Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Therefore , Piaroa boys are not constrained into learning the aggressive stance of young warriors to fight men of this world ; they do not learn to accept the dominance relationships of groups of men over other groups of men . |
| 3 | If one simply looks at the level of unemployment amongst architects over time , it is difficult to identify a clear pattern linked to any of the regulatory reforms . |
| 4 | There followed two hours of arguments between protestors over what they should accept as sufficient for leaving . |
| 5 | Two-term double modules are used mostly in humanities and social sciences and give longer periods of study for students over broader subject areas . |
| 6 | In the chapter on evolution , Stuart rightly stresses the importance of a good stratigraphic and geographic record for studies of changes over time between species . |
| 7 | A current travelling retrospective which opened in her home town gallery and was organised by the gallery 's chief curator , Michael Aupling , includes 80 works on paper and canvas , documenting the artist 's process from sketch to oils over the past 18 years ( 1974–1992 ) . |
| 8 | The Beacon Nursery , a local Mencap project , offered care five days per week to children over one year of age categorised as having severe learning difficulties . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It came about through changes of agreement amongst speakers over the course of time involving greater and greater consensus on open /α : / as the appropriate realization , and it is not fully explainable in purely linguistic terms . |
| 11 | Technological innovation is the source of many manufacturing processes which produce harmful pollutants , of products which cause great harm in themselves and of processes which permit immense powers of control by governments over individuals . |
| 12 | The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) . |
| 13 | Changes in usage of terms over time can also present problems . |
| 14 | Jamie 's father is helping to organise a protest group , which may yet take Thames Water to court for damages over the cryptosporidia contamination . |
| 15 | We have the feeling of participation in events over which , for the most part , we have in fact very little , if any , control . |
| 16 | Amongst the major achievements of the century in group theory one must mention the modular representation theory of groups by matrices over finite fields as pioneered by Richard Brauer and the subsequent use of this theory in investigations into finite simple groups ( Section 6.6 ) . |
| 17 | The rest of the conference was humming with the anticipated controversy over sado-masochism , and with the anger of women with disabilities over non-accessibility to the venue and to the discussion papers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Another argument in favour of fees over commission is that there will be more incentive for stockbrokers to take a real interest in their clients ' portfolios , since any increase in their value will bear directly on the brokers ' remuneration . |
| 20 | Bjornbye could then step straight in against Crystal Palace in the Coca-Cola Cup replay on Tuesday despite fears over a head injury suffered a week ago . |
| 21 | But according to several Washington commentators and analysts , in sending senior aides to China , Mr Bush may have signalled that the Administration gave priority to continuity in relations over moral outrage , and thus helped to shore up the repressive Beijing regime . |
| 22 | An example of the objectionable content of the draft was the call for relaxation of controls over private sector housing : ‘ local authorities should not lay down requirements on the mix of house types , provision of garages , internal standards , sizes of private gardens , location of houses on plots and in relation to each other , provision of private open space . ’ |
| 23 | During the preparations for the reorganisation in 1974 no fewer than 127 applications were made to government departments for decisions in disputes over agency ( Richards 1975b:84 ) . |
| 24 | The branch secretary , Kathleen McAlorum , a Motherwell district councillor , said that an emergency meeting of the branch executive had been called last Sunday after complaints and threats of resignation from members over the deal for representation on the European committee of the regions . |
| 25 | Drape the triangle of fabric in folds over the curtains and pole . |
| 26 | A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Oct. 2 that Russia would press ahead with the sale of diesel submarines to Iran despite reports of difficulties over payments [ see p. 39122 ] . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Indeed there are even differences of opinion among environmentalists over how this increasing demand upon the countryside is to be accommodated . |
| 30 | I am aware , however , that surveying techniques of the last 150 years have been to standards of accuracy of centimetres over the same sort of distance and landscape . |