Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be little doubt about the lack of parental rights over choice of school prior to 1980 . |
| 2 | This enabled investigation of possible changes over time . |
| 3 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |
| 4 | In addition to technological change , shifts in the relative prices of different interventions over time may affect the ranking . |
| 5 | Care , of course , has to be taken not to equate , by necessity , duration with severity , for a child might be just as traumatized by one incident as by a succession of repeated incidents over time . |
| 6 | do bring into play Becker 's notion of ‘ moral entrepreneurship ’ and Gusfield 's ‘ moral indignation ’ to explain why certain social groups were prime movers in the development of moral panics over permissiveness in the 1960s . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , pen-based systems offer a number of distinct advantages over speech or keyboard based systems . |
| 8 | A third dimension that we also need to be aware of is the development of organisational structures over time . |
| 9 | Together with Richard Dunwoody , another friend and neighbour , he welcomed Llewelyn into the brotherhood of National winners over dinner on Saturday night . |
| 10 | Bracknell , UK-based Recital ( which has a US subsidiary in Boston ) , which started off back in 1988 with the aim of helping dBase , FoxBase and Clipper users to migrate to Unix and VAX/VMS platforms , welcomes Xbase , as it removes the possibilities of legal threats over dBase . |
| 11 | Common to these patches is the claim that they deliver either nicotine or ‘ nicotine extract ’ and the promise of great savings over patch products ‘ sold by our competitors . ’ |
| 12 | He prides himself on delivering on the optimum date to balance the welfare of mother and baby , and his percentage of vaginal deliveries over Caesarean is amazingly high — which is great , these days . |
| 13 | There is a range of potential responses : the delimitation may be respected and acted upon , for example through application for mining licences to either A or B according to the terms of the agreement ; other States might tacitly acquiesce in the delimitation ; others might make a formal protest that it conflicts with a legal interest of their own , for example , claims of sovereign rights over part of the same area . |
| 14 | The second part of the programme uses the data to analyse changes in the performance of secondary schools over time , with special attention to the effects of comprehensive reorganisation and of rising youth unemployment . |
| 15 | Dynamics of survival within the NMGC must be related to the role which the organisation has defined and redefined for itself in the light of a changing understanding of marital problems over time and in relation to the work of other agencies . |
| 16 | In the Same way , a large proportion of temporary workers over pension age had taken their temporary jobs " voluntarily " rather than " involuntarily " . |
| 17 | By contrast , the density of silver-grain deposits over airway and alveolar epithelium underlined by dense fibrosis was only slightly higher than the background density . |
| 18 | Local Management of Schools also entails the delegation to schools of various powers over pay and conditions . |
| 19 | These surveys have recorded the adoption of a number of new technologies over time for a consistent set of manufacturing establishments , providing a unique source of data on the history and patterns of technological change in this important sector of industry . |
| 20 | The controversy and litigation to which this gave rise led to the introduction of special controls over caravan sites ( by Part I of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 ) . |
| 21 | We must look to the pattern of judicial decisions over time . |
| 22 | In 40 patients second biopsy specimens were taken during one of the follow up colonoscopies to evaluate the stability of proliferative indices over time . |