Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] over the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents . |
| 2 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 3 | The more resourceful tend to escape charges through influence over the police , to escape custodial remand through bail , and to escape conviction through employing good lawyers . |
| 4 | In recognition to the part Sue Davies has played in the promotion of photography over the years , she was awarded an OBE in 1988 . |
| 5 | … in every Department a store of knowledge and experience in the subjects handled , something which eventually takes shape as a practical philosophy , or may merit the title of a departmental philosophy … in most cases the departmental philosophy is nothing more startling than the slow accretion and accumulation of experience over the years … |
| 6 | Codes of practice were supposed to protect the customer , by dangling the threat of expulsion and consequent loss of income over the practitioners . |
| 7 | Hobhouse 's evolutionary method was , however , also reminiscent of Comte since he argued that it was the growing domination of mind over the conditions of life that enables us to appreciate the importance of the collective framework of society . |
| 8 | It 's a fair bet that 90 per cent of people would admit to a maelstrom of confusion over the facts behind the tragedy of the country which was once called Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | I have had a lot of pleasure over the years keeping and breeding tropical fish , and cichlids in particular . |
| 10 | Bill Clinton 's defeat of George Bush in the US presidential elections cast an air of uncertainty over the talks . |
| 11 | This argues that the volatility of futures prices will be relatively high during periods when substantial amounts of uncertainty over the levels of demand or supply for the underlying asset are resolved . |
| 12 | Above , a gibbous moon fought a brave but doomed battle to be seen through the scudding cloud , occasionally emerging to spill its light like a bucket of whitewash over the slates . |
| 13 | The issue of sovereignty over the Islands was not discussed [ see also p. 38435 ] . |
| 14 | So extensive became the control of the catholic sector , both primary and secondary , that priests had extensive powers of dismissal over the teachers until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | He dismissed suggestions of disarray over the arrangements to supply £500 million worth of programmes for next year 's schedule . |
| 16 | Table 3.9 shows the size of these categories and , with Table 3.8 and the appendix , the decline of independence over the years . |
| 17 | Deaf education has been associated with a great deal of dogma which has had varying degrees of influence over the years . |
| 18 | Maturity of outlook over the years led it to have a capacity for assuming an independent role , based on its own inherent values . |
| 19 | It is not , however , necessary that the defendant should assert rights of ownership over the goods : taking for the purposes of acquiring a lien or of temporary use have been held to be conversion . |
| 20 | Gloucester thereupon went off to capture Berwick-upon-Tweed and , after thirteen changes of ownership over the centuries , made it once and for all English . |
| 21 | Drop the loop of string over the pins , draw it taut to form a triangle with a pencil point . |
| 22 | But most areas did avoid the rain apart from a few spots of rain over the islands . |
| 23 | With advance in other areas of chemistry over the years , the zeolite based exchange material was able to be replaced by manufactured , synthetic ion exchange resin beads , with a highter capacity for ion exchange , coupled with physical and chemical stability . |
| 24 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
| 25 | In spite of the millions of words they contain , and some noticeable shifts of emphasis over the years , the volumes of the Church Dogmatics are marked by an immense overall coherence and harmony . |
| 26 | ‘ Simon sitting between the twins and Piggy , wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy who grabbed it . |
| 27 | Set two pieces of meat over the nests , a pastry case to the side and a ribbon of sauce around the outside of each plate . |
| 28 | It 's given miners a lot of service over the years and eased a lot of the er distress of the at work . |
| 29 | I used Winsor & Newton 's cadmium orange , cadmium yellow light , cadmium red light , permanent rose and dioxazine purple to lay on a flat basic pattern of colour over the shoes . |
| 30 | Half an hour before Alisdair got up , she moved the porridge to the back of the fire and put a pot of water over the flames , she was roughly on time at the moment so there might not be trouble after all . |