Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stands in the pretty hill village of Crayke with magnificent views over the Vale of York , and the Dales . |
| 2 | The proportion of these abortions to older married women is declining : 55 per cent of conceptions to married women over age 35 were aborted in 1975 ; 25 per cent in 1985 . |
| 3 | A study was carried out in a Bedfordshire village , i.e. a semi-rural environment , of predation by domestic cats over a one-year period and the results were published in a zoological journal in 1987 . |
| 4 | Erm and er I 've felt that same sense of rightness at many times over these years , this is now our thirty seventh year ? |
| 5 | They contained full sets of clubs with new covers over the woods . |
| 6 | The vertical axis is headed by elected Deans of Faculties and appointed Heads of Department with immediate control over the distribution of resources . |
| 7 | A second survey was undertaken to establish the level of loss of requested items over a six month period . |
| 8 | Arguably , the most productive area of research into higher education over the past 20 years is that concerned with student learning . |
| 9 | These two questions represent the focus of a considerable amount of research by developmental psychologists over the last 30 years . |
| 10 | However , the data in Table 2 do not suggest that the disadvantaged areas of Continental Europe have any major advantage in terms of yields of primary product over those in Britain and Ireland ( Table 3 ) . |
| 11 | But it is the study of finds , and particularly of finds from many sites over a wide area , that fleshes out that skeleton to give a more complete picture of how people lived . |
| 12 | His own rise to fame at club level had demonstrated the superiority of management by one man over management by a group , but the England team was still selected by a dozen officials ‘ expressing their views as to the merits of players without proper regard to blend and balance ’ . |
| 13 | Their exchange illustrated a major bone of contention in early debates over sex teaching : |
| 14 | After a two-year legal battle , Richard Branson and Virgin Atlantic won libel damages of £610,000 from British Airways over its ‘ dirty tricks ’ campaign . |
| 15 | With indirect fuel injection , the well-proven power unit has been a driving force in the growing popularity of diesel amongst British drivers over recent years . |
| 16 | In 1859 he went to the brink of war with American troops over San Juan Island , despite his council 's urging restraint . |
| 17 | This incident is the latest in a spate of attacks against elderly women over the Christmas period , victims support groups say . |
| 18 | Plowden established the principle that decisions involving substantial future expenditure should always be taken in the light of surveys of public expenditure over a number of years , and in relation to the prospective resources . |
| 19 | erm The Schools Council , erm as you may remember , has been putting millions of pounds into educational research over the last dozen years , and all kinds of new curriculum ideas and patterns of organisation have emerged . |
| 20 | Just now the intentions of the Bundesbank and the Fed are especially unclear , because of arguments at both institutions over who is in charge . |
| 21 | The ACFA mailing list represents approximately 68% of patients with cystic fibrosis over the age of 16 in the United Kingdom , and over 80% of those aged 25 or more . |
| 22 | Early in 1929 Humphrys supervised the safe aerial evacuation of several hundred Europeans from the city ( a pioneering feat of aviation in sub-zero temperatures over high mountain ranges ) ; both he and his wife were commended for their ‘ courage and fortitude ’ in the House of Commons on 4 February . |
| 23 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 24 | The Child Poverty Action Group was allowed to challenge the Secretary of State for Social Services over delay in paying social security benefits . |
| 25 | A series of revolts against Chinese rule over several years culminated in the unsuccessful armed uprising of 1959 . |
| 26 | A series of revolts against Chinese rule over several years culminated in an unsuccessful armed uprising in 1959 . |
| 27 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 28 | I have tested literally hundreds of children on conservation tasks over a period of twenty years and have confirmed ( to my own satisfaction at least ) that fundamentally — in terms of the central systems — one does not succeed in drawing their attention to non-salient features . |
| 29 | They would pass into the hands of number of different owners over the years , but Charles Titford was to remain the occupier until his death in 1802 . |
| 30 | There has been a certain degree of controversy in recent years over the practice of self-investment by pension funds . |