Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with a persistent excess of expenditure over income , they may cut student numbers or they may increase income . |
| 2 | In terms of findings , Woodward 's 60 per cent cognate score for American and French Sign Languages represents quite a low degree of similarity over what one would expect from any two unrelated sign languages , and this suggests that ASL and French Sign Language are not very closely related . |
| 3 | Although tax consultancy fee income rose by 3% to £105m , this compares with a total increase of 134% over the previous three years . |
| 4 | And so , i I mean it was to me it was a total waste of time over there ! |
| 5 | While the Americans retained control of the warheads , the British in this instance enjoyed a definite power of veto over their use . |
| 6 | He pointed out that a cubic metre of air over the affected forests had been found to contain 400 mainly unknown but man-made organic compounds . |
| 7 | ‘ Mixed Up ’ is a veritable victory of pride over prejudice . |
| 8 | ‘ Mixed Up ’ is a veritable victory of pride over prejudice . |
| 9 | Frightened off by such high figures , many collectors renounce the attempt to assemble a complete range of bindings over the centuries and , sensibly , turn to more limited fields ; for example , to books stamped with the coats of arms or crests of early owners in gilt or ‘ blind ’ ( without gold or colour ) . |
| 10 | Each judge will submit a completed list of nominations over the next couple of weeks and the eventual winners will be presented with their awards at a special ceremony early in the new year . |
| 11 | The Orbital 's two-phase ( air blast ) direct injection fuelling system , which adds a finely atomised fuel charge to the cylinder only after the exhaust port has been covered , eliminates the economy and emissions problems of old while providing a high degree of control over charge stratification . |
| 12 | This has the advantage of establishing a high degree of control over the target utterance and , if the child is co-operating , it is possible to make a direct comparison between the utterance the child was attempting to produce and what the child actually said . |
| 13 | At one extreme lie true experimental procedures , which demand a high degree of control over possible confounding factors . |
| 14 | In the 1980s , the tendency for political power to be concentrated at the centre has been carried a stage further by a prime minister sufficiently determined and resourceful to achieve a high level of dominance over her cabinet colleagues . |
| 15 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 16 | He subsequently concluded that , in spite of his own intentions , it was still too deeply coloured by the thought of Kierkegaard and Heidegger , that it gave faith a wrong kind of priority over revelation in the arrangement of its material , and that its account of faith was more Existentialist than Christian . |
| 17 | This diffuseness was paralleled by a marked degree of confusion over the appropriate research methods to use in empirical studies . |
| 18 | With the Government facing a fresh possibility of defeat over the controversial social chapter , tensions erupted as loyal heavyweights turned on the rebels during a heated half-hour clash . |
| 19 | There can be little doubt that the orcs entered Middle-earth originally just because the story needed a continual supply of enemies over whom one need feel no compunction- ‘ the infantry of the old war ’ , to use Tolkien 's phrase from ‘ Monsters ’ ( p. 264 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans . |
| 21 | ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said . |
| 22 | An objective is a quantitative statement of improvement over time of some aspect of the follower 's activities . |
| 23 | According to John Rogers , who knew Miller , a serious difference of opinion over the publication of some of the Society 's proceedings caused the break-up and , he says , ‘ the opponents of the publication demanded their papers from Miller , who immediately gave them up , having , however , with his usual foresight , taken a copy of each , otherwise their valuable contents would most likely have been lost to the world . ’ |
| 24 | There has been a vast impoverishment of people over the past decades . |
| 25 | When the haoles took everything , surfing became a gesture of revolt , a symbolic reassertion of power over superior forces . |
| 26 | Thus we require participatory democracy to give the individual a real measure of control over the life and structure of his/her environment . |
| 27 | Yet the tsar replaced Putiatin with Golovnin , appointed a commission which " conducted the most extensive investigation into the idea of a Russian university ever undertaken by the old regime " , took advice even from the liberal Professor Kavelin , and introduced a law which improved the funding of universities , gave professors a large degree of control over university affairs , maintained the principle that universities were open to all classes of the community , and allowed universities to go on dedicating themselves , first and foremost , to the study of the liberal arts . |
| 28 | Even when industries were not state owned there were various other instruments by which government actually exercised a large measure of control over the private sector . |
| 29 | Their agreement was the first based on profit-sharing as well as retention of copyright , which gave him a large measure of control over publication and future working of the copyrights . |
| 30 | In 1891 , when shipbuilding was distressed , Harland was persuaded to introduce a system of cost plus contracts for favoured customers which secured a large volume of business over the next four years . |