Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's been a shift over the last six years from government funded government grant supported provision to Poll Tax ratepayer provision of these services . |
| 2 | Particularly encouraging to the E&P management has been a gain over the last year in net income to the equivalent of about $3.50 per barrel of oil produced , putting BP well ahead of the performance of most other oil majors judged by the same yardstick and only marginally behind Exxon , the largest US oil company . |
| 3 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't want to be a dictator over the whole thing , to tell them what to do . |
| 5 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 6 | By looking at the world through progressively defocused and focused binoculars , we can quickly convince ourselves that there is a graded series of focusing quality , each step in the series being an improvement over the previous one . |
| 7 | Then there 's a supplement over the four or five person rate to cover our risk that one or two berths may not be filled , and to cover the extra administration effort needed to handle four ( or five ! ) separate sets of paperwork instead of just one . |
| 8 | That , the increa there is an increase over the Wellent er Flood Defence , Wellent and Flood Defence Committee , two and a half per cent , but that as Severn Trent , is set at a zero increase . |
| 9 | Whilst this is an increase over the 1991 level of 41,000 boepd , it is lower than originally anticipated due to the delay in the commencement of production from Piper and lower production from Ninian as a result of the deferral of well workovers from 1992 to 1993 . |
| 10 | In the American Cemetery near Cambridge , England there is an inscription over the Great Wall which lists the men missing in action . |
| 11 | From 1947 to 1950 there was a contest over the rival merits of enterprise agreements against collective industrial bargaining but the Densan precedent had the support of the US occupation , the Japanese state and local employers . |
| 12 | Officials at Japan 's Ministry of International Trade & Industry now say that they 're tired of quibbling over market share figures with the US , and say they do n't intend to allow the US to establish a new market share goal in upcoming semiconductor talks , which will begin in Hawaii next Tuesday , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ Because there was a controversy over the old 20% figure , which was taken as some form of commitment , we have no intention of referring to any new numbers ’ Koji Matsui , deputy director of the industrial electronics division of the Ministry declared . |
| 13 | We felt this was an improvement over the rival system of inserting a tommy bar through the collet and using one spanner . |
| 14 | The result was an improvement over the unsupervised product , and yet we still felt that further urban differentiation might be possible . |