Example sentences of "of [det] [noun] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We recorded the address of each person arrested over the six month period — a total of over 5,000 people — and , using maps , we ascertained the enumeration district or ward in which the arrestee lived . |
| 2 | Professional chemists are very suitable for this type of study ; it is possible to classify the types of work carried out , and other aspects of each job held over the career , in a clear and systematic way . |
| 3 | But even after the distribution of millions of tonnes of food aid , and spending $162 million on measures to prevent soil loss , the spectre of another disaster hangs over the countries of the Sahel , Mauretania , Mali , Upper Volta , Niger , Chad and part of the Sudan are all threatened . |
| 4 | Margaret Bonner-Walter , chair of the London-based International Federation of Aromatherapists , agreed that the packaging of some bottles sold over the counter ‘ could benefit from better safety-labelling ’ . |
| 5 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |
| 6 | Each of these assets has over the fullness of time authored its own particular problems and dilemmas . |
| 7 | As the table shows , two-thirds of all newspapers consulted over the fortnight of the Survey were national newspapers ( including The Scotsman and The Glasgow Herald ) , a quarter were local ( all Scottish ) , and the remainder were either overseas newspapers or ‘ other ’ types of newspaper , including trade newspapers . |
| 8 | ‘ If you say that capital punishment is a deterrent , how do you explain that 87 per cent of all murderers convicted over the last 10 years thought there still was capital punishment ? ’ |
| 9 | But she maintains that as a percentage of all children seen over the five months , the numbers in which they first raised the question of possible abuse were little larger than those found in a recent survey by the NSPCC in a dozen areas of England . |