Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] over [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you take out a Midland Car Loan you have the choice of repaying the money over any period from 6 months to 5 years ( in steps of 6 months ) . |
| 2 | The DUP had the advantage over other politicians of not being in the game of pragmatic compromise . |
| 3 | Codification has the advantage over other kinds of state power that it generally lasts . |
| 4 | MRI may show involvement of the renal veins and inferior vena cava in renal cell carcinoma and has the advantage over computed tomography of demonstrating the tumour/thrombus not only in the axial but in the coronal plane where the superior and inferior extent of involvement can be clearly shown . |
| 5 | bureaucratic models , emphasizing the limited control of the electorate over many aspects of public decision-making and the goals of those who administer government policies ; |
| 6 | The best way to place the liner on this edge is to put a row of bricks directly onto the collar , bring the liner over this row of bricks and then lay another row . |
| 7 | Instead he found mighty walled cities and disciplined armies , capable of subjugating the Orcs and keeping the peace over huge stretches of territory . |
| 8 | It is difficult to predict whether or not judicial review will be useful in clarifying the law over unmet need in the NHS and Community Care Act . |
| 9 | The two sides in the battle over admitting men to an Oxford women 's college have been putting their case to University Chancellor , Lord Jenkins . |
| 10 | The move was an attempt to break the hold over local government of the FIS , which in June 1990 had won control of 853 municipalities and 32 provinces [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 11 | It continues to maintain a negative rating outlook on IBM because of its business uncertainties and the question over ultimate success of restructuring . |
| 12 | The shift over recent years to the data-based study of actually occurring language , as distinct from a reliance on the linguist 's intuition as a representative user , has yielded new information about English — for example , new facts about frequency of usage and about the use of language in the achievement of meaning in context . |
| 13 | In April and May 1988 , having left the initiative over inland offensives for so many years to Iran , the Iraqis launched two swift attacks . |
| 14 | Henceforth the Works expanded , and L & NWR coaching stock evolved , to take the lead over all rivals in Great Britain and perhaps Europe . |
| 15 | The number of quarrels of this type decreased with age but still held the lead over other types for all ages . |
| 16 | US administrations did not follow through previous threats to invoke the amendment over Norwegian whaling for research purposes in the 1980s and 1992 , but this time it is being considered as a sanction against commercial whaling . |
| 17 | The European Commission continued during this period to pursue a resolution of the conflict over technical standards for high definition television ( HDTV ) broadcasting in the single market after 1993 . |
| 18 | Dee looked out of the window of the flat over long rows of grim , dark housing developments . |
| 19 | Since 1961 ( to be precise , since Selwyn Lloyd 's ‘ pay pause ’ that summer ) British people had given sustaining the economy the priority over foreign affairs among their concerns . |
| 20 | The average torque produced by the motor over one step at maximum load is : The total phase resistance , R = 18.0 + 2.0 ohms = 20.0 ohms and for a rated phase current of 1.0 A the required d.c. supply voltage c = 20 V. For two-phases-on excitation the fundamental component of supply voltage is V = 4 X d/T ( Fig. 5.5 ) , i.e. V = 25.5 V. The peak magnet flux linkages with each phase winding ( M ) can now be found by solving Eqn . |
| 21 | Extending the debate over minimum standards to new trading partners in the East is a long way off . |
| 22 | The debate over regional decentralization in the 1960s and '70s thus raised many crucial issues about the nature of explanation in the social sciences . |
| 23 | But in his belief that economic efficiency must if necessary take priority over social justice , Keynes lacked the left-Liberal vision of a new moral order in society , More than half of Dr Clarke 's book is devoted to the debate over economic policy between 1928 and 1930 . |
| 24 | This concern has been manifest in the debate over intergenerational conflict about access to resources . |
| 25 | THE DRUG company SmithKline Beecham fuelled the debate over top salaries on the eve of the election by disclosing that its two senior executive directors collected more than £3.5 million last year , up 35 per cent on 1990 . |
| 26 | The debate over human origins in nineteenth-century Britain provides a helpful example . |
| 27 | He was on record as saying that he regarded the agonizing over Equal Opportunities on a paper which did not even exist as — at best — a red herring . |
| 28 | In the process of sexual selection , certain males were said to develop characteristics that gave them the edge over other males in the competition for females . |
| 29 | These effective treatments , along with his rejection of blood-letting , purging and polypharmacy which weakened rather than helped the patient , gave homoeopathy the edge over orthodox therapy for most of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | THE furore over Labour ideas for breaking Ulster 's political log-jam and efforts to block demands for the party to recruit in the province is expected to intensify this month . |