Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 2 | He had been asked to make savings of £440,000 over the next three years but says , without more money , police vacancies will be frozen and jobs will be lost . |
| 3 | At Messina they succeeded in winning the support of Italy for a move towards broad economic integration , triumphing over both a more limited conception advocated by West Germany that fell somewhere between supranationalism and the old sectoral route , and the doubts of France over the whole concept of a common market . |
| 4 | After several months of uncertainty over the future political direction of the Civic Forum movement , its contending factions agreed in February to form separate organizations ; the Democratic Right Club 's supporters were to become the Civic Democratic Party , while the Liberal Club would formed itself into the Civic Movement . |
| 5 | Ronald Venetiaan , the candidate of the coalition New Front for Democracy and Development ( NF ) , was elected President on Sept. 7 , ending four months of uncertainty over the future government of the country . |
| 6 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |
| 7 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 8 | In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few . |
| 9 | He showed no signs of improvement over the next 48 hours . |
| 10 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 11 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 12 | They seem to be working their way around the main shopping areas of Britain over the last two years . |
| 13 | THE National Science Foundation in the US funded a two-to three-year study ‘ to examine the many areas of controversy over the scientific use , development , and application of gene-transplantation research ’ . |
| 14 | It may be that ‘ no action ’ would turn out to be a very wise option based on the experiences of miniaturisation over the last 30 years or so . |
| 15 | Whereas statements in the autonomous scientific field are descriptive statements , legal utterances are performatives in their very effects of power over the social . |
| 16 | A Russian , the first of nine charter flights due to ferry in nine hundred tonnes of rice over the next two weeks . |
| 17 | In other words , without continued energy efficiency improvements , Europe , North America , Japan and Australasia would need the equivalent of an extra 1,300 million tonnes of oil over the next 7 years . |
| 18 | Thus change in household and housing circumstances of people over the 1970s will be analysed by their characteristics at the earlier census to establish which factors are important in this process . |
| 19 | There was two feet of sand over the highest part of the island where the wind had carried it and all the heavy bridge-building machines were on their sides . |
| 20 | Take a typical staircase in your home ( 3–35° ) , tilt it to match the angle of the sides of Egypt 's Great Pyramids at Giza ( 52° ) , remove some of the steps , and shovel ice and a couple of feet of snow over the whole affair . |
| 21 | While there have been some minor reductions of segregation over the last century , the basic fact of extensive segregation by gender in employment remains a striking feature of the labour market . |
| 22 | This involved an attempt to accurately define the organisational and administrative needs of business over the next decade and , within this context , to draw up a taxonomy of secretarial skills suitable for this environment . |
| 23 | SIR , — Of a total of 3715,762 infants delivered in Japan after 23 weeks of gestation over the three years 1989 to 1991 , 22,531 were stillborn . |
| 24 | Quoted in an interview in Pravda , Konovalov said that his ministry was set to triple output by 2000 , adding an extra 19,600 megawatts of capacity over the next ten years . |
| 25 | Lord Porter , who delivered the only speech , referred to a number of earlier cases dealing with the construction of ‘ carrying on a business ’ for the purposes of jurisdiction over the separate property of married women . |
| 26 | To play a part in the problems of geology over the next few decades geomorphologists must forget their trivial catchments and see mega forests instead of trees … |
| 27 | Coal , West Germany 's only significant indigenous resource , has enjoyed two drastic changes of fortune over the past twenty years or so . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is through the implementation of this agreed machinery that disciplinary tribunals and the Inns themselves , with the consent of the Lord Chief Justice , are now able to exercise extended powers of control over the professional conduct of barristers , with a wider range of penalties , but subject always , in the case of decisions by tribunals , to a right of appeal to the visitors : see Disciplinary Tribunal Regulations 1990 , regulations 22 and 30 . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it is good practice to grant the tenant express rights of access over the common parts of the building . |