Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Welsh success : Wales continues to lead the UK out of recession , enjoying the largest regional increase in orders over the last four months , says the Bank of Wales . |
| 2 | In this case , to model human institutions , a strong focusing preference of wine over table ( or , more generally , of theme over optional sentence participants ) seems to be required . |
| 3 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 4 | Though they have all faced more complex choices by virtue of having mixed policies towards foreign investors and internal interest groups , there has been some perceptible consistency in approach over time , even though that is at times obscured by administrative and political compromise . |
| 5 | The powerful political thrust to get rid of this administrative mode of control over labour and material resources is often , but not exclusively , motivated by the need to relieve the economy of the burden of taxation , and to overcome the fiscal crisis of the state . |
| 6 | There are also some local variations in the measurements and because of this reliable detection of growth over a period of half a day seems unlikely . |
| 7 | Baldwin shunted him to the editorship of the official British Gazette , ‘ to stop him doing worse things ’ , but at the same time kept control over what was published by the remarkable feat of giving Davidson , a junior minister at the Admiralty , some real power of censorship over what the Chancellor of the Exchequer wrote . |
| 8 | These measures would involve society in exercising directive intelligence through some appropriate organ of action over many of the intricacies of private business , yet it would leave private initiative and enterprise unhindered ’ ( quoted Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 8 ) . |
| 9 | In spite of the millions of words they contain , and some noticeable shifts of emphasis over the years , the volumes of the Church Dogmatics are marked by an immense overall coherence and harmony . |
| 10 | Spread a few tiny knobs of butter over the surface , heat in a moderate oven , gas no. 4 , 350°F. , for about 20 minutes , until the sauce is just faintly golden and bubbling . |
| 11 | In the first place , it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed . |
| 12 | Another major advantage of bananas over other sweet foods is that they come in their own hermetically sealed biodegradable packaging — the ideal food for when you are on the move . |
| 13 | It is known as ‘ The Key of England ’ , having guarded this vulnerable coast against invasion over many centuries . |
| 14 | This gradual build-up of reps over the first 3 sessions will reduce the amount of stiffness and soreness experienced in the muscles at the start of the programme . |
| 15 | It is appropriate here to step back from the detail of party politics and to attempt to draw out in general terms the conditions producing this weakening hold of governments over popular support . |
| 16 | For example there were 367 recorded deaths of buzzards over a ten year period , although according to the RSPB the real figure is likely to be ten times that number . |
| 17 | But , in addition , there arose the possibility of some common agreement with industry over the fact that the economy was being run to the advantage of the City as opposed to industry . |
| 18 | In tests at the Australian National University in Canberra , soya beans , rice and peas were given repeated low-level bursts of uv-B over a six- to eight-week period . |
| 19 | While there have been some minor reductions of segregation over the last century , the basic fact of extensive segregation by gender in employment remains a striking feature of the labour market . |
| 20 | There seem to be quite a few local authorities with difficulties over barrier designs , and certainly we , as cyclists , come across more ‘ bad ’ barriers ( require dismounting ) than good . |
| 21 | It is such measurable levels of activity over a given time period however which provide a means of support and comparison . |
| 22 | He proposed that the assumed uniform distribution of forces over any section within the specimen was a limiting state to which the forces in the real specimen approached , the further away from the extremities was the section under consideration . |
| 23 | The threat of a serious military confrontation with Ecuador over long-disputed territory in the Condor Range Amazonian border region , was reported to have faded by Oct. 29 . |
| 24 | NINE people froze to death in the central Russian region of Chuvashia over the weekend as strong winds accompanied a sharp fall in temperature , Itar-Tass news agency said yesterday . |
| 25 | Did you hear that little round of applause over the top of me ? |
| 26 | Three advance hand in hand over irregular ground , the last half-hidden by the rim , and around the other sides ( fig. 115 ) others , some with transparent drapery , have taken off into the air and float free — an imaginative adaptation of the black background to the new idea of spatial setting . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’ |
| 28 | Midland 's Seven Days ' Notice Deposit Account offers a competitive rate of interest , regular statements and access to cleared funds , while the Fixed Term Deposit Account is aimed at customers requiring an investment for a specific period , with a higher and guaranteed fixed rate of interest over the stated term . |
| 29 | Several were in groups of four , three standing slabs of stone over which a fourth lay as a roof , others lay tumbled in meaningless heaps , but still others seemed to be set in distinguishable lines and circles . |
| 30 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |