Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This essential merging of primary rate and basic rate services will be achieved using the ‘ fractional Megastream ’ technology that the company 's Martlesham Laboratory on Martlesham Heath , Suffolk has developed for squeezing multiple ISDN channels over ordinary copper circuits . |
| 2 | While the actual canals , together with their locks , bridges and wharfs , have their own intrinsic interest , far more significant is the fact that they allowed the easy and cheap movement of bulk cargoes over long distances . |
| 3 | Even as he greeted Dalgliesh he was taking off his jacket and was drawing his fine latex gloves over stubby-fingered hands which looked unnaturally white , almost bloodless . |
| 4 | The position regarding administration orders over unregistered companies has not been finally settled by judicial decision . |
| 5 | I remembered how in England I had pitied them all tucked away in oblivion : Feathers , the first man of my course to go missing ; Johnny Soames whose aircraft I had watched skidding away from the formation on one of the early daylight raids over northern France . |
| 6 | Increased personal mobility , principally through growth in private car ownership , has dramatically altered shopping patterns over recent years . |
| 7 | After this time , Nuclear Electric plans to erect huge containment buildings over entire reactor sites , leaving these for another 100 years before demolition . |
| 8 | The Nottingham Pest Control branch have had a spate of vehicle thefts over recent months . |
| 9 | There is no surviving evidence comparable to the parish records of the seventeenth century which shows the rate of change among village inhabitants over short periods , but certainly , as we have seen ( Ch.2 ) , families died out and were replaced by others over the course of the century . |
| 10 | Leapman also cited , as evidence of the crisis Adie faces , the preference of John Birt , the deputy director general of the BBC , for ‘ specialist reporters over old-fashioned ‘ firemen' like Ms Adie ’ . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , quantitative data do provide some guide to changes in the subject balance of first degree courses over recent years . |
| 12 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 13 | They swoop and scream to a halt in a narrow street alive and garish with neon signs over narrow dark doorways . |
| 14 | Safety issues have been paramount throughout modern NGV development — and CNG has several safety advantages over liquid fuels . |
| 15 | The Soviet media linked the concern of the conference delegates over international tension in the ‘ Arab Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula ’ to ostensible American plans to set up a new military alliance in the Red Sea area . |
| 16 | According to UK database analyst Martin Butler , disagreement among the SQL Access Group members over common development goals , and the establishment of labyrinthine committee structure has laden the organisation with bureaucracy . |
| 17 | President Bush laid down his ‘ if it flies , it dies ’ ultimatum last night as Allied fighters prepared for combat missions over southern Iraq . |
| 18 | After making findings of fact which are broadly summarised in the second paragraph of this judgment the board determined , inter alia : ( 1 ) that the fees derived from the sub-licencing were sourced in the countries in which the sub-licensees were by their contracts entitled to exercise the particular rights and ( 2 ) that the 1981 agreement vested in the taxpayer rights over intangible property , which rights could only be exercised outside Hong Kong . |
| 19 | Paul Jenkins , of the National Occupational Hygiene Service charity , has said that ‘ Court cases over passive smoking are on the way . |
| 20 | Parliament voted to change the Constitution in January 1991 to convert the ceremonial office of president into a directly elected post whose holder would enjoy reserve veto powers over financial provision and senior public service appointments [ see p. 37962 ] . |
| 21 | This was the local branch of the 1856-founded Federation of German and Berlin Artists , which won royal recognition in 1867 ; the latter meant royal subsidies for the holding of exhibitions and for magazines , etc. in exchange for kingly veto powers over organizational rule changes and decisions . |
| 22 | This is based on a distinction between price changes over equal periods of calendar time , and over an equal number of information arrivals , termed event time . |
| 23 | Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge , bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs . |
| 24 | A NORTH-EAST solicitor appeared in court yesterday to face deception charges over legal aid . |
| 25 | Subsequently it was suggested ( Hare , 1973 ) that this trend in climatology had been emphasized by three other contributions identified as the micrometeorological method whereby a branch of experimental physics has used experimental techniques to provide physical insights into the nature of the earth 's surface and planetary boundary layers ; the microclimatological method where the techniques of micrometeorological measurement and boundary layer theory together with the related parts of soil physics and plant physiology are applied to exchange and transformation processes over natural surfaces , leading to study of energy transformation at the land surface , water movement upwards and downwards through the soil , and to how carbon dioxide is assimilated during photosynthesis and released during respiration ; and the hydrological method whereby energy exchange during the hydrological cycle was quantified . |
| 26 | It is important to look at ratio trends over extended periods in order to judge the progress of the company . |
| 27 | It is important to look at ratio trends over extended periods in order to judge the progress of the company . |
| 28 | An excess of GP referrals over other referrals of women informally admitted was matched by an excess of female over male GP referrals who were informally admitted . |
| 29 | Information on foreign currency exchange rate movements over past years and dealers opinions on likely movements in the future . |
| 30 | 21CenNet Inc , Richardson , Texas-based developer of key enabling technologies for enhancing portable computer communications , has raised $5m in venture funding from InterWest Partners , Sevin Rosen Funds and Compaq Computer Corp. 21CenNet wants the cash to fund development of its MobileWare technologies , which are being designed to support both wireless and wired end-to-end communications to enable portable computing devices to access company information systems by providing a reliable extension of corporate local area networks over public telephone and wireless networks . |