Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can write your weight in a diary or on a chart or graph and see progress develop in the right direction over time . |
| 2 | Regional split over conflict — Further failure to secure ceasefire |
| 3 | And the principles underlying it , despite short-term political bargaining over boundaries , were relatively simple , too : to have major services , councils had to have populations large enough to sustain an efficient delivery system ; to have strategic planning functions , still larger bodies were needed , to reflect the need to attract technically adequate staff and to interest political leaders of a sufficiently high calibre . |
| 4 | Some 230 starters contested the race which followed an undulating course over chalk , sand and mud from Whitley . |
| 5 | Apart from the odd wrangle over samples , the two opponents have enjoyed a fairly benign standoff , and thankfully avoided a revival of the late-Seventies ' punk vs disco debate . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the ability of a British prime minister to decide the timing of a general election must still be considered a significant political advantage over opponents . |
| 7 | While , so far , economic inequality has been discussed in terms of measured command over market resources , there is a connection to poverty when this command is viewed as inadequate . |
| 8 | Despite her normal command over words , June Braithwaite found it difficult to ask in ways that were likely to obtain for her what she wanted . |
| 9 | But whether the engine in question is a model Newcomen in Glasgow University , or a warp-drive in geostationary orbit over Barnard 's Star Six , the hand on the spanner could hardly be anything but home-grown and very likely , Clyde-built . |
| 10 | It seems likely that his real mission was to find an escape route for the board , so that it could steer clear of the incident and avoid involving the central state in any direct decision over sex education . |
| 11 | The widow of a man who died from asbestosis has begun another court battle with British Rail over compensation . |
| 12 | In ‘ Beyond the Micro : Laxton , The Computer and Social Change Over Time ’ , published in The Local Historian , volume 16 , no. 8 ( 1985 ) , pp. 451–6 , they remark on the contrast between a high turnover of individuals in the village and an underlying stability of households . |
| 13 | Public scepticism over elections |
| 14 | From the time of the re-establishment of Serbian rule over Kosovo in 1878 , the Albanian population of the province was persecuted , and throughout the interwar period their hostility to Serbian rule continued to mount . |
| 15 | get on her high horse over abortion . |
| 16 | The 1840 Treaty , signed between the British Crown and the Maori chiefs , marked the formal establishment of British sovereignty over New Zealand , and was seen by many modern Maoris ( who comprised more than 10 per cent of the current population of 3,200,000 ) as the symbolic beginning of a process whereby their culture and status had been systematically undermined . |
| 17 | These intellectual breakthroughs actually coincided with a new social anxiety over incest throughout Europe . |
| 18 | Case of high anxiety over Harvard 's ‘ kinky shrink ’ |
| 19 | Like a Napoleon or a Montgomery , in fact like any truly great captain , Pétain enhanced his magnetic influence over rank-and-file by frequent surprise visits to the front , presenting medals in person immediately after an attack , enquiring about the wounded . |
| 20 | No relaxing by the pool or light lunch over Football Focus for my lads . |
| 21 | Hence the provision made was in the form of public sector over spill , particularly at Longbenton , but also within Wallsend and Tyne mouth County Borough . |
| 22 | There was not a sharp transition to the next phase because public sector over spill of a ‘ simple housing kind ’ continued into the early 1960s . |
| 23 | He was utterly intransigent on what he defined as essential principles : the hierarchy within Free France , French sovereignty over areas belonging to France in 1939 , and his personal legitimacy . |
| 24 | When , after notable delays , the first Free French representative , Jean Sainteny , arrived in Hanoi from Kunming he had apparently already been informed by his travelling companion , Major Archimedes Patti of the American OSS , that as the Potsdam agreement made no mention of French sovereignty over Vietnam the French therefore had no right to intervene in affairs which were no longer their concern . |
| 25 | This was the product of centuries of historical accidents : indeed until the treaties of Madrid in 1526 and Cambrai in 1529 , which ended for several generations to come any vestiges of French sovereignty over Amiens and the Vermandois , it is hardly possible to speak of a state frontier at all between France and the Low Countries . |
| 26 | We had a long and interesting chat over coffee at a Yonge Street restaurant . |
| 27 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 28 | Sponsors fear public backlash over Mansell |
| 29 | Initial research has shown substantial variation in the mean heights of the British population over time and in cross-section — for example between different social classes and different areas of the country and this variation is described and explained . |
| 30 | Another was for portfolios of firms to be owned not by a pension fund but by a specialist financial or management group : Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts or Hanson , which buy , break up and set strict financial controls for what remains ; Clayton & Dubilier or Forstmann Little , which exert direct supervision over managers ; Berkshire Hathaway , which is a more remote but patient investor . |