Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question remains as to the optimal method of obtaining a consistent estimate of the parameter on the change term in wealth over the full sample period . |
| 2 | The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations . |
| 3 | The multi-million pound trail of destruction over the past 12 months includes the following outrages : |
| 4 | This study was designed to compare the efficacy and safety of oral fluticasone propionate with prednisolone over a four week period in the treatment of active colitis . |
| 5 | Malt export sales for delivery over the next twelve months have gone exceptionally well . |
| 6 | As we saw earlier , the fact that the producing units of an industry increase in size over a number of years may be explained by the functional relation between their size and the cost of production . |
| 7 | The party 's deputy leader , Donald McKinnon , immediately resigned as defence spokesperson in protest over the volte face . |
| 8 | Karimov claims to have discovered a direct correlation between nuclear tests conducted at the Soviet testing site of Semipalatinsk over the years and earthquakes throughout the former Soviet Union . |
| 9 | There is now a major question mark in policy-making over the meaning of ‘ regeneration ’ and particularly over who benefits from regenerative policies . |
| 10 | Take the Bunnymen , overlay every cartoon watchword in pop over the past twenty years , and you 've got — The Mighty Lemon Drops ! |
| 11 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 12 | The Rural Development Commission expects 100,000 job losses in agriculture over the next decade and 50,000 associated redundancies because of CAP reform . |
| 13 | Thus , when the Bank of England wishes to bring about a change in base rates , which in turn affect all other sterling rates of interest over the whole yield curve , it does so by adjusting its money market intervention rates , in what must be , by definition , the discount market . |
| 14 | Reports in early April , covering the Rao-Wickremasingh meeting , noted the Indian government 's desire to bring LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran to justice over the May 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi [ see p. 38175 ] ( although no specific request had been made to Sri Lanka ) , and the claim that the LTTE planned a further series of assassinations in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to counter the state government 's clampdown on its activities there . |
| 15 | The air of human drama and of history in the making is especially potent in times of crisis , when leaders can be shown locked in combat , for example Reagan with Gadaffi over the US bombing of Libya in April 1986 . |
| 16 | The product development venture , SunSolutions , a new moon circling Sun Technology Enterprises , last week debuted its first product , ShowMe , its computer conference software : based on Open Look , it says it can be deployed for on-line meetings and collaborating on compound documents in real-time over a TCP/IP net work . |
| 17 | The mean number of Scottish geology theses per university over the period is 18.3 , or 3.3% of the total . |
| 18 | Kinawley are now supremely fit , and they enhanced their championship credentials with victory over the double champions Enniskillen in the quarter-final , before overcoming Roslea at the semi-final stage . |
| 19 | Later she sat and watched the golden sky turn to ruby over the roofs , the distant trees of the park blacken and fade . |
| 20 | Line lengths averaged 51 kms , compared to the North Sea norm of 15kms and the Nordic Explorer averaged a production rate of 70 sail line kms per day over the period . |
| 21 | As Green points out , in sub-Saharan Africa , technical assistance seems to have been the only real growth area in aid over the past half decade . |
| 22 | In the Eastern Atlantic , at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy where shell-shape variation in N. lapillius is generally reduced ( Crothers , 1983a ) , McEachreon ( 1985 ) has recently demonstrated a shell shape trend with exposure over a proportionally-reduced numerical range . |
| 23 | I spent half an hour painting layer upon layer over the hole and went to bed , and in the morning took two hours picking the varnish off because I 'm quite hairy , and then the damn thing moved again . |
| 24 | Rockling , dabs , odd flounder and school bass at night over the sandbanks at Llandanwg . |
| 25 | The permanent military garrisons in Scotland provided a number of minor posts which featured prominently in burgh politics , particularly in Stirling , where the Christie family influence in council over an extended period ensured that much of the small change of military patronage came their way . |
| 26 | Unstable east face of Mam Tor with view over the Hope Valley towards the pyramid of Losehill Pike in the Peak District . |
| 27 | With interest rates in doubt over the next 12 months at least , a five , seven , even 10 year fixed rate would provide the peace of mind the father of a young family needs . |
| 28 | This would deprive party bosses of control over the election . |