Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun pl] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the shareholders no longer exercised the direct control of principals over the directors as their agents , the model nevertheless asserts that any danger that the directors might use their considerable discretionary powers to manage the business in their own interest is precluded . |
| 2 | Each judge will submit a completed list of nominations over the next couple of weeks and the eventual winners will be presented with their awards at a special ceremony early in the new year . |
| 3 | Frightened off by such high figures , many collectors renounce the attempt to assemble a complete range of bindings over the centuries and , sensibly , turn to more limited fields ; for example , to books stamped with the coats of arms or crests of early owners in gilt or ‘ blind ’ ( without gold or colour ) . |
| 4 | the average number of customers over the week ( add each day 's total customers together , then divide that total by the number of days in the working week ) . |
| 5 | But both could be ( confusingly ) described as average number of competitors over the same region as the intended word . |
| 6 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 7 | " Our objective is to test the law on the system of consents , by which companies are allowed to discharge limited amounts of pollutants over the course of a year " , explained a Greenpeace spokeswoman , Debbie Adams . |
| 8 | With the introduction of general management , an attempt has been made to address the clinician-management interface directly and to challenge formally , at least in theory , the tight grip of doctors over the NHS as an organisation . |
| 9 | We have however entered a large number of competitions over the years : the FA Cup , FA Vase , County Shield , Debenhams Floodlit Cup and the Sherpa Tensing Van Trophy to name but a few . |
| 10 | He 'd had my bald account of events over the telephone in the morning , his first knowledge of what had happened . |
| 11 | In a remarkable series of investigations over the past four years , the MMC has examined the practices in beer , petroleum , and motor vehicle supply . |
| 12 | People also experience radically unequal patterns of earnings over the span of their working lives as employees . |
| 13 | There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills . |
| 14 | The key to a healthy , nourishing diet for children is variety — aim to give your child a good range of foods over the course of a week or so and you can be pretty certain she 'll get the nutrients she needs . |
| 15 | This gradual build-up of reps over the first 3 sessions will reduce the amount of stiffness and soreness experienced in the muscles at the start of the programme . |
| 16 | Despite this minimal preparation , and regular changes of personnel over the past fortnight , they achieved a wholly implausible blend of skill , aggression and indomitable spirit . |
| 17 | Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world . |
| 18 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 19 | On this basis we would assess the impact of , say , a state pension plan in terms of the present value of contributions relative to the present value of pensions over the lifetime , and the answers are likely to be considerably different from the pattern of redistribution in terms of current incomes . |
| 20 | And it has suffered an extraordinary series of mishaps over the past decade . |
| 21 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 22 | Councils have had an enormous amount of money through their hands , and have spent it in an equally enormous number of areas over the past 12 years . |
| 23 | There have been an enormous series of changes over the last ten or fifteen years , and maybe some school teachers would be glad if it slowed down a little bit to make their life a little easier , I do n't know . |
| 24 | Moreover , by relating this information to data on spreading rates , the directions of relative plate motions derived from the analysis of earthquakes , and palaeomagnetic evidence of continental palaeolatitudes , it has been possible to establish the direction and speed of present-day plate motions and what is probably a fairly accurate history of movements over the past 200 Ma or so ( Fig. 2.16 ) . |
| 25 | Of course , the increase in the total number of firms over the period was not one third , but two thirds — to nearly 3 million , or an average increase of almost 500 every working day . |
| 26 | Tax evasion is a similar problem in interpreting the sixteenth-century subsidy rolls , while any deductions based on the military survey , a crude census of males over the age of sixteen , must allow not only for children but also for the balance between men and women in the population as a whole . |
| 27 | Theda had followed in the Gallery of Fashion — which all her young charges had avidly studied — the steady rise of waists over the last three or four years , but never before had she felt quite so outdated . |
| 28 | If evolutionary studies provided a vertical dimension within which objects could signify the development of societies , this was complemented by the growth of diffusionary studies in which the horizontal distribution of objects over the globe was thought to be further evidence for the movements of both peoples and ideas , for example , from origins in ancient Egypt or Germany . |
| 29 | This is not good news for Leeds who are coming upto a difficult series of games over the next month . |
| 30 | This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years . |