Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving town he had a professional shave , shampoo and trim — not too much off — just the straggle of hair over his collar . |
| 2 | It is worth noting that it was not the Committee 's objective to assert directly the primacy of English over classics , but instead to capture for their subject some of the cultural authority invested in classics for an altered social and educational purpose . |
| 3 | It is also the item of expenditure over which a mother is most likely to exert control . |
| 4 | Despite all the theory about schemas , in the absence of a crisis the really critical factor in creating the felt need for change is probably the acquisition of power over the organization 's reward/penalty system . |
| 5 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 6 | Here again there is negligible waste of power , but unfortunately the range of frequencies over which a transformer will act as a potential or current divider is restricted by the behaviour of the core , there being both a lower and upper limit . |
| 7 | If we further take account of intergenerational differences , then the coefficient of variation over all generations , denoted by , is the weighted sum of individual plus the coefficient of variation obtained if everyone had the mean income of their generation ( the ‘ between-generations ’ inequality ) . |
| 8 | If it is indeed the loosening of control over associative thought — Woolf 's ‘ Wings in the Head ’ — that is the basic mechanism responsible for autism then the question arises : what is it about the mind that modulates this process , allowing it some free rein , though being capable on occasions of going badly awry , leading to psychosis ? |