Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | After investing £15 million in a variety of different schemes over the previous six years , and just when developments were looking promising , the government 's funding ( channelled through the Energy Technology Support Unit , part of the Harwell-based UK Atomic Energy Authority ) was cut . |
| 2 | The administrative budget was for some RF26,000 million , a reduction in real terms over the previous year , and the investment budget stood at RF14,320,000 , of which some RF5,500 million came from domestic financing and the remainder ( 61 per cent ) from external sources . |
| 3 | On a ridge with fine prospects over Edinburgh , the Pentlands and the Firth of Forth are outcrops and boulders with the stylized incisions of circles , cup shapes and concentric grooves which appear at ritual sites in many countries from Ireland to India , and in especially large numbers in Scotland . |
| 4 | From Aisgill Summit , the railway , the road and the River Eden go hand in hand down Mallerstang , forced into close company by the impending slopes , and almost at once there appears on the right the magnificent spectacle of Hellgill Force where the infant Eden , thus far known as Hell Gill Beck , leaps in a waterfall of 60 feet over a limestone cliff and comes to maturity as the River Eden . |
| 5 | Care , of course , has to be taken not to equate , by necessity , duration with severity , for a child might be just as traumatized by one incident as by a succession of repeated incidents over time . |
| 6 | Although there are dangers in concentrating on a single see , the information provided by Gregory does allow a study of episcopal elections over the best part of a century . |
| 7 | If war was a continuation of legal proceedings over rights by other means , then those legal proceedings were a result of the treaty of 1259 . |
| 8 | According to Vitruvius , a fall of six inches over every 100 feet was considered desirable and often long detours had to be made to avoid a too sudden descent . |
| 9 | The South Coast Air Quality Management District is a body with considerable powers over greater LA . |
| 10 | The current valuation of the collection , made by a team of Spanish experts over the past six years , is considered to be well below the market value of the works . |
| 11 | It also provided for increased powers for the provincial governments , including a veto for all provinces over future constitutional change . |
| 12 | It also provided for increased powers for the provincial governments , including a veto for all provinces over future constitutional change . |
| 13 | The study will combine DTI Company Statistics with London Business School 's London Share Price Data Base to provide details on the top executive pay , company characteristics and share price performance for a sample of large companies over a twenty year period . |
| 14 | The work experiences of a sample of these workers over their first twelve months after redundancy have already been the subject of extensive research under ESRC project F/00/23/2257 . |
| 15 | In addition , it is feared that methods of collecting the community charge by establishing a register of all residents over the age of 18 may result in those who can not afford the tax not completing their electoral registration forms , as this may alert the authorities to their liability for the community charge ( or Poll Tax as it has become known ) . |
| 16 | In June 1990 during a strike of non-graduate teachers over their pay award , the government brought emergency regulations into force . |
| 17 | The memorandum represented a culmination of protracted negotiations over the status of Koreans , many of whom were descended from those who had been transported to Japan during the Pacific War for the purposes of forced labour . |
| 18 | The Messerschmitts were back on 24th. , four of them attacking a flight of patrolling Hurricanes over Imtarfa . |
| 19 | The Admiralty agreed in respect of all such vessels to authorise a flat rate increase of £pound1 a month for all seamen over and above the wages set out in the union 's official wage book for 1913 ; the NSFU agreed to " use its utmost endeavour to furnish men required at such rates " . |
| 20 | Lynda Ramsden 's gelding , who has run up a sequence of four successes over hurdles this jumps season , should be suited by today 's extra two furlongs and meets third-placed Needwood Poppy on 6lb better terms . |
| 21 | There was hardly any sand , just a scattering of blackened stones over baked clay . |
| 22 | There has been a flurry of colourful rumours over the sale of Irises in the past ten days . |
| 23 | The weather was quite warm and sunny and we found some superb over-night sites , often right by a beach with lovely views over bays , islands and headlands . |
| 24 | With a length of 116 metres , a width of 18 metres and a depth of 6.9 metres over the sill , it enabled the larger steamers now frequenting the port to have repairs and maintenance carried out in modern facilities . |
| 25 | The 550 researchers in the present study published a total of 6490 papers over the total period covered . |
| 26 | The 550 researchers in the present study published a total of 6490 papers over the total period covered . |
| 27 | He had a fine time on the subcontinent , taking a total of 175 wickets over the two visits . |
| 28 | Each child had his or her own particular repertoire with a preference for some actions over others , but with time they changed their repertoire . |
| 29 | To what extent this was a natural conservatism and reluctance to use a different method of cutting , or a preference for the clean cut of a knife in skilled hands over the often not so clean cut of earlier designs of secateurs , or a bit of both , I 'm not so sure . |
| 30 | Beyond the hall was a lounge with wide views over the trees on the slope below . |