Example sentences of "[subord] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | represents the ‘ weak ’ poverty trap , where over a wide range of earned income the effect of explicit taxation plus implicit taxation via the loss of means-tested benefits means that disposable income remains largely unaffected . |
| 2 | is the strong poverty trap , where over a range of earned income disposable income actually falls as earned income rises . |
| 3 | The recent survey of the Knossos area ( Hood and Smyth 1981 ) shows that the occupation area there had , by Late Minoan I , increased over ten times , albeit over a 1,000-year period since the Early Minoan . |
| 4 | Comparisons between the three race groups were between those living in the same small areas i.e. in roughly the same circumstances , rather than over a whole city or London borough . |
| 5 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 6 | It is not surprising , then , that there are many unsatisfactory ways of calculating valence electron excitation energies , but none that give convincing results except over a very narrow group of compounds . |
| 7 | The employers acknowledged that if over a period profits should rise more than incomes , the balance should be redressed by taxation policy . |
| 8 | Better try something else , then ; and here it is , in the shape of the third proposition : ‘ if over a period profits should rise more than incomes , the balance should be redressed by taxation policy ’ . |
| 9 | At present , such guidelines require that options may not be exercised until at least five years from their date of grant and then only if over a five year period following the date of grant the Company has achieved growth in earnings per share which exceeds the growth in the Retail Prices Index by at least ten percentage points . |
| 10 | The purpose of an underlay ( or padding ) is to protect the rug from being squeezed between two hard surfaces , because over a period of time this kind of pressure can damage the fibres . |
| 11 | It did n't worry him , because over a distance the soft-nosed rounds would break up on entry and be considerably more destructive , splattering meat in exactly the same way as a hard point carved into an illegal dum-dum . |
| 12 | Note that the products and are not maximized where and are maximized , because over a range a bigger share of a smaller income will represent a higher total tax revenue than a smaller share of a larger income . |
| 13 | On the face of it , this offer gives you the option of substantially more than £6 million providing over a two year period profits increase . |
| 14 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's an international career coming to a close and one that people have been full of admiration for for over a decade . ’ |
| 16 | The progression and results of this study ( which took a number of years and involved the House of Lords Record Office , the British Library , the Public Record Office and the College of Arms , as well as the Bridport manuscript books and medieval wills and testaments ) have been presented not only to show that reference books can be wrong , but that the wealth of material available to the local historian can be utilized to very positive effect over an extremely narrow range as over a wide one . |
| 17 | As well as over a bath , a shower can be fitted into a purpose-made cubicle ( which sometimes comes with the shower valve already fitted ) , or into a combination of side screens , shower doors and partition walls . |
| 18 | It also said it will market versions of Visualisation Data Explorer software for Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Silicon Graphics Inc workstations as well as for the RS/6000 , and will run stand-alone on the alien workstations as well as over a network accessing the server . |
| 19 | An innkeeper , as we have seen , is under a duty to provide reasonable refreshment if so required and accommodation to a traveller ; hence , the innkeeper has a right of lien over a traveller 's property as well as over a guests ' to ensure that the traveller 's bill is duly paid . |
| 20 | He knows that a profitable deal can just as easily be struck over a caesar salad and glass of mineral water as over a T-bone steak and bottle of vintage claret . |
| 21 | Finally , complementing these results Andreasen demonstrated that the relatives of her chosen authors also showed unusual creative talent , though over a wider sphere than the literary , including art , music , dance , and mathematics . |
| 22 | when over a soiled tablecloth |