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

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1 Mini-bus services have been experimented with in a number of areas , although the savings over larger buses are not always felt to be great and , frequently , mini-buses will be too small to cope with maximum demand over part of the route ( Dobbs 1979 ) .
2 The winter migrations are beginning , and the skies over northern India are alive with transiting birds .
3 It may be that Britain has overemphasised the potential benefits of free trade ; that she has actually benefited from the protectionist philosophy which permeates the EEC ; that being a member of a cohesive new power bloc is what has counted ; that the ‘ fight ’ with the Americans over agricultural matters is a case in point ; that had she been on her own , Britain would have been trampled over by her cousins on the other side of the Atlantic .
4 WHATEVER the hopes of the Conservative party 's managers , the divisions over European policy are not going to go away .
5 The processes of rethinking and reorganization set in motion by the scandals over unprotected children were slow and painful .
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