Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Frightened off by such high figures , many collectors renounce the attempt to assemble a complete range of bindings over the centuries and , sensibly , turn to more limited fields ; for example , to books stamped with the coats of arms or crests of early owners in gilt or ‘ blind ’ ( without gold or colour ) . |
| 32 | It was intended as a device to enable states with major accumulations of crude oil to exercise the fullest possible degree of control over the industry concerned with its extraction . |
| 33 | Secondary double glazed window with views over the golf course . |
| 34 | The software configuration must therefore include an additional level of operation over the current systems . |
| 35 | One distinct advantage of metformin over the sulphonylureas in obese Type 2 patients is that it does tend to suppress appetite and certainly therapy is usually associated with weight loss ( Taylor et al , 1982 ) . |
| 36 | There has been a vast impoverishment of people over the past decades . |
| 37 | The most crucial change in emphasis over the past twenty years , and particularly over the past ten , has been the common rejection of any suggestion that poverty alone warranted social policy intervention based on state amelioration . |
| 38 | Thus we require participatory democracy to give the individual a real measure of control over the life and structure of his/her environment . |
| 39 | Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure . |
| 40 | ‘ Laura … ! ’ he groaned , a deep , compulsive inner hunger shaking his tall figure as her hands trailed gently downwards , following the dark arrow of hair over the taut muscles of his stomach , which clenched violently at her soft touch . |
| 41 | As a result , there was serious unrest in Poland over the summer and in Hungary Imre Nagy took steps to create a multi-party state and withdraw from the Warsaw Fact . |
| 42 | According to John Rogers , who knew Miller , a serious difference of opinion over the publication of some of the Society 's proceedings caused the break-up and , he says , ‘ the opponents of the publication demanded their papers from Miller , who immediately gave them up , having , however , with his usual foresight , taken a copy of each , otherwise their valuable contents would most likely have been lost to the world . ’ |
| 43 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown : |
| 44 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 45 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 46 | If the individual has a long position , his actual rate of return over the one-year holding period ( rh ) ( assuming T= I ) is . |
| 47 | Midland 's Seven Days ' Notice Deposit Account offers a competitive rate of interest , regular statements and access to cleared funds , while the Fixed Term Deposit Account is aimed at customers requiring an investment for a specific period , with a higher and guaranteed fixed rate of interest over the stated term . |
| 48 | The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment . |
| 49 | Economic growth , at an annual average of 4% over the past five years , is not bad in the circumstances , though not as spectacular as the South-East Asian growth rates that Sri Lanka aspires to emulate . |
| 50 | In the preceding arguments I have deliberately used the term ‘ enterprise democracy ’ to refer to democratic control by workers over the enterprises which employ them , within the context of the socialist project . |
| 51 | PRESIDENT Yeltsin consolidated his authority yesterday by persuading Russia 's highest parliament to shelve an attempt to trim his powers and by defusing a dangerous row with Ukraine over the Black Sea Fleet . |
| 52 | Maire Carroll , serving in the shop and hating it , felt a firm and vicious sense of satisfaction over the fate of Eve and Benny , but of course she pretended great care and concern . |
| 53 | the average number of customers over the week ( add each day 's total customers together , then divide that total by the number of days in the working week ) . |
| 54 | But both could be ( confusingly ) described as average number of competitors over the same region as the intended word . |
| 55 | ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans . |
| 56 | ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said . |
| 57 | This became clear after parents began to ring Machester 's Picadilly Radio in protest over the song 's condemnation of their local school system . |
| 58 | In the first place , it involves some actual power of control over the thing possessed . |
| 59 | Because the poles will heat more than the equator , there will be a tremendous imbalance in energy over the next few decades , which seems bound to produce enormously turbulent and changeable weather , including gales , floods , and late frosts . |
| 60 | The number of properties repossessed rose by 74% over the 1990 figure to 75,540 in 1991 . |