Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Thursday , facing uproar on all sides of the Commons , Mr Major ordered that the mess be sorted out and Downing Street duly declared that there would be extra money for the poor over and above RPI uprating and that it had all been planned before the Budget . |
| 2 | There was barely a chink of light between the 11 over the speed with which the European Community should move towards a semi-federal economic and monetary system . |
| 3 | one pound for every two over the limit , and you 're abated back to this level of allowance . |
| 4 | The competitive pressures we saw in 1992 as a result of the continuing over capacity in our industry will remain . |
| 5 | This helium source is very useful to them , both for its proximity to Calcutta and because most commercial helium comes from petroleum wells and the USA , the major producer , has restricted trade with India following disputes in the 1970s over India 's development of atomic weapons from fissile materials that the USA had supplied for peaceful uses . |
| 6 | At least one American participant in the seemingly interminable East–West talks between 1958 and 1963 was impressed by the influence of the British over American policy despite " their relative unimportance as a military force " . |
| 7 | Data are not very adequate but they suggest that there has been a reduction of inequalities in this area even though the advantages of the non-manual over the manual groups are still substantial today . |
| 8 | The Council of Europe , backed by the OEEC , ran into similar problems in the first half of the 1950s over proposals on the health , postal services and communications sectors . |
| 9 | Alice stretch riffs out on the rack into huge yomping monsters and whip a metallic tapestry of the bizarre over the top . |
| 10 | Alice stretch riffs out on the rack into huge yomping monsters and whip a metallic tapestry of the bizarre over the top . |
| 11 | If the motor is to operate at a higher speed then the induced voltage is larger and the applied voltage must also increase , so that current flows into the winding over the extended speed range . |
| 12 | It became law on May , 29 1970 — creating many new rights for the disabled over a wide field and elevating the subject in Parliament . |
| 13 | The great crusades of the 1880s over child prostitution sometimes answered as much to middle-class anxieties as to gross sexual exploitation . |
| 14 | The better opinion is that the pre-1926 priorities of the legal over the equitable estate , and of the earlier in time over the later , still apply , except in so far as they are abrogated by the provisions of the 1925 legislation . |
| 15 | The Italian city states , and others , were for centuries in conflict in the Mediterranean over sources of , and outlets for , trade . |
| 16 | Charterhouse have won this massive foursomes festival — including 10-man teams of old boys from 64 public schools — three times in the 1980s over the Royal Cinque Ports and Royal St George 's . |
| 17 | Each individual abolitionist demonstrated the victory of the better over the worse side of his or her nature , of ‘ pure power ’ over interest , but some particular individuals elicited especial admiration and reverence . |
| 18 | And it was the necessarily progressive movement of the dialectic that was to ensure the victory of the first over the second , the success of the revolution . |
| 19 | From the gravelled sweep of the entrance to the Old Rectory came Mrs Hadley on a gleaming chestnut horse ; she clattered past the Glovers , the old man , other passers-by with the age-old superiority of the mounted over those on foot . |
| 20 | He may even have considered that to establish the superiority of the Copernican over the Tychonic system would be to reaffirm the superiority of Catholic over Protestant science . |
| 21 | Tolba 's ideas carry echoes of the argument in the 1970s over the New International Economic Order in which the Third World lined up to demand compensation in the form of aid and technology transfers for the ‘ looting ’ of their resources by Western imperialism . |
| 22 | It was claimed that Alar posed a cancer threat to 50 people in a million over a lifetime — well over the legal limit . |
| 23 | England , needing 99 to win , should lost captain Graham Gooch in the fifth over when , as TV showed , Waqar Younis 's throw to Moin Khan , the wicketkeeper , beat the sprinting batsman by 2′ . |
| 24 | The acquisition of such a firm by a larger firm with expansion in mind has the advantage to the latter over the opening up of a new branch office of being able to start with an existing client base . |
| 25 | Not even a token declaration was considered , though the Pakistan captain missed a chance here to save some money on the sickly over rate . |
| 26 | In Roman Catholicism male hierarchy is reinforced by the hierarchy of the celibate over the sexual , making the sexual female the bottom of its ladder of holiness . |
| 27 | So if we calculate the Nernst potential for potassium , the equilibrium potential for potassium in other words , simply by applying the Nernst equation , fifty- nine times the log of the external over the internal potassium concentration , we can calculate a value there of minus eighty-seven millivolts . |
| 28 | President Reagan , like Margaret Thatcher , was a product of the concern in the 1970s over the economy , big spending programmes , social indiscipline , and , for the USA , military decline . |
| 29 | About 850 ‘ restaurants of the heart ’ opened their doors in French cities yesterday to serve free meals to the poor over Christmas and the winter . |
| 30 | Although the dismantling of these restrictions was a United States priority , enshrined in the IMF and GATT agreements , the debacles of the 1940s over premature opening up of trade and payments ( chapter 4 ) dictated a more measured pace for liberalization linked to the export capacity of Europe and Japan . |