica was more or less continuously active , with frequent explosions raining ash over a wide area and ruining the all-important coffee crop , but throughout this time no lavas were erupted and there was no significant change in the pattern of the eruption . |
| 26 | In many countries in the early stages of industrialization agriculture has been a major source of foodstuffs , exports and labour , but the degree to which agriculture in Japan contributed capital over a sustained period is unusual . |
| 27 | He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area . |
| 28 | The first and best known of these , which may conveniently be referred to as ‘ horizontal ’ devolution , involves the setting up of a machinery of government exercising jurisdiction over a particular geographical area and having powers , within that area of a semi-autonomous nature . |
| 29 | Iron fittings could replace wooden components gradually , allowing major alterations to take place over a long period . |
| 30 | The trees shook , even the ground beneath me shook , as I suddenly realised that a salvo of heavy shells was passing over at tree height , and everyone — including the prisoners — scattered in the direction of the dug-outs ; the salvo hit the ground a short distance away with an almighty roar , the explosions throwing debris over a wide area . |