Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] britain over " in BNC.

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1 The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment .
2 So while you can talk about the expansion of federal powers and the dominance of the national government in certain areas , it is but nothing compared to the dominance of central government in Britain over , over local government .
3 THE STORY of vertebrate life in Britain over the past 2 million years or so is fascinating .
4 Given the number of prominent cases of judicial error in Britain over the past few years — Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , Stefan Kiszcko , the Tottenham Three and Judith Ward — it is not an abstract question .
5 What is certain , however , is that these structural and geographical changes in the population have , in combination , produced a profound transformation in the population size and composition of most places in Britain over the past two decades .
6 To understand the significance of these most recent changes , it is first necessary to review the main trends in social mobility in Britain over the past fifty years , before considering those developments that have become more marked since the mid-1970s .
7 He also became embroiled in another conflict with Britain over Syria and Lebanon .
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