Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the roles assigned to the various characters , and the preponderance of officers over seamen , was a matter of literary choice and not of social prejudice . |
| 32 | Second we turn to the war itself : the shock of destruction , the determination to rebuild and the emergence of consensus over central direction . |
| 33 | There is an apparent decrease in the number of polyps affecting each family member , but this may not be a valid observation due to the ages of the three daughters affected and the pattern of recurrence over many years ( 18 years in case 2 ) . |
| 34 | The chart below shows the average percentage increase in the FT-SE 100 Index over 5 years periods ( commencing 1 January ) from 1 January 1979 to 1 January 1992 in comparison to a higher rate Building Society investment and the rate of inflation over the same periods . |
| 35 | Faced now with an AOC budget for 1993 of £24 million — a cumulative increase in charges of nearly twenty per cent per annum — we can see no relationship between this figure and the rate of inflation over the ten year period , or with the numbers of operators ( 21 in 1983 , 246 currently ) or aircraft involved ’ . |
| 36 | There is no doubt that Greenpeace direct actions have changed the face of environmentalism and the meaning of conservation over the past few years . |
| 37 | The commitment to improving the extent of subject match through the control of teacher education , and the exertion of influence over teacher appointments , is therefore clearly substantial . |
| 38 | Success in the Persian wars and the establishment of control over the Thracian mines brought further enrichment to the treasuries . |
| 39 | For a variety of reasons Stalin rejected a ‘ Finnish ’ solution in Eastern Europe in preference to a security formula based on ideological conformity and the maintenance of control over these countries ' internal as well as external policies . |
| 40 | Firstly , the Festival of Britain in 1951 and the Coronation in 1953 had focused the eyes of the world on Britain 's streets , and the number of tourists over here in those years gradually gave rise to concern over the embarrassment caused by prostitution . |
| 41 | Before the whites came , he went on , no one in Australia was landless , since everyone inherited , as his or her private property , a stretch of the Ancestor 's song and the stretch of country over which the song passed . |
| 42 | The feeling is growing that since the occupiers of rural land benefit considerably from tax-payers ' money then tax-payers should have access to , and a degree of control over the use of such land . |
| 43 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 44 | Interactivity in an information system gives the user some influence over access to the information and a degree of control over the outcomes of using the system . |
| 45 | It is a very feminine , ‘ forties ’ style with clever shaping at the front and a panel of lace over the bodice which forms a scalloped V-shaped neckline . |
| 46 | Joe 's behaviour can also be s\described as mildly odd : his fear of returning to prison shows in his encouragement of the local children to play policeman games , telling them he will put bad boys into his private jail , and a sense of contrition over the faulty aircraft parts means he can not bear having anything the house that ought to be thrown away . |
| 47 | Control over monetary policy is political and a lack of control over it is undemocratic . |
| 48 | A critical impulse and a dream of power over nature sprang in part from natural magic — a somewhat disparate constellation of beliefs and practices ( including forms of alchemy and astrology ) rooted in the conviction that there were hidden , natural powers in the cosmos that could be tapped and channeled to human advantage . |
| 49 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 50 | The advice on how to put planning for development into practice can be supported by the experiences shared by the Council and a number of bodies over the last three years . |
| 51 | Polling was essential and scurs or ‘ slugs ’ were strictly ruled out , and a fringe of hair over the forehead was desirable . |
| 52 | For thousands of years , poor drainage and an excess of rainfall over evapo-transpiration has favoured sphagnum peat growth . |
| 53 | Of course this makes sense in the case of insanity , automatism or involuntary movement but the range of factors over which one has no control is obviously wider than such clear instances of total lack of control . |
| 54 | But the degree of frustration over IBM 's continued non-performance may make it too late for such half measures , leaving break-up of IBM into more manageable units the only option . |
| 55 | Huxley 's retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop — or words to that effect — has come to symbolize not merely the conflict between Darwinism and the Bible but the victory of science over religion . |
| 56 | But the process of negotiation over the conflict around Kampuchea will keep the broader notion of neutralisation on the Southeast Asian agenda . |
| 57 | Because the percentage of adults over that age , presumably doing full time A level courses |
| 58 | That would certainly make a welcome change , since the weakness of trade over the last year or so has clearly deepened the recession . |
| 59 | An undergraduate met by chance on the campus walkway might be treated to one of his brilliant , spontaneous tutorials , the kind normally only dreamt about , while a group of colleagues over whose meeting he was to preside gazed at an empty chair . |
| 60 | It is doubtful whether a right of way over other land belonging to the landlord can ever be an appurtenance , strictly so called ( Re Walmsley and Shaw 's Contract [ 1917 ] 1 Ch 93 ) . |