Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | The transport of sulphates over long distances can lead to reductions in visibility over extensive areas and at locations distant from pollution sources . |
| 32 | The adverse consequences of such loose rein appointment procedures were not lost on one White House aide who served both Nixon and Reagan During the transition the Reagan forces took a number of steps designed to deal with the sort of problems over appointments that Nixon had encountered . |
| 33 | BEHIND the war of words over their respective performances , there is good news for all three ferry operators on the Ulster-Scotland sea-route . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | As the war of words over November the seventh heats up , is changing the names of forty streets and metro stations back to their pre-revolutionary titles , just hours before the tanks rolled through Red Square for the traditional Revolution Day parade . |
| 37 | It is intriguing , however , to find , in the appendix , evidence from Parkes ' study that the group of widows over the age of 65 showed a much smaller increase in sedative consumption after bereavement than those under 65 years old . |
| 38 | This argument starts from a different point on the balance of payments circle , with the excess of imports over exports . |
| 39 | For i = 1 , … , m , we will write for the excess of requirements over stocks held at site i of some commodity . |
| 40 | Dahl focused upon the making of decisions over which there was an observable conflict of opinion and he studied how that conflict was resolved between the different individuals and groups involved . |
| 41 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 42 | In the theoretical sections of this Lecture , we have described how taxation may affect the development of endowments over generations , taking account of the transmission of earning capacity and the inheritance of wealth . |
| 43 | Déby had been Habré 's military commander and the architect of victories over Libyan forces in the 1986-87 war [ see pp. 34914-17 ; 35876-79 ; 36256 ] . |
| 44 | The evidence of hearths over tessellated pavements and trampled black earth accumulated over floors has often been interpreted as ‘ squatter occupation ’ , as if casual wanderers had found temporary refuge in the ruins of the buildings . |
| 45 | The definition of Rights over shares ( see below ) includes irrevocable undertakings ; therefore , such agreements are caught by Rule 5 of the City Code and the SARs . |
| 46 | Because expensive capital equipment and the attainment of a rapid through-put of production were central to this development , ‘ the craft skill and judgement of the workers had to be as much as possible superseded , as did the control of workers over the pace of work ’ ( Lazonick , 1983 , p. 112 ) . |
| 47 | The high seroprevalence of toxoplasma IgG among women born in Ireland compared with British born women may reflect differences in the consumption of undercooked meat or unpasteurised milk or in the use of freezers over the past 30–40 years . |
| 48 | The principal focus of long-wave theories is historical , offering a framework for conceiving the movement of economies over time so that , if they help us understand the modern UK economy , they do so by locating the present in a pattern that covers the past and the future . |
| 49 | Although the thunder and lightning had moved further off the horses were still in a very nervous state when the roar of flames over their heads drove them wild so that they were very difficult to handle . |
| 50 | With characteristic modesty she added : ‘ I felt that the award was a tribute to the teamwork of others over the years . ’ |
| 51 | In the absence of controls over referrals by non-budget holding GPs , the provision that under such contracts ‘ payment would be on a case by case basis , without any prior commitment by either party to the volume of cases which might be so dealt with ’ , would appear very similar to a prospective payment system . |
| 52 | The multitudinous hazards that face their young — the predatory fish , the vagaries of the currents , the absence of islands over vast areas of the surrounding ocean — are met and ultimately defeated by sheer numbers . |
| 53 | The claim that science starts with problems is perfectly compatible with the priority of theories over observation and observation statements . |
| 54 | Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings . |
| 55 | The linking of the national President of Mexico with the workers through clientelist relationships can be seen in the pattern of strikes over the years . |
| 56 | Nonetheless , the pattern of correlations over the ten junctions is extremely similar to that obtained in the previous study , see Figure 5.4 . |
| 57 | It took an act of will to think of cool winds on hilltops or the pattern of water-shadows over wave-carved sand — things which I have always thought epitomise clarity and freshness and helped to divert my brain from dwelling on the contents of my stomach . |
| 58 | As Cumings has pointed out , the importance of this paper is that it foreshadowed with considerable accuracy the sequence of events over the next three years , culminating in the formal establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 . |
| 59 | The two books taken together provide a fascinating portrait of the break-down of conventions over the century between their composition . |
| 60 | She especially distrusted the row of photographs over the fireplace . |