Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | Two-term double modules are used mostly in humanities and social sciences and give longer periods of study for students over broader subject areas . |
| 32 | On the same page appeared a sharp rebuke to Ken Brown , an idiosyncratic professional golfer , who had committed the unforgivable sin of refusing to give interviews to the press or television and making good his escape from a crowd of journalists by vaulting over a barrier . |
| 33 | The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year . |
| 34 | He added traders would be questioned on the effects of pedestrianisation on business over coming months . |
| 35 | Drape the triangle of fabric in folds over the curtains and pole . |
| 36 | In terms of regional structural controls most of the auriferous deposits in the project area are spatially related to first-order faults and shear zones within the belt and along its margins ; to major anticlinal fold axial traces and limb shears ; or to the fracture envelopes around the major granitoid intrusions Follow-up geochemical field testing of soils for arsenic over selected targets outside the known gold mining districts was 60–70% successful in demonstrating that certain predicted structural settings would be mineralised . |
| 37 | UN in battle of wills with Serbs over relief convoys |
| 38 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 39 | Take a typical staircase in your home ( 3–35° ) , tilt it to match the angle of the sides of Egypt 's Great Pyramids at Giza ( 52° ) , remove some of the steps , and shovel ice and a couple of feet of snow over the whole affair . |
| 40 | ‘ Chuck a couple of buckets of water over him , we might be able to recognise what it is , ’ Yanto suggested . |
| 41 | During the ownership of the Pachta family of Rajov , the stucco busts of Maria Theresa and Franz of Lorraine in medallions over the first-floor windows were added . |
| 42 | Imported raw cotton was the basis for the emergence of the most dynamic of the " new " manufactures , but as late as 1776 Adam Smith omitted cotton goods from his argument for a sustained expansion and downward spread of consumption of non-essentials over the " course of the present century " , and still found examples enough for his purpose . |
| 43 | During March there were violent protests in a number of areas throughout England over the introduction of the community charge or poll tax , which was to take effect from the beginning of the following month in both England and Wales under the terms of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 [ see p. 36501 ] . |
| 44 | Pat Keen has spearheaded the growth of Medau in CORNWALL over the past few years as well as organising our display at the Cornwellian Exhibition . |
| 45 | One consequence of this has been a distrust of geometric intuition and the downgrading of geometry by educationalists over the past 50 years or so . |
| 46 | Darlington Borough Council spent six months preparing the brochure which Coun David Lyonette , development and planning applications subcommittee chairman , hopes will increase the number of visitors by 25pc over the next 18 months . |
| 47 | Indeed there are even differences of opinion among environmentalists over how this increasing demand upon the countryside is to be accommodated . |
| 48 | But consumption does not directly create capital assets whether financed internally or externally , and investment levels in most countries have not risen significantly as a proportion of GDP in Africa over the last twenty years , and reMain 6 or 7 per cent lower than in both the rest of the developing world and in the industrialized world . |
| 49 | Vice-President Augustus Aikhomu on July 17 ruled out the possibility of war with Cameroon over the two neighbours ' long-running border dispute . |
| 50 | THERE is a good deal of embarrassment in Paris over l'affaire de la Musee Jacquemart-Andre . |
| 51 | For the measurement of changes of performance over time items were to be analysed using the Rasch model . |
| 52 | The pattern of changes in status over the three years since redundancy was broadly similar for those aged 55–59 , 40–54 , and under 40 at the time of redundancy . |
| 53 | The figures in Table 5.1 are from cross-sectional data , obtained in 1980 , and could therefore be misleading as indicators of changes in households over time . |
| 54 | However , the ‘ special relationship ’ that marked the Reagan and Bush years has gone and there is plenty of scope for disagreement over a packed agenda . |
| 55 | But though there is plenty of scope for debate over the details , such as whether God should appear in the preamble , there is consensus on many bigger points . |
| 56 | The obtaining of access and maintenance of rights of way over Pennine moorlands , particularly in the Peak District , was fundamental to their activities . |
| 57 | The Sun at odds with Saturn in Aquarius on the 8th should give you fair warning of conflict with others over home , family or professional matters . |
| 58 | Accordingly , the major contribution of economics to policy over this period has been in providing some short-term corrections to economic activity whilst being able to do little to alter the long-term trend . |
| 59 | It superseded the very successful Coalville open days which have raised thousands of pounds for charity over the last nine years . |
| 60 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |