Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 33 | You would think he was a gypsy until you looked closer at his blue eyes and the dusting of freckles over his apple-blossom cheeks . |
| 34 | The project will examine the religious activities of women over an area of Northern Greece . |
| 35 | His grand plans for a hero 's welcome disintegrated into a mass of fears over how the High Command would view this night . |
| 36 | The introduction is an essay by Octavio Paz in which he stresses the isolation in which the civilisations of the Americas evolved ( as opposed to Europe with contacts from the East ) and he examines the reactions of Europeans over the years to Mexican art . |
| 37 | Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter . |
| 38 | The 30-nation talks in Geneva failed to bridge the gap between countries such as Germany and the Nordic states , which are seeking a 79 per cent cut in emissions by the end of the decade , and those like the UK and France which want a lower level of cuts over a longer period . |
| 39 | In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few . |
| 40 | Therefore , Piaroa boys are not constrained into learning the aggressive stance of young warriors to fight men of this world ; they do not learn to accept the dominance relationships of groups of men over other groups of men . |
| 41 | Town planning stood to gain accordingly , even if the years between the wars showed no great practical advance in the design , layout and building of towns over what had been achieved before . |
| 42 | You have been fortunate enough to build up a reserve of savings over the years , or you may find yourself in receipt of an inheritance . |
| 43 | Does the Prime Minister accept responsibility for the chaos and confusion at the heart of Governments over the Poll Tax ? |
| 44 | Tax evasion is a similar problem in interpreting the sixteenth-century subsidy rolls , while any deductions based on the military survey , a crude census of males over the age of sixteen , must allow not only for children but also for the balance between men and women in the population as a whole . |
| 45 | Theda had followed in the Gallery of Fashion — which all her young charges had avidly studied — the steady rise of waists over the last three or four years , but never before had she felt quite so outdated . |
| 46 | Spare capacity would be resold to other British Telecom units , which could offer a variety of services over the network . |
| 47 | It can be seen that there is a wide range of statutory and semi-public bodies exercising a variety of controls over development in particular areas of the countryside . |
| 48 | SHAPED BY A VARIETY of influences over the years the magnificence and legacy of Harewood remain unspoilt . |
| 49 | Miss Danziger had heard a variety of interpretations over the many years . … |
| 50 | The next mill downstream has had a variety of names over the years : Russell Mill , Lowes Mill and more recently , Malvern Mill . |
| 51 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 52 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 53 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 54 | Rodrigo strove mightily not to offend his Moorish subjects , especially in Valencia which became his base of operations over the succeeding months . |
| 55 | People also experience radically unequal patterns of earnings over the span of their working lives as employees . |
| 56 | The British Broadcasting Corporation has extended its 30-year relationship with ICL Plc with two new contracts for the provision of services over the next six years : first , ICL 's CFM facilities management subsidiary will run the Beeb 's mainframe bureau operation in Feltham , West London on ICL Series 39 SX mainframes ; second , the BBC is taking advantage of ICL 's Open Hire agreement in its move to a distributed Unix computing environment . |
| 57 | The people over whom governments have authority , the kind of considerations which their instructions pre-empt and the areas of activities over which they have authority are all , to the extent that they are determined by the normal justification thesis , less extensive than the claims made by governments and by the law . |
| 58 | If however support is evenly spread throughout a country or province but is insufficient in any one constituency to reach this threshold , a party may achieve a small but respectable proportion of votes over all constituencies without securing a seat . |
| 59 | Nothing could be further from costume drama or the spreading of cloaks over puddles . |
| 60 | With the introduction of general management , an attempt has been made to address the clinician-management interface directly and to challenge formally , at least in theory , the tight grip of doctors over the NHS as an organisation . |