Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun pl] over [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT .
2 The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality .
3 Austin Texas-based Alliance Technologies Inc will introduce TextMachine , a set of tools for indexing , storing and accessing large volumes of documents over client/server architectures .
4 One of the major advantages of letters over telephone conversations is that they provide a permanent record .
5 The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay .
6 A growing number of disputes over building contracts has inevitably led to more cases coming before the courts or arbitrators .
7 The division between incomers and Shetlanders in Dunrossness seems to have been an immediate product of conflicts over land and housing , a consequence of some residential patterns in the area , an outcome of changes in the accepted rules in the ‘ status game ’ and , perhaps , an inevitable result of policy predictions .
8 To say anything sensible about ( d ) and ( c ) , substantial long-term studies of changes over time as well as in different places are called for .
9 Standard techniques may be used to make broad comparisons between groups of individuals but the statistical analysis of changes over time and interrelationships between events , topics often of special interest to the psychologist , is much less well understood .
10 The huge loss of dollars under ‘ other transactions ’ in 1947 reflects the short-lived abolition of controls over access to dollars in that year .
11 This will have a wide range of powers over health , education and housing and over significant aspects of industrial and economic policy ’ .
12 In recent months , after the computerisation of employment records , the service has been the focus of a wide range of stoppages over staffing .
13 First and foremost this involved a whole battery of controls over production and consumption .
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