Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 40(1) of the Patents Act 1977 permits an employee inventor to apply to either tribunal for a single or periodic award of compensation over and above the salary he is already earning . |
| 2 | If the flat only has one entrance/exit ( which it will because it is not on the ground floor ) , it should have a fire escape , or some means of escape over a balcony or roof . |
| 3 | The trade deficit had to be either financed or reduced : the former course meant courting the international financial institutions with their implicit or explicit power of veto over domestic policy , while the latter meant either fiscal deflation in excess of the deflation of demand already induced by the OPEC financial surplus ( in paradoxical combination with cost-inflation ) or setting up stringent import controls . |
| 4 | With press media , it is possible to spread the same money over a much longer period , especially if monthly magazines are used , since monthlies accumulate their readership of as many as 10 or 11 readers per copy over quite a long period . |
| 5 | As some of these private functions of unions have been taken over by welfare state agencies , unions have taken on other roles — especially representing their members in legal or industrial tribunals in claims over redundancy , discrimination , and negligence . |
| 6 | But yesterday 's Virgin statement said : ‘ British Airways has sought from Virgin onerous and impractical undertakings including silence over matters of historical record . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This delightful museum , set in a group of 17th Century cottages , presents a realistic glimpse of every day domestic and commercial life in Nottingham over the last 300 years . |
| 9 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 10 | Maire Carroll , serving in the shop and hating it , felt a firm and vicious sense of satisfaction over the fate of Eve and Benny , but of course she pretended great care and concern . |
| 11 | The long , arduous and structured process of conflict over the annual budgets gave the mandarins a chance to probe detailed questions of rural electrification , delays in connecting particular consumers , hire purchase finance , and other relatively minor areas . |
| 12 | Nikos , the owner , has developed an informal and relaxed style of service over the last eleven years that 'll make you feel quite at home . |
| 13 | Although the 1944 Education Act placed upon all local education authorities the statutory duty to provide adequate facilities for further education , defining further education as full-time or part-time education and leisure-time occupation for persons over compulsory school-leaving age , it made no reference to higher education as such . |
| 14 | Cell fusion and genetic research at Oxford over the past two decades have shown that malignancy and the ability of tumours to spread and kill an animal can be suppressed by the function of normal cellular genes . |
| 15 | Cod of 14 lb and 11 lb at Anchorsholme over low water . |
| 16 | The neglected , but instructive , sub-text to the passions aroused by the BBC director-general 's financial affairs is the ambitious and contentious agenda of reforms over which he has presided in the run-up to the renewal of the corporation 's charter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There have been considerable changes in vocabulary and slight changes in pronunciation over the last fifty years . |
| 19 | If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months . |
| 20 | The results contained in the Report suggest total losses of between 0.8 and 2.0 inches per day over the surface of the canal . |
| 21 | Backbench protests and revolts have , however , tended to increase in recent years , reflecting the changing background of MPs , and growing divisions of opinion over policy issues within parties ( see Norton , 1985 , pp. 23–81 ) . |
| 22 | Codes of practice were supposed to protect the customer , by dangling the threat of expulsion and consequent loss of income over the practitioners . |
| 23 | that the , to cope with the expression on that there , that erm we , we must fund , fund this referral unit , erm coming last to capital , erm many of school buildings are in an abysmal and dilapidated position through neglect over many , many years before er , we 've given perhaps , erm , but our meagre a hundred and ninety thousand er I 've , I admit wo n't go very far . |
| 24 | The orthodox account points to the following factors as implicated in the crisis : ( 1 ) the high prison population ( or ‘ numbers crisis , ) ; ( 2 ) overcrowding ; ( 3 ) bad conditions within prison ( for both inmates and prison officers ) ; ( 4 ) understaffing ; ( 5 ) unrest among the staff ; ( 6 ) poor security ; ( 7 ) the ‘ toxic mix ’ of life sentence prisoners , politically motivated prisoners and mentally disturbed inmates ; ( 9 ) riots and other breakdowns of control over prisoners . |
| 25 | In the Japanese style of manufacturing , two things are vital : the elimination of waste in production and stocks by ‘ just-in-time ’ delivery of parts ; and close co-operation with parts-suppliers over quality as well as R&D . |
| 26 | This simple observation is crucial to the argument of this chapter , as it allows us to question ingrained assumptions concerning the superiority and greater significance of language over other forms of expression . |
| 27 | If however support is evenly spread throughout a country or province but is insufficient in any one constituency to reach this threshold , a party may achieve a small but respectable proportion of votes over all constituencies without securing a seat . |
| 28 | The plants here have a dense but high canopy of leaves over them during the summer ; so , apart from the odd shaft of sunlight , the conditions are overcast but not dark . |
| 29 | But 18 months of argument over the treaty has left Denmark deeply divided . |