Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Totally homogenous capital and labour markets ; constant returns to scale over all ranges of output ; marginal productivity pricing for all factors ; continuously variable relationships between factors over time ; land as an insignificant input . ) |
| 2 | Education provides two major areas for arguments over access to information . |
| 3 | One of the major advantages of letters over telephone conversations is that they provide a permanent record . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Austin Texas-based Alliance Technologies Inc will introduce TextMachine , a set of tools for indexing , storing and accessing large volumes of documents over client/server architectures . |
| 6 | There were several attacks on women over Christmas . |
| 7 | There seem to be quite a few local authorities with difficulties over barrier designs , and certainly we , as cyclists , come across more ‘ bad ’ barriers ( require dismounting ) than good . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the 1970s the Department of Education and Science pinned its hopes on the APU to provide a general measure of the achievement of children at schools and , implicitly , changes in standards over time . |
| 11 | For a fuller understanding of the factors affecting divorce , we have to consider not only changes in rates over time but also differences between social groups in rates of divorce . |
| 12 | The figures in Table 5.1 are from cross-sectional data , obtained in 1980 , and could therefore be misleading as indicators of changes in households over time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Dunoon and Bute tourist authorities were linked until 1976 , when arguments by officials over policy forced a split . |
| 15 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 16 | well it was real value buy buying nine bags of nuts over Christmas was n't it ? |
| 17 | Differences in results over time may be due to errors which must be attached to judgements of mastery , whether test results or teachers ' judgements or both are used in making the judgement . |
| 18 | As some of these private functions of unions have been taken over by welfare state agencies , unions have taken on other roles — especially representing their members in legal or industrial tribunals in claims over redundancy , discrimination , and negligence . |
| 19 | During the preparations for the reorganisation in 1974 no fewer than 127 applications were made to government departments for decisions in disputes over agency ( Richards 1975b:84 ) . |
| 20 | Disney has been plagued by difficulties ranging from rows with contractors over construction costs to grumblings by members of the Disney ‘ cast ’ over employment conditions . |
| 21 | The rest of the conference was humming with the anticipated controversy over sado-masochism , and with the anger of women with disabilities over non-accessibility to the venue and to the discussion papers . |
| 22 | Conservative Peter Jones told yesterday 's meeting of the borough transport committee he had been ‘ inundated ’ by complaints from traders over lack of access . |
| 23 | For example , the Home Office monitors violent crime by looking at numbers and trends in patterns over time and produces annual figures for offences and convictions , but in so doing avoids the problems of definition that bedevil the researcher . |