Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is interesting to note a shortening of the working distances at the Clyde end of the rampart : the menace from attackers over the Kilpatrick Hills was such that working parties had to keep protectively closer together . |
| 32 | However , despite Laud 's personal antipathy towards the papacy , the 1630s did see a growth in the influence of Catholicism over the English government and an improvement in relations between Charles 's court and the papal curia , and for the large numbers of English Protestants who were unable to distinguish between Arminianism and popery and who regarded Laud as little more than an agent of Rome , there could be no doubt that the archbishop was to blame . |
| 33 | There never have been any economic or social targets , but given the attitude of government over the first seven years of the LDDC this is hardly surprising . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Data from the 1931 to 1961 Censuses and from the Ministry of Social Security for 1966 showed a continuous decline in the percentage of men over the age of 65 in full-time paid employment ( Table 2.1 ) . |
| 36 | Its main aims were to slow inflation and the fall in production over the next four months , and to maximise industrial potential by offering selective support to viable industries . |
| 37 | The danger of contamination through the use of shared bar soap , the need for improved skin care , when washing is frequent , and the requirement for control over the bacterial skin flora has led to the development of a range of more sophisticated products . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | In October of that year , Hickson and Jacques joined forces and met the Director of Education over the possibility of a combined approach to the development of adult education which would reflect the recommendations of Circular 1444 . |
| 40 | Success in the Persian wars and the establishment of control over the Thracian mines brought further enrichment to the treasuries . |
| 41 | They range in size from microscopic flatworms to the giant squid and by the process of evolution over the past hundreds of millions of years , have adapted an amazing variety of different ways of perpetuating their own kind . |
| 42 | But the process of negotiation over the conflict around Kampuchea will keep the broader notion of neutralisation on the Southeast Asian agenda . |
| 43 | In the UK the process of privatization over the past nine years has moved utilities from public to private ownership , again under a regime of regulation ( Vickers and Yarrow , 1988 ) . |
| 44 | We are , therefore , solely concerned with nine papal letters contaminated to a greater or lesser extent , predominantly with a view to providing explicit papal authority for the primacy of Canterbury over the whole area of Britain . |
| 45 | Post-innovation performance of UK firms : an analysis of the distribution of benefits over the innovation cycle |
| 46 | Fish , which in the cold European waters are sluggish and easily caught , often provide the staple for mink over the winter . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | ‘ The convulsion of war has opened our eyes to many strange things ’ , he wrote in 1919 , ‘ Few of us had realised till war had exposed it how thin is the veneer of civilisation over the underlying animal proclivities … the failure of religion to direct , and education to balance , the actions of men . ’ |
| 49 | It is rather connected with the sort of conversation over the bar the other night . |
| 50 | THE war of words over the £4.5m repair bill for a crumbling leisure centre is set to end in court action in the next few weeks . |
| 51 | THE WAR of words over the John Birt affair intensified yesterday when the former managing director of the BBC , Bill Cotton , criticised six senior journalists within the corporation for writing to the Times backing Mr Birt . |
| 52 | It swung open at his touch but closing it , as always , was more difficult and he lugged and half lifted it into place and slipped the circle of wire over the gatepost with a familiar sensation of having turned his back on the workaday world and entered country which , no matter how frequent his visits , would always be alien territory . |
| 53 | A third set of dilemmas revolves around the question of how greater consumer choice can be reconciled with the need for controls over the total growth of services to prevent an expenditure explosion . |
| 54 | The second most important power which came with the ownership of the Golden Share was the right of veto over the hiring and firing of the editor . |
| 55 | Where an innkeeper exercises the right of lien over the property of a guest , the innkeeper owes to the guest whose property the innkeeper is retaining a duty to take reasonable care of the property in question . |
| 56 | So far as Canterbury was concerned , the right of primacy over the whole of the British Isles was the greatest of all such gifts . |
| 57 | He stated that the British were not persuaded by the move for major changes in the institutional balance within the Community and ruled out the proposals for giving the European Parliament the right of co-decision over the Council of Ministers on legislative matters . |
| 58 | the introduction of new semi-automatic machines … the increasing use of unskilled and semi-skilled labour in trades hitherto the exclusive preserve of the skilled man … the adaptation of a rudimentary system of standardised and interchangeable parts … the predominance of factory over the workshop as the unit of production … the introduction of aspects of Taylorism , particularly the premium-bonus system ’ . |
| 59 | Mr Lamont tried to blame the crisis on uncertainty over the outcome of the French referendum and the ‘ extraordinary flow of speculative funds in the German mark . ’ |
| 60 | The record of capitalism over the past 200 years in transforming the standard of living of the Western world is remarkable . |