Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the approach used has considerable advantage in principle over the cruder system used for educational deprivation , since there is an attempt to relate expenditure needs directly to deprivation indicators , rather than adoption of an ad hoc procedure with little justification other than expediency . |
| 2 | WINSOCK API FIRMS UP TCP/IP OVER WINDOWS NT APPLICATION EFFORTS |
| 3 | They saw similarities with the Malaysian Bumiputra system by which ethnic Malays received preferential treatment in business over their Chinese compatriots . |
| 4 | Austin Texas-based Alliance Technologies Inc will introduce TextMachine , a set of tools for indexing , storing and accessing large volumes of documents over client/server architectures . |
| 5 | Massimo Aimetti has seen fundamental changes at Iveco over the past decade . |
| 6 | Amid growing public debate in France over the question of what to do with the country 's nuclear waste , a parliamentary report has called for major changes in the state nuclear waste agency , ANDRA ( Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs ) . |
| 7 | It is through the implementation of this agreed machinery that disciplinary tribunals and the Inns themselves , with the consent of the Lord Chief Justice , are now able to exercise extended powers of control over the professional conduct of barristers , with a wider range of penalties , but subject always , in the case of decisions by tribunals , to a right of appeal to the visitors : see Disciplinary Tribunal Regulations 1990 , regulations 22 and 30 . |
| 8 | This is a large élite as élites go , conscious of its privileges and its place , and possessing real instruments of power over those who would challenge it . |
| 9 | " Our objective is to test the law on the system of consents , by which companies are allowed to discharge limited amounts of pollutants over the course of a year " , explained a Greenpeace spokeswoman , Debbie Adams . |
| 10 | Deaf education has been associated with a great deal of dogma which has had varying degrees of influence over the years . |
| 11 | The Bristol-based Frenchay Healthcare Trust , said the 89 job losses were needed to help cut spending by £2.3m over the next year . |
| 12 | TML , a 10-member Anglo-French consortium , has had endless disputes with Eurotunnel over costs . |
| 13 | The company has agreed to keep the average rise in domestic telephone charges to four percentage points below inflation , and to lower international rates by 12% over the next three years , starting with an 8% cut in the first year . |
| 14 | They may provide considerable scope for disputes over meaning . |
| 15 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 16 | Personality factors also enter into the equation ; some assessors being known in advance to favour certain lines of enquiry over others , or simply to dislike or to mistrust other individual researchers . |
| 17 | Furthermore , in order to balance out his marriage alliance with the Calvinist Palatinate , he alarmed and antagonized many of his subjects by conducting protracted negotiations with Madrid over the possibility of a marriage between his son , Charles , and the Spanish Infanta . |
| 18 | Unless working-class children are given linguistic means of control over the disciplines of the curriculum , and situations in the outside world , they are unlikely to stand much chance of being upwardly mobile . |
| 19 | He was plastering wet threads of hair over a balding pate , and there was a look of alarm in those magnified eyes . |
| 20 | CAR firms including Ford , Vauxhall and Peugeot are having urgent talks with insurers over the soaring cost of premiums on many of their high performance models . |
| 21 | Traditionally , ostertagiasis has been prevented by routinely treating young cattle with anthelmintics over the period when pasture larval levels are increasing . |
| 22 | OUTRAGE : U2 's stars donned anti-radiation suits in protest over Sellafield |
| 23 | More than £4m has been spent on reclaiming derelict land in Darlington over the last ten years . |
| 24 | Then again , his paternalistic leadership style , his willingness to bring ex-Nazis into office , his pro-Westernism and his fostering of materialism were to invite widespread criticism in Germany over the following years . |
| 25 | Prison officers and civil servants have been taking industrial action in protest over what they claim is a move towards privatisation . |
| 26 | ‘ Our aim is to raise low wages in Britain over time so that the lowest-paid worker will receive an hourly rate not less than two-thirds of that received by the male median full-time worker . ’ |
| 27 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 28 | The transfer project , conducted between 1953 and 1955 , was designed to establish settlements on the barren islands in order to assist Canadian claims to sovereignty over the region . |
| 29 | Restorative proctocolectony with end to end pouch-anal anastomosis in patients over the age of fifty |
| 30 | The coupling capacitors are chosen to be of sufficiently large capacitance to present negligible reactance to signals over the operating bandwidth ( frequency range ) of the amplifier . |