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

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1 But a valuation disagreement between the clubs over the Midlands-born defender could wreck the move .
2 The discussions over the Mutual Aid Agreement in early 1942 fully recognised the importance of full employment .
3 Pete and I took an afternoon ferry from Leknes to Napp , and sweltered the bikes over an unnamed pass to Vareid .
4 A hydraulic ram elevates the section of the launcher vehicle housing the four missiles to an angle of 450 ; the caps over the rear ends of the launch tubes fold down , so that the exhaust gases from the booster rockets can pass through ; and the crew can then press the fire button .
5 In the following year , Maurice Peston told a committee of the House of Commons that ‘ those who doubt the innovatory possibilities of British education and the capacity of the DES and the LEAs to help things forward should study the CNAA and the polytechnics over the past decade .
6 In experimental work on the viscosity of the alkanes over a wide range of temperature Doolittle found however that the simple relation where A and B are constants gave a very much better fit to the experimental data , than the Andrade equation From the discussion we have given it is clear that fv is only a linear function of T if the expansion of the liquid is given by the linear equation and this is only true over small temperature ranges .
7 A WAR of words erupted today after Stena Sealink claimed victory in the three-way battle of the waves over the critical summer peak period .
8 The fraud involved creation of false profits and stocks in the books over a seven-year period through use of purported contracts , which in reality did not exist , with third world countries .
9 What is important is to balance the books over the financial cycle .
10 It covered the demobilization , repatriation or relocation of the contras over a 90-day period beginning on Sept. 8 ( i.e. by Dec. 5 ) .
11 But they had no doubt about the emotional hold of the miners over the Labour movement .
12 Being harder and more durable , they also have withstood the elements over the many centuries that have passed since their arrival , while their softer plinths have been eroded by wind and rain and frost , leaving unaffected only those parts actually under the ‘ umbrella ’ protection of the boulders above .
13 But relations between the two clubs have remained good and two Derry players , Jonathan Speak and Gregory Kearney , have moved to the Showgrounds over the past year .
14 Kevin slipped the two connectors over the thinner pipe , and supported the weight with soil and stones , while he slid the connectors over the larger sections of pipe to complete the repair .
15 Each strategy will be given its own management team , which will be expected to work out all the effects over the whole company , including estimates of resource requirements for each subsidiary business .
16 ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice .
17 ‘ The gigantic power and influence of the ovaries over the whole animal economy of woman ’ , as Dr Bliss put it in 1870 , meant that women 's constitutions were believed to be inherently unstable throughout the life cycle .
18 First , Leconte demolished Sampras in straight sets before teaming with Guy Forget to administer defeat in the doubles over the American pairing of Ken Flach and Robert Seguso .
19 This register of letters deals with the transactions over the imperial question and contains copies of some incoming letters ( including the above ) as well as the highly secret ones being sent out .
20 Despite the behind-the-scenes politics , the most likely outcome of a redesigned Freedom is a slowing of ESA 's programme to spread the costs over a longer period .
21 This compensation is effected by turning the upper part of the rails over a vertical curve , thus diminishing the gradient of the incline and reducing the gravity effect of the upper tank .
22 Mr Shamir said he would stick to his promise not to make concessions to the Palestinians over the occupied territories .
23 The IBOA will , of course , be tackling this particular problem in discussions with the Banks over the coming months .
24 This is one of seven research projects sponsored by the Kings ' Fund Institute which are monitoring the reforms over a three-year period .
25 Yes , so that until they drop out of the system erm , erm , a year from when that stage one decision was making , the teams over the sub teams overall stage one times are likely to be erm considerably higher than they will be in the month immediately after that er multiple has dropped out .
26 The selectors will also consider Curtis Robb who competes in the championships over the metric mile alongside Club mates Lee Cadwallader and Chris May .
27 The confluence of the difficulties over a further Cassell renewal of funding ; the prospect of the focus of her work shifting to Huntingdonshire , and the arrival of Lee in 1931 was perceived by Miss Green as an indication of preparations for her displacement in Northamptonshire and eventual redundancy ; for which there appears to be no documentary basis .
28 Given the changes over the previous decade , a further review of the size and distribution of the Leicestershire residential care sector was considered to be essential both to set an information baseline before the implementation of the National Health Service and Community Care Act and to document changes in the demography and levels of dependency of the residential care population .
29 Regional and local variations in socio-economic characteristics , labour supply , age structure and ethnic composition , particularly relating to 1981 and the changes over the previous decade , are described by Champion et al .
30 In the following section we shall examine the changes that have occurred in the UK economy in the decades leading up to the latest period of structural change , the changes over the post-war period culminating in what is often called the deindustrialization of the UK .
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