Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chauthala had been forced to resign by the Janata Dal leadership after months of controversy over a state-level by-election in Haryana 's Meham constituency . |
| 2 | In May Devi Lal 's son , Om Prakash Chauthala , had been forced to resign as the Janata Dal Chief Minister of Haryana ( a post he had effectively inherited from his father in December 1989 ) after months of controversy over a state-level by-election [ see p. 37452 ] . |
| 3 | Angela was fishing ‘ flying collar ’ tactics with redgills over an offshore wreck on board Malcolm Bowden 's ‘ Pegasus II ’ out of Rathmullan . |
| 4 | Hyperbolic functions are commonly used in kinetics : eg , the speed of waves in water over a shallow bottom is given by : V ² = 1.8 L th ( 6.3 d / L ) where V is velocity in knots and L is the wavelength in feet . |
| 5 | The father , Mr P , also an English incomer to Orkney , had carried out various forms of abuse over a long period of time . |
| 6 | The team at Oxford 's cancer fund are now planning longer term research with other organisations world-wide to assess the effects of tamoxifen over a longer period of time to see if it can continue saving lives . |
| 7 | A PWR is estimated to produce 8 tonnes of plutonium over a 35-year operational life , and an AGR 5 tonnes over 25 years . |
| 8 | It follows years of wrangling over a controversial by-pass . |
| 9 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 10 | They are to maximize the lineage 's accumulation of symbolic capital , and not primarily over principles of power over a whole society . |
| 11 | Analysis of the moment-by-moment changes in performance over a ten-minute period has shown that while the sleep-deprived subject may be performing well at the beginning , all responses are slowed towards the end , as well as frank lapses occurring . |
| 12 | He wants the findings and recommendations of the Commission for Local Authority Accounts in Scotland over a special report on the Western Isles Council and BCCI set aside in an action for judicial review that went before Lord Prosser yesterday . |
| 13 | Prospects : A strategy which will secure the backing of the younger , more creative and more frustrated members of ( or aspirants to ) the élite , as well as the Armed forces and KGB ; a strategy with greatest prospects of survival over an extended period , although its potential will depend on how quickly the regime recognises the ‘ second economy ’ to be a ‘ necessary ’ and ‘ non-antagonistic ’ contradiction in a Socialist society . |
| 14 | It is such measurable levels of activity over a given time period however which provide a means of support and comparison . |
| 15 | Keown then left at the end of his contract after being unable to agree terms with Graham over a new deal — and alleging that the sticking point had been a request for £50 a week more than he was offered . |
| 16 | They have given staff in schools the space to meet as a group and get to terms with issues over a longer period , complementing the series of other meetings and team meetings that go on anyway . |
| 17 | While a cannon ball may plough through a line of troops and kill two or three victims , a mortar shell explodes with a tremendous bang , scattering mud , dirt , and bits of shell over a wide area . |
| 18 | Because there is no oxygen in the tips , methane forms , and each tonne of rubbish can produce up to 250 cubic metres of gas over a ten year period . |
| 19 | There are still a few , knowing they have no chance of winning , who enter just for ‘ fun ’ and the feeling of achievement which carrying fifty kilos of coal over an uphill 1,000 metre course can bring . |
| 20 | He was plastering wet threads of hair over a balding pate , and there was a look of alarm in those magnified eyes . |
| 21 | On the other hand , if it is impossible to find any evidence of the congruence between government growth and the requirements of capitalism over a certain period . |
| 22 | The officer must indeed be prepared to sustain his attempts at persuasiveness over a long period of time , a matter which can pose problems , for he must be able to sense when a less conciliatory performance is warranted and a show of force , however discreet , would be appropriate . |
| 23 | In summary , this study shows that ingestion of small amounts of gliadin over a lengthy period causes dose dependent damage to the small intestinal mucosa in children affected with coeliac disease . |
| 24 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
| 25 | The balance between the two varied according to economic circumstances , and it is very difficult for us to reconstruct the nature of these services in detail over a wide area before the thirteenth century . |
| 26 | IBM Corp 's AdStar Corp in San Jose says that six new models of the IBM 9570 Disk Array Subsystem are now available : the new models use RAID-5 architecture and support sustained data rates in excess of 60M-bytes per second over a HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface : the 9570 stores up to 232Gb of data and can be installed on some ES/9000s and 3090s , the RS/6000 and a multitude of non-IBM machines ; the new models — 020 , 040 , 120 , 140 , 220 and 240 — provide both RAID-1 mirrored data and RAID-5 distributed parity capability , ‘ while preserving RAID-3-like performance for large block transfers ’ ; no prices . |
| 27 | For example there were 367 recorded deaths of buzzards over a ten year period , although according to the RSPB the real figure is likely to be ten times that number . |