Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As compulsory state education absorbed the higgledy-piggledy assortment of church , charity and board grammar schools which had emerged over the 200 or so years of industrial Britain , the essentially utilitarian character of schooling was never quite extinguished . |
| 2 | French revolutionary experience cast a long shadow over the early and middle nineteenth century , in the aftermath of the 1789 — 93 overthrow of the ancien régime , and the successive coups and counter-coups of 1830 , 1848 — 51 and 1870 — 1 . |
| 3 | Hence , for example , children wet the bed — usually for a very brief period — for a variety of understandable reasons : emotional upset over the strange and terrifying journey , homesickness , fear of their new foster parents — sometimes because a toilet was inaccessible . |
| 4 | On the face of it gross profit rates showed a steady decline over the 1960s and a dramatic fall between 1970 and 1975 from 23 per cent to 13 percent ; if capital consumption is taken into account the fall was from 17 to 4 per cent . |
| 5 | Over the 1960s and 1970s costs of location and general expansion resulted in the growing importance of a belt extending from the South-East along either side of the M4 motorway to Bristol [ Law , 1980 ] . |
| 6 | More generally , there was a growing belief over the 1960s and into the 1970s that Britain 's industrial problems could be overcome through more vigorous entrepreneurship , the supply of which was held to be ‘ market-determined ’ . |
| 7 | The changes that occurred in the City 's international role over the 1960s and '70s are explained and discussed in J. Coakley and L. Harris , The City of Capital ( Oxford , Basil Blackwell ; 1983 ) ; the international role of the City over a longer period is discussed in depth in L. Harris , T. Evans , J. Coakley and M. Croasdale , New Directions in the Financial System ( London , Croom Helm ; 1988 ) . |
| 8 | The RSS ( 1984 ) noted that comprehensive education ( non-selective secondary education introduced over the 1960s and 1970s ) may encourage demand , particularly from female students . |
| 9 | Swathes of jasmine , loose from a prolifically flowering specimen on the edge of the house , occasionally fell over their railing , with their sweet scent , before Mrs Irving , clothed in her gardening gear of wellingtons and apron over the seated and threadbare tweed suit in which she had first enticed them in , came and bound these back . |
| 10 | The flysheet is then draped over the inner and secured to ground . |
| 11 | At this range the flaws that reduced him to humanity , and a fairly limited humanity at that , were plain to be seen : the stubble of coarse reddish beard he had n't bothered to shave , the roughness of his weathered skin over the immaculate but brutal bones , the inlaid indifference of the blue eyes . |
| 12 | I have been lucky to secure European Community funding to attend a conference on the proposed EC Coastal Directive , being run by the European Environmental Bureau in Copenhagen over the 1st and 2nd of May . |
| 13 | And er you sort of pull the shoe over the sole and er then hit , my father would sort of shape a piece of leather around the sole of the shoe and then er he would sort of tacks that went through , the hobbing iron which was iron of cours tacks that went through , the hobbing iron which was iron of course would bend them over inside your shoe , just like a normal cobbler repairs shoe . |
| 14 | Foinavon was the first horse over the twenty-third and found himself in a very long lead . |
| 15 | In three years the newly formed Red Army not only managed to defeat three White armies and detachments of their foreign allies , but helped to impose Soviet control over the Muslim and Far Eastern borderlands , and Soviet dependencies in Tannu-Tuva , Outer Mongolia and Northern Iran . |
| 16 | Full employment ( and the consequent high level of demand ) over the medium and long term was a universal expectation during the years up to the late 1960s . |
| 17 | Mindful of questions such as these , many Third World governments have tried to establish food policies in order to ensure an acceptable level of food security over the medium and long term . |
| 18 | Control of the money supply over the medium and long term |
| 19 | Far from his paratroops , far from their mortars and machine-guns and rocket-launchers , far from their special camaraderie , he worried like a dog with freshly stolen meat over the incessant and aching problems of the camp 's discipline and routine . |
| 20 | And the local authorities also we have government policy again we have the situation that Wage Councils which have agreed increases for our members within the prison service , do n't know whether they 'll be allowed to implement them because they are over the one and a half percent . |
| 21 | There is an almost unanimous chorus , unchanging over the thirty or more years around the turn of the century , about the division of labour that existed in printing houses where women compositors were employed . |
| 22 | Calculated at around four per cent of the loan over the 70 or 80 per cent , the money is used by the lender to take out an insurance policy which covers them if you should default . |
| 23 | He bounded over the thirteenth and fourteenth and set off for the Chair , that huge open ditch which forms the biggest obstacle on the course . |
| 24 | He turned back towards the stands , jumped nimbly over the thirteenth and fourteenth and soared over the Chair with Sebastian V , Royal Stuart and Zongalero keeping him company and Spartan Missile starting to make ground from the rear . |
| 25 | How to tell , how to be the perfect lover , eight over the eight and exploding with tenderness . |
| 26 | There was intense concern over the financial and social costs of absorbing hundreds of thousands of refugees who now flooded in from the East , but West Germany seemed in an excellent position to exploit the likely expansion of trade with Eastern Europe in future . |
| 27 | Editor , — Chris Ham states that ‘ The introduction of contracts has helped to enhance the accountability of providers to purchasers , ’ but from our own research we are aware of some purchasing organisations that have failed to exercise any control over the financial and strategic operations of providers ( presented to the Health Economics Studies Group , York , 1993 ) . |
| 28 | That most glamorous of all the angels of the hearth , who had come in her little pillbox hat to preside over the purest and most gracious of all houses , the White House . |
| 29 | The old studio system which had produced good writers , good directors , good stars , good movies , was breaking up and bits of it were sliding all over the ancient and sacred lots . |
| 30 | As the volume of private building increases over the two or three years following the proposed changes of policy , local authority housing must as soon as possible be restricted to these objects . |