Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lobbied the British Board of Dream Classification over the blasphemy rulings . |
| 2 | Mindful of questions such as these , many Third World governments have tried to establish food policies in order to ensure an acceptable level of food security over the medium and long term . |
| 3 | Step forward trousers , whose sudden success is a direct result of designer indecision over skirt lengths . |
| 4 | The Bureau was closed down in 1979 and an interesting experiment in State control over the geography of office location came to an end ( Manners and Morris , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | The steep fall in interest rates over the past two years has boosted their operating profits enormously . |
| 6 | However , the most direct influence of county councils over housing and the social composition of villages occurs in their policies for restricting the growth of some settlements in favour of ‘ key villages ’ . |
| 7 | In two large and representative necropsy studies the cumulative incidence of prostate cancer over all ages was found to be 32.9% and 18.2% . |
| 8 | The conference approved the Economic Equality policy review which proposes : Ending tax on childcare ; Introducing a minimum wage starting at half of average male earnings ( £2.80 an hour ) , rising to two-thirds the average ; Income tax levels of no higher than 50 per cent at the top , down to less than 20 per cent at the bottom ; ‘ A significant and generous increase in child benefit over the lifetime of the Parliament ’ ; To tax gifts and inheritance at the point of receipt ; To crack down on tax loopholes ; Raise pensions immediately by £5 for single people and £8 for couples ; To introduce a new disability benefit ; To simplify income support rules ; To keep mortgage interest tax relief ‘ at a single rate equivalent to the basic rate relief which we inherit ’ . |
| 9 | A false dawn breaks over the high street Despite media excitement over Christmas trading , 1993 promises to be another difficult year for retail demand |
| 10 | Cawson defines corporatism as a process ‘ in which organizations representing monopolistic functional interests engage in political exchange with state agencies over public policy outputs which involves those organizations in a role that combines interest representation and policy implementation through delegated self-enforcement ’ ( 1985a , p. 8 ) . |
| 11 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 12 | Such deterrent action seems obvious but there has been an across-the-board reluctance by BCU committees over the years for the membership to have been informed of punishments handed out for any misdemeanours . |
| 13 | FIG. 1 The barycentric period of PSR J0437–4715 over an interval of 15 days showing the Doppler effect of the 5.7-day orbital period . |
| 14 | Entitlement theory therefore offers no satisfactory justification of private property in general , and hence , for the purposes of our more limited enquiry , establishes no moral basis for shareholder control over corporate property in particular . |
| 15 | Against Kent at The Oval in 1922 , he scored 137 in 90 minutes and hit a fast-medium widish half-volley from G.J. Bryan over extra cover for six . |
| 16 | But now the NZRFU , having taken the high moral ground against South Africa over drug-testing and drug-use , must also show that they are as clean as driven snow . |
| 17 | These aspects were however briefly treated in an earlier review by Teichmüller and Teichmüller ( 1981 ) which discussed the relative depth — maturity relationships for four Carboniferous coal basins in northwest Germany and the effect of intrusive heating on vitrinite profiles over the Bramische Massif . |
| 18 | A vague statement of principle papers over policy disputes . |
| 19 | Recommendation 18 , meanwhile , with its suggestion of a committee to advise on grant priorities , was seen as threatening to introduce a dangerous element of state supervision over what students ought to study . |
| 20 | Comprehensive evaluation of company performance over these broader activities is not available , but the little which is known about individual companies suggests that financial objectives were more important than they might appear on the surface . |
| 21 | With the vast expansion in library collections over the past 20 years , library professionals have had to deal with an ever increasing burden in the production and maintenance of library catalogues . |
| 22 | Based on this information , meteorological and atmospheric dispersion models are employed to predict the spatial distribution of pollution concentrations over the area . |
| 23 | Finally , on a high pedestal , an incarnation of artistic genius , Beethoven sits naked the body of white marble with alabaster drapery over lap and legs , on a bronze throne . |
| 24 | The results suggest that such policies have relatively little impact on investment demand over the longer term . |
| 25 | There are a large number of research projects over a wide range of topics in health and health care : what health is and how it is to be valued , what influences health , the demand for and supply of health care , market equilibria and micro evaluation of treatments to system evaluation and the efficacy of planning , budgeting and monitoring mechanisms available to policy makers . |
| 26 | Mr Lutz Stavenhagen said that he expected 11 out of the 12 EC leaders in Strasbourg to endorse the proposal — a reference to the renewed isolation of Mrs Thatcher over the issue . |
| 27 | The first , ‘ conservative ’ option proposes a gradual switch to market principles over an unspecified number of years . |
| 28 | In a relaxed first address to Labour 's Scottish conference at Inverness which brought him a warm reception , he closed the embarrassing divide in party ranks over water privatisation . |
| 29 | Saunders has a cloud over him with the possibility of legal action by Paul Elliott over a tackle which ruled out the Chelsea defender for the season . |
| 30 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |