Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the ‘ O Group ’ I 'm in the picture for the tasking over the next twenty-four hours . |
| 2 | The plan provides for the construction over the next three years of municipal effluent treatment plants in all towns along the river with a population of over 20,000 , the beginning of construction of such plants for cities of more than 50,000 , and the elimination of industrial sources of pollution . |
| 3 | On Nov. 14 Amato submitted to parliament an ambitious programme of privatization to raise L 27,000,000 million for the Treasury over the next three years , leaving the state with only " significant " minority holdings in many sectors . |
| 4 | More important for the present discussion , however , was the spatial variability in both support for the strike over the full period and the rate of the drift back to work . |
| 5 | Mr Tabiner , 40 , sees the unitary issue as one of the major issues for the council over the next few years . |
| 6 | Brian Roycroft , President of the Association of Directors of Social Services in 1988 , in answer to the question ‘ What is the incidence of child abuse and child sexual abuse ? ’ in his evidence to the Cleveland Inquiry , reported that : He went on to say , however , that his association undertook a survey in July 1987 of 100 local authorities and found an increase in child abuse registrations of 22 per cent for the country over the previous year , with the most significant increases in child sexual abuse . |
| 7 | His average speed of 157.62 kph ( 97.96 mph ) was to remain an all-time record for the race over the full course . |
| 8 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 9 | The women centre has served a vital need for the community over the last six or seven years , and if it closes down all that work is basically gone and all the support that we 've build up has gone , because basically there 'll be nowhere that women can go to socialise and to find out what 's going on in Oxford . |
| 10 | It is fascinating to see how theory and experiment have vied for the lead over the past 30 years , with first one then the other leading the way . |
| 11 | A first tranche of $2,500 million was for the refinancing over the next seven years of Italian state guaranteed credits due between January 1990 and January 1991 . |
| 12 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 13 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
| 14 | The poet , playwright and painter , Stanislaw Wyspiański ( 1869–1907 ) , saw himself as the bridge over the confused gulf that separated the Polish intelligentsia and the peasantry , the perfect representative of the Young Poland movement that contained all the bitterness of repeated national defeats , all the resignation of patriots who felt they could change nothing , and all the compromised hopes for material change that the Positivists saw in Poland 's potential industrial wealth under foreign rule . |
| 15 | Dust floated in the beams of light that flooded through the fanlight over the front door . |
| 16 | Some public sector organizations have been through the debate over an agonizing number of years : local authorities in the UK did so at the turn of the century and generally concluded that ‘ receipts and payments ’ was not sufficient . |
| 17 | She was still there some time later , gazing sightlessly through the glass over the snow-covered fields beyond , when she felt a strange tingle in the back of her neck , and knew he was standing behind her . |
| 18 | TOP Liverpool radio DJ Tony Snell was due to meet station bosses today after being taken off the air over a live bust-up with a listener . |
| 19 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 20 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
| 21 | Mr Court was a principal architect of this Society as it is today and I am grateful for this opportunity to pay tribute to the very considerable part he has played in the development of the Society over the past 16 years . |
| 22 | Finally , so as to limit the range of the compensation over the useful audible range to about 40dB , the system reverts to constant velocity for the lowest frequencies , with a benefit as regards possible ‘ rumble ’ as a bonus . |
| 23 | Accumulation of observations would allow one to specify statistical properties of the motion , such as the average kinetic and potential energy of the pendulum over a large number of periods ( cf. the statistical specification of turbulent motion , Section 19.2 ) . |
| 24 | This would result in flow of the matrix over the undeformed fibrils giving , again , a permanently deformed product but one in which the fibril length was unchanged . |
| 25 | The work at Wharram Percy reflects the development of medieval rural settlement studies in England and our understanding of the implications of the development of the landscape over the last 30 years . |
| 26 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 27 | Mr Briggs and his keeper have carried out most of the work over the last 30 years with help from an apprentice , part time estate workers and contractors . |
| 28 | The abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1747 substantially increased the influence of the Government over the Scottish voters by effectively restricting judicial patronage to the Crown . |
| 29 | Interviewed on the BBC 's Today programme , he defended the record of the Government over the past 13 years . |
| 30 | Michael Barnes was forty-five , an Oxford-educated barrister who specialized in planning law and whose main involvement in major public inquiries had been on behalf of the government over the proposed Stansted Airport . |