Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The non-intervention policy with regard to ‘ lame ducks ’ was effectively abandoned with the politically inescapable rescue of Rolls Royce and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders , and the 1972 Industry Bill marked a return to the kind of industrial policy which had been evolving over the 1960s with the formation of NEDC and IRC . |
| 2 | In Japan the accumulation rate peaked at the end of the sixties and the increasing weight of the Japanese capital stock also contributed to the upward trend in the ACC accumulation rate over the 1960s as a whole ( figures 11.2 and 11.3 ) . |
| 3 | Gershuny ( 1978 ) provides a counter-example to Braverman 's law of job degradation for the majority , by showing that over the 1960s in UK manufacturing industry the proportionate decline in skilled manual employment was significantly lower than the proportionate increase in the ‘ administrative and technical ’ section of the workforce . |
| 4 | In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back . |
| 5 | It was asked , since the testator had in a general clause charged a trust relating to all dispositions on whoever should be his heir , to pay whatever legacies he had left or had ordered to be paid or done , whether , when Seia made over the three-quarters of the estate , she should vindicate the gardens in full . |
| 6 | Their extra wide tyres cushion you perfectly over the roughest of roads and each bike has easy-to-use gears . |
| 7 | Cleveland fire service has taken delivery of two all-terrain Pinzgauers vehicles which can climb embankments , drive smoothly over the roughest of ground and keep going in water . |
| 8 | Suitable investment vehicles over the medium to long term include tax exempt special savings accounts , personal equity plans , unit trusts and investment trusts . |
| 9 | In the short term , such equity based investments can of course be volatile , however , over the medium to long term they have consistently provided excellent returns compared with deposit-based savings . |
| 10 | A second reform is to make the school leaving age flexible over the fourteen to sixteen year age band . |
| 11 | Although on several previous occasions Mrs Whitehouse had felt that either the response , or the public face that the Church presented was unsatisfactory — for example over the Honest to God debate — this case , with the vociferous support for Gay News , made her feel particularly vulnerable . |
| 12 | In that , they became a valuable ally of the BEA , enjoying in return an increasing influence over the latter on matters where presentational concessions could smooth the industry 's political path . |
| 13 | Steve pulled the duvet over the two of them and began fiddling with the remote control . |
| 14 | And so , as predicted , two buckets of pigs blood were poured over the two of them and they were received by hysterical laughter . |
| 15 | What , oh just loves it here right over the two of them he 's a stinker , he 's a stinker , he loves to be with the dogs , he loves to be with the dogs , what do you want ? |
| 16 | He presided over the first of a series of discussions on how the Council could further the cause of integration . |
| 17 | Monetarists have , moreover , failed to reconcile rising prices over the 1970s with decreasing demand pressure as registered by rising unemployment [ Graham , 1979 ] . |
| 18 | Early evidence indicates a marked shift over the 1970s to monetised finance in the form of capital leasing by manufacturing industry from financial institutions with a corresponding decline in primary capital markets [ Rybczynski , 1982 ] . |
| 19 | A related analysis concentrates more narrowly on the decline in employment in the manufacturing sector over the 1970s against a background of low growth , inflation and rising unemployment [ Singh , 1977 ] . |
| 20 | She picked over the nearest of the apples , taking out three which had small brown marks . |
| 21 | Two wooden fences , two wire fences , and all lit as day , all covered by the watch-towers standing in each corner of the compound , and over the highest of the wooden fences he could see only the roof of the prison . |
| 22 | Scientist Tom Clarkson said that there was a 50-60 percent loss of ozone over the Antarctic during the southern spring ( from September to November ) . |
| 23 | The discovery of a seasonal ozone ‘ hole ’ over the Antarctic in 1985 gave urgency to this issue , leading to a series of international agreements restricting the emission of ozone-depleting substances . |
| 24 | Ice ages , tropical ages , spiritualized eras , wet , dry , hot , cold , high , low — all these and many other uncharted cycles , our Earth must have undergone , and will undergo , over the millions of years of its existence . |
| 25 | Biological anthropology in the present context considers infants and their care within an evolutionary perspective , arguing that over the millions of years it has taken for humans to evolve , infant-parent contact was likely to have been virtually constant for at least the first year of life . |
| 26 | The reason why the coal is so " clean " is unclear , but may be due in part to the very wet conditions in the region over the millions of years during which the coal was formed . |
| 27 | He was abroad from 11 1 5 to 1120 , always with Eadmer as his constant companion , bitterly upholding , but with ever-diminishing hope of success , his claim to primatial authority over the archbishopric of York . |
| 28 | His noble gesture appeased those churchmen who had been appalled by his early obstinacy over the archbishopric of Bourges . |
| 29 | Puzzle over the second of our two reader games ! |
| 30 | The sign ( ¨ ) over the second of two vowels to show they are pronounced separately , as in nai¨ve . |