Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The profile would usually be the number of qualified and unqualified staff required for each span of duty over a 24-hour period . |
| 2 | As he said , it makes some criticism of the European dimension , but in paragraph 8 headed ’ Europe ’ it also says : ’ While local government structure in the UK can not be determined by the nature of European structural funds and the case for regional authorities with power over service delivery has not been made out , the European dimension must nonetheless be considered in the longer term . ’ |
| 3 | In the USA , for example , a large number of days may be lost in an industry while new productivity deals are being negotiated ; the immediate loss of production is just part of the price paid for high levels of output over the longer run . |
| 4 | And there 'll be playing for civic pride in Hereford over the coming week … more than a thousand sports men and women from Cheltenham , Worcester and Hereford are competing in 21 different sports in the annual ’ Sport for All ’ festival . |
| 5 | Harmonic schemes on a larger scale , spanning large movements or in successions of movements , also require planning , for some change of key over a large area is needed to create contrast and relief . |
| 6 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 7 | The Blinky Bill case ( International News , 6th November 1992 ) has been settled after six months of wrangling over the interpretation of Australia 's trademark and copyright legislation . |
| 8 | Gloucester thereupon went off to capture Berwick-upon-Tweed and , after thirteen changes of ownership over the centuries , made it once and for all English . |
| 9 | After several days of confusion over Labour 's plans over future privatisation , Mr Smith confirmed that an incoming Labour government will not have the benefit of an extra £9.5 billion which the Conservatives had planned to raise through the disposal of the Government 's remaining holdings in former public utilities . |
| 10 | After several months of uncertainty over the future political direction of the Civic Forum movement , its contending factions agreed in February to form separate organizations ; the Democratic Right Club 's supporters were to become the Civic Democratic Party , while the Liberal Club would formed itself into the Civic Movement . |
| 11 | SIR , — Of a total of 3715,762 infants delivered in Japan after 23 weeks of gestation over the three years 1989 to 1991 , 22,531 were stillborn . |
| 12 | The Central Bank 's first director , Wonter Bernard ( a Dutch official whose appointment was financed by the IMF resigned after reported disagreements with Herrigel over the bank 's independence from government control . |
| 13 | The first signs of political discontent in England over the conduct of the war surfaced in the parliament of February 1371 , when the commons refused to grant a subsidy until the king 's clerical ministers of state had been replaced by laymen who , unlike their clerical counterparts , would be liable to answer for their misdeeds in the royal courts . |
| 14 | Maintenance of information in verbal memory is based on sub-vocal rehearsal of material held in a fading phonological store and it has been suggested that maintenance of spatial information in memory over short periods is also carried out by an active control process based on a response system . |
| 15 | They favoured ZOPFAN as the kind of indigenous initiative they had hoped to stimulate under the umbrella notion of collective security , but in the absence of clear agreement in ASEAN over neutralisation they were loath to become committed to a proposal which could be turned against themselves . |
| 16 | By contrast , radical elite theory attacks pluralism ( and democratic elitism as well ) for disguising the degree to which existing arrangements do not implement feasible ideals of direct control by citizens over decisions affecting their lives . |
| 17 | ( 1989 ) examined the impact of smoking status on mortality over a 17-year period for 60- to 94-year-olds included in the Alameda County study in the United States . |
| 18 | As Table 4 indicates , substantial changes took place in the structure of residential services in Nottinghamshire over the period of the study . |
| 19 | First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect . |
| 20 | This aircraft suffered seven hits in Vietnam and the owner had researched the aircraft 's complete military history which included a video tape of this aircraft in action over Vietnam . |
| 21 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 22 | Oil is the most versatile , flexible and valuable of the primary fuels and part of the process of improved use of energy over the past decade has been for users to switch to other fuels to generate heat , thus saving oil for the transportation and speciality uses for which there are no cost effective substitutes . |
| 23 | There have been numerous examples of varying degrees of seriousness over the years . |
| 24 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 25 | And therefore , to attempt to uncover the said hierarchy as a grotesque sham , guilty of appalling crimes against humanity over the centuries is a valid political and social comment . |
| 26 | The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment . |
| 27 | Graham ( 1982 ) supports such efforts and explores , through PIMS , the relationship between the excess of actual returns on equity over required yields and the excess of market value over book value . |
| 28 | So while you can talk about the expansion of federal powers and the dominance of the national government in certain areas , it is but nothing compared to the dominance of central government in Britain over , over local government . |
| 29 | The balance between the two varied according to economic circumstances , and it is very difficult for us to reconstruct the nature of these services in detail over a wide area before the thirteenth century . |
| 30 | The outcome was none the less a climbdown for the government , which was obliged to drop its original plan to outlaw strikes in all sectors of industry for 15 months , amid deep divisions among parliamentarians over the extent of the powers to be granted . |