Example sentences of "of [noun] and [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A fascinating and challenging work , by internationally renowned Marxist historian E. J. Hobsbawm , tracing the history of nations and nationalism over the last two centuries and dispelling much of the myth that surrounds modern nationalism . |
| 2 | Thick white clouds raced across the blue sky , casting a perpetual kaleidoscope of light and shade over the earth . |
| 3 | In the main they draw attention to the changes of attitude and behaviour over the years . |
| 4 | Bradwell also claimed that the issue highlighted conflicting rights of parents and school over the moral education of the children . |
| 5 | Many common passerine species must also have increased their downland ranges as a result of the slow advance of scrub and woodland over the remaining grass , and probably the downland avifauna is more varied today than in 1939 despite losing its characteristic and most interesting specialities . |
| 6 | Well anyway getting back to on hardstand number thirteen , it seemed as if he was filling his , it ran out of supplies , so he was filling his supply tank and one of the flight crew of the airplane bumped into him so he spilled this mixture of gasoline and oil over the stove and naturally the tent caught on fire . |
| 7 | Another reason for looking at women 's attitudes to housework comes from surveys of gender differences in the areas of education and employment over the last few decades . |
| 8 | In most other countries those firms employing over 1000 workers have substantially increased their share of output and employment over the past few decades , so why is Japan different ? |
| 9 | In most other countries those firms employing over 1000 workers have substantially increased their share of output and employment over the past few decades , so why is Japan different ? |
| 10 | The period of perestroika under Gorbachev revealed widespread criticism of the lack of control and supervision over the party and government bureaucracies , together with resentment at their ostentatious privileges . |
| 11 | The financial decision is taken , in the light of current market conditions , to issue stock redeemable in equal annual instalments of principal and interest over the ten years following completion of the bridge . |
| 12 | See an interesting collection of Cook memorabilia and the story of Whitby and district over the centuries , including shipbuilding and whaling . |
| 13 | LEA responses to Circular 14/77 were written with sufficient and skilled vagueness that the flaws and weaknesses were not easy to detect ; and a similar picture of diversity and confusion over the curriculum emerged from the HMI secondary survey published in 1979 . |
| 14 | As usual , the parents have the power of life and death over the baby , which all parents have . |
| 15 | Swathes of jasmine , loose from a prolifically flowering specimen on the edge of the house , occasionally fell over their railing , with their sweet scent , before Mrs Irving , clothed in her gardening gear of wellingtons and apron over the seated and threadbare tweed suit in which she had first enticed them in , came and bound these back . |
| 16 | If the cavalry were still , in every sense , the army 's natural leaders , the victories of the Flemish burgher forces and militia over French knights at Courtrai in July 1302 , and that of the mountaineers of Schwyz and Uri over the formidable feudal array of knights and footmen belonging to Leopold of Austria at Morgarten in November 1315 had shown what could be done in conditions and terrain unsuited to the effective use of cavalry . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , BASE is due to announce this week how it intends to spend an extra £4 million awarded by the Office of Science and Technology over the next three years . |
| 18 | Girish Naik , UK marketing manager for business communications with DEC , says that Ericsson 's use of HostBridge illustrates a requirement typical of many large organisations , which are likely to have acquired a mishmash of software and hardware over the years . |
| 19 | Peacock afterwards recalled that the political crisis had not been mentioned during dinner ; instead , he and his sovereign , like two farmers at a cattle sale , had discussed fluctuations in the price of wheat and barley over the past ten years . |
| 20 | A DRC theologian had caused a sensation the previous day by openly confessing to a sense of sin and guilt over the church 's support for apartheid . |