Example sentences of "over [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the public really believe these stories are spilled willingly over friendly cups of tea ? |
| 2 | As Bob Colenutt describes in this volume ( chapter 2 ) , state financed property speculation can be represented as inner city benevolence when the government hands over rich tracts of real estate to an unaccountable Urban Development Corporation in London . |
| 3 | For a public good-the consumption of which is defined over geographic subsets of the total population and for which the costs of providing each level of output of the good in each jurisdiction are the same for the central government or the respective local government — it will always be more efficient or at least as efficient for local government to provide the Pareto-efficient levels of output for their respective jurisdictions than for central government to provide any specified and uniform level of output across all jurisdictions . |
| 4 | It is also worthy of note that East Prussian amber was being traded among hunter-fisher communities over extensive tracts of Finland , the East Baltic countries and north-east Russia as far as Lake Onega and the Upper Volga , as well as up and down the coast of western Norway , at a time when Neolithic farming communities were being established in south Scandinavia . |
| 5 | A detailed helicopter EM survey has been flown over extensive areas of the Middle Dalradian ( MEG 253 ) . |
| 6 | Dense summer acid hazes are now experienced over extensive areas of rural southern Britain , being closely related to the advection of polluted continental air masses ( Barnes and Lee , 1978 ; Lee , 1983a , 1983b , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | In June among the initial measures of Cresson 's government were bills providing for ( i ) hospital reform ( designed to tighten government regulations over private components of the national health system , approved by the National Assembly on its first reading on April 29 , by the Senate on June 7 and finally by the National Assembly on June 19 and prompting protests by 60,000-100,000 people on June 11 ) ; ( ii ) tougher penalties for desecrating graves ( approved on June 14 following the desecration of Jewish graves in Carpentras in May 1990 — see p. 37468 ; for earlier legislation against racism see p. 37683 ) ; and ( iii ) restrictions on telephone tapping ( the latter receiving the approval of the National Assembly on June 13 and of the Senate on June 25 ) . |
| 8 | Where we are going ( 1700 England ) they have only just got over periodic waves of bubonic plague . |
| 9 | One of the most serious incidents concerned the town of Batavia , Illinois , whose 17,000 residents allegedly suffer a cancer risk several hundred times higher than that which the EPA regards as acceptable , due to a reported failure by the agency to take action over high levels of radioactivity in drinking water . |
| 10 | Besides , it is neither easy nor ethical to perch with notebook or video camera over spontaneous scenes of human mating or aggression . |
| 11 | For example , devolution of control over different sections of the rules to different committees may result in inconsistencies of style or approach . |
| 12 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 13 | Perhaps , I can then proceed to manipulate these numbers , and use the findings to put forward more precise proposals as to the level of budget , or the way in which the budget should be deployed — in different media , over different periods of time , etc . |
| 14 | Alcohol and other drugs have direct sedative and stimulant effects on the brain , both acting at the same time but over different periods of time . |
| 15 | Precisely when this occurred can seldom be determined on any estates , because there are few series of complete manorial records , but it is safe to say that by the early fifteenth century the change had taken place widely on both lay and ecclesiastical lands , the latter being better documented over different parts of the country . |
| 16 | The SAC , keen to spread its awards over different parts of the country , and to encourage a wide range of musical initiatives , has also supported commissions from amateur organisations — the Cunninghame Choir , Dalkeith Symphony Orchestra , the Meadows Chamber Orchestra , and the Scottish Chamber Choir . |
| 17 | The word ‘ tea ’ could mean the beverage or a meal varying widely in size and time over different parts of the country and different social classes . |
| 18 | Were not there several dominant ideologies — each ruling over different aspects of life ? |
| 19 | After more than a decade of concern over different aspects of the bail process , steps were taken to reduce the number of defendants remanded in custody by introducing a statutory presumption in favour of bail ( section 4 of the Act ) , and by seeking to structure the decision-making process so that magistrates would give effect to it . |
| 20 | It helps if you have had experience over different types of cross-country jumps — like ditches and water . |
| 21 | Hardly an evening passed without one of the Mendozas gnashing their teeth over old videos of the Open and swearing : Death to the O'Briens . |
| 22 | It is well nigh impossible to compare the rate of crime over extended periods of time ( as Reading 10 , Chapter 5 , taken from Pearson 's study , indicates ) . |
| 23 | Pearson 's study of the history of street crime in Britain clearly illustrates the problem of using criminal statistics as a means for comparing the rate of crime over extended periods of time . |
| 24 | The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource . |
| 25 | The company applies its techniques through workshops or residencies over extended periods of time in hospitals , community centres of special schools . |
| 26 | Some arise from the need to achieve coherence over extended passages of text . |
| 27 | Cakes baked on the gridiron were regarded as a luxury , and sometimes a substitute for tea was made by pouring boiling water over burnt crusts of bread . |
| 28 | Patchy light rain over central parts of England and Wales will move south and peter out by the evening . |
| 29 | A Sports Council source said last night that the confusion may have arisen over separate lists of banned drugs and when they apply . |
| 30 | The original overwhelming mass of stress or anxiety is broken down into smaller , interconnected parts , providing the client with greater understanding of the processes involved , and greater control over individual components of their anxiety . |