Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | The survival of the Honours of Scotland over the centuries has depended on many loyal Scots , some known but just as many unknown . |
| 32 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 33 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 34 | Because of the migration of mackerel over the notional dividing line between eastern and western zones , British fishermen had been faced with dwindling numbers of a healthy species . |
| 35 | This also vindicates the Kelsenian thesis of the primacy of the principle of delegation over the principle of subsumption . |
| 36 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
| 37 | Law consulted Lansdowne on all matters of importance , kept him informed of the progress of negotiations over Ulster , but found him difficult to convince of the merits of compromise . |
| 38 | In accordance with certain theoretical considerations and after some empirical experimentation , Barro obtained the following fairly complex equation as his best estimate of the process determining the annual rate of growth of the quantity of money over the period 1941–73 : where is the rate of growth of the quantity of money predicted by the process shown in equation ( 6.7 ) to occur in period t , and is the actual rate of growth of the quantity of money in period t - i . |
| 39 | Hand studied 65 theses on entomology produced within the colleges of the University of London over a five year period . |
| 40 | The increased powers of the Secretary of State over a centrally directed system of curriculum and assessment and , indeed , over teachers ' conditions of service , make it ‘ safe ’ for the government to increase the managerial responsibilities of schools . |
| 41 | The excess of the cost of acquisition over the net assets attributed , so far as not previously written off , is written off to reserves . |
| 42 | Measured against ‘ a stagnant US economy , a not altogether successful satellite programme , and perennial crises in NATO ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 179 ) , these developments created high expectations expressed at the November 1960 Conference of Eighty-One parties in the definitive formulation that ’ the superiority of the forces of socialism over those of imperialism … is becoming ever more marked in the world arena' ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 181 ) . |
| 43 | The idea of the continuity of sites over the generations is easier to accept for , if markers of some sort had been laid down , they might well have survived , even if their form had changed over time . |
| 44 | The early Church used it as a call to faithfulness and obedience in the interim before the Second Coming of Jesus and the establishing of the kingdom of Heaven over all the earth . |
| 45 | The line numbers given here give a better sense of the preponderance of dialogue over narrative in the Shipman 's Tale , a ratio of about 2:1 . |
| 46 | Using the work of social anthropologists and social psychologists to get closer to an understanding of the unique parts of Japanese culture , great play has been made of the primacy of group over individual interests . |
| 47 | Thus during a visit to Moscow by the Malaysian Prime Minister , Datuk Hussein Onn , in September 1979 Kosygin expressed support for the ZOPFAN resolution since its implementation ‘ would establish a precondition for the widening of the process of détente over all the Asian continent ’ . |
| 48 | Alternatively , for those who regard this definition as too restrictive — particularly in its implicit overtones of stability , regularity and mutual accommodation between the parties — the central core of the subject is the ‘ study of the process of control over work relations ’ ( Hyman , 1975 , p. 12 ) . |
| 49 | Decayed environments invite bulldozers and wholesale demolition — antithesis of the process of replacement over generations that gives so many townscapes in Britain their appeal . |
| 50 | The ending of the monopoly of solicitors over house sales conveyancing and of opticians over the sale of spectacles has already been noted . |
| 51 | Apart from its convenience as a legitimation of the rule of white over coloured , rich over poor , it is perhaps best explained as a mechanism by means of which a fundamentally inegalitarian society based upon a fundamentally egalitarian ideology rationalised its inequalities , and attempted to justify and defend those privileges which the democracy implicit in its institutions must inevitably challenge . |
| 52 | For however inaccurate the figures are , their inaccuracies can not have increased sufficiently to explain the sharply deteriorating trend of the balance of payments over the last few years . |
| 53 | Post-innovation performance of UK firms : an analysis of the distribution of benefits over the innovation cycle |
| 54 | The results of this process can be read in detail in catalogues raisonnés , which often give a blow-by-blow account of the arguments of scholars over the years . |
| 55 | As part of understanding any family system the organisation of the pattern of behaviour over time is very important ( Gorell Barnes , 1984 , p. 7 ) . |
| 56 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |
| 57 | Now er I have to warn him there are that sort of conduct has been indulged in to the detriment of the people of Highfields over a significant period by the Labour party . |
| 58 | Given the pervasive influence of the Bank of England over the UK financial system , it is no surprise that later chapters also contain a great deal of further information on its business . |
| 59 | It is in this prayerful meditation that mystics say that they receive an illumination of the reality of God over and above anything they can reach by their own efforts . |
| 60 | And in the Jar din Massey there is a museum tracing the history of the regiment of Hussars over the five centuries since its first formation in Hungary . |