Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument was to be repeated in succeeding years during discussions over reform of the international monetary system , in which the United States consistently held that balance of payments targets should be defined in terms of current and capital account combined . |
| 2 | They may provide considerable scope for disputes over meaning . |
| 3 | Primarily used for transmitting data between computers over telephone lines . |
| 4 | Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy . |
| 5 | What about concerns over safety ? |
| 6 | Indictment of congressman — Issuing of subpoenas over Post Office scandal |
| 7 | The ending of the monopoly of solicitors over house sales conveyancing and of opticians over the sale of spectacles has already been noted . |
| 8 | The division between incomers and Shetlanders in Dunrossness seems to have been an immediate product of conflicts over land and housing , a consequence of some residential patterns in the area , an outcome of changes in the accepted rules in the ‘ status game ’ and , perhaps , an inevitable result of policy predictions . |
| 9 | A new political force emerged in late 1990 as a result of disagreements over policy and coalition alliances in Sicily . |
| 10 | But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT . |
| 11 | If , as seemed likely , one cause of unemployment was an excess of savings over investment , the equalisation of decisions to save and decisions to invest could be brought about by Labour 's plans for progressive taxation which would redistribute income to the poorer sections of society . |
| 12 | The stress on mineral extraction has left the settlers ( now almost 10 million as was estimated early in 1982 ) in effect abandoned , and their fate is reported in terms of disputes over land , the sowing of their land with weed seeds from the air and even the poisoning of their drinking water . |
| 13 | A growing number of disputes over building contracts has inevitably led to more cases coming before the courts or arbitrators . |
| 14 | This was partly to save money ( since an ambassador had to live in a style and with an expense which was not expected of lesser mortals ) and partly to minimise the risk of quarrels over precedence . |
| 15 | We require to clarify any inherent pattern that might be present in the variation of imports over time . |
| 16 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
| 17 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 18 | This refers to the conditions which work to maintain the cohesion of classes over time , from one generation to the next . |
| 19 | This will have a wide range of powers over health , education and housing and over significant aspects of industrial and economic policy ’ . |
| 20 | To say anything sensible about ( d ) and ( c ) , substantial long-term studies of changes over time as well as in different places are called for . |
| 21 | In the chapter on evolution , Stuart rightly stresses the importance of a good stratigraphic and geographic record for studies of changes over time between species . |
| 22 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 23 | Standard techniques may be used to make broad comparisons between groups of individuals but the statistical analysis of changes over time and interrelationships between events , topics often of special interest to the psychologist , is much less well understood . |
| 24 | We hope it does not interfere with the enjoyment of viewers over Christmas Day . ’ |
| 25 | NT SHOWS UP ON MULTI-PROCESSORS , DESPITE PROBLEMS OVER HARDWARE DIFFERENCES |
| 26 | The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay . |
| 27 | In recent months , after the computerisation of employment records , the service has been the focus of a wide range of stoppages over staffing . |
| 28 | In oral as well as in literate culture , it would appear that there are techniques whereby the directness and immediacy of everyday experience are contrasted with the holding of traditions over time , and with the ‘ fixing ’ and ratifying of definitions and meanings . |
| 29 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 30 | The claim that science starts with problems is perfectly compatible with the priority of theories over observation and observation statements . |