Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.

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31 Although DLOs have survived , Stoker ( 1988 , p. 186 ) notes that there was a 22.5 per cent fall in numbers employed between 1980 and 1985 and a 17.7 per cent fall in value of output over the same period .
32 NOW UNIX SYSTEM LABS TURNS THE HEAT ON UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA OVER BERKELEY CODE
33 Well it was understood that Bisses got most of theirs from restaurants , and all restaurants I think had to sort of hand over all their waste for the war or something .
34 It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period .
35 A joint commission of representatives of Croatia , the RSK , the EC and UNPROFOR set up in June suspended its negotiations on Nov. 9 due to lack of progress over demilitarization and other issues .
36 The deployment of troops had been welcomed by the ANC leadership , on the grounds that local people had lost faith in the police , but the ANC nonetheless criticized the government for lack of consultation over the deployment .
37 You have to look at quality of earnings over the next decade , not over the next year .
38 He used the event to test modifications to his Peugeot 205 GTi , carried out by Autotech of Thirsk over the winter season .
39 That knowledge , handed down by word of mouth over generations is invaluable .
40 The Golden Lion is said to have had a gallery but nothing now remains , though it has been referred to by word of mouth over many years .
41 Stories simply handed down by word of mouth over that length of time are likely to be less accurate than those written down from the beginning .
42 Although only eight of the 23 British Columbia players who went to the World Cup were on hand for the two games it was enough to see the host province safely through to championship no.23 by virtue of wins over Alberta — and that was a close call indeed — and NEWFOUNDLAND .
43 The new permissive society differs from its Victorian predecessor not only by virtue of its sexual and moral freedom , but also because it is characterised by lack of agreement over questions of morality , and over the role of the state in the enforcement of morals .
44 However , in Strange ( SW ) Ltd v Mann [ 1965 ] 1 All ER 1069 Stamp J said that it was against public policy to allow an employer to exercise control by way of contract over an employee 's skill and knowledge .
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