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

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1 THERE is a good deal of embarrassment in Paris over l'affaire de la Musee Jacquemart-Andre .
2 LASMO , as operator , in equal partnership with the C.Itoh Exploration Company of Japan , has executed a Heads of Agreement with PetroVietnam over Block 04–2 , a 2,540 sq km area offshore Southern Vietnam .
3 Pour a sloppy mix of plaster of Paris over the damaged area to form a new key
4 I put it in the barn in a seed tray with a piece of glass on top over the winter and the whole lot came up .
5 After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier .
6 Despite a run of small harvests , the cellars in Reims and Épernay were brimming , and it was estimated that had sales maintained their 1932 level , the Champagne houses possessed sufficient stock in hand to tide over sales for the next thirty-three years .
7 Even when age of acquisition and age at time of test are controlled there is a consistent gap in favour of production over comprehension of BSL for groups of signers with average six , 12 and 20 years ' experience ( Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones , 1981 ) .
8 Gradually the sound came closer until it was bellowing overhead , hurling its echo from mountain to mountain over the valley .
9 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 .
10 Residuals can tell us about the general level of variability of data over and above that accounted for by the fit ; we can judge atypical behaviour against this variability , as measured , for example , by the midspread of the residuals .
11 In this kind of evaluation of change over time , it is argued that it is easier to attribute changes directly to the planned intervention , since it is unlikely that other experiences to which the child might be exposed would produce the same pattern of differential progress across different aspects of language .
12 Proceeding with due caution therefore , we can ask : what do we know about patterns of support between kin over the past two centuries ?
13 Looking at the story of food in Africa over the last two decades is a depressing business .
14 But consumption does not directly create capital assets whether financed internally or externally , and investment levels in most countries have not risen significantly as a proportion of GDP in Africa over the last twenty years , and reMain 6 or 7 per cent lower than in both the rest of the developing world and in the industrialized world .
15 Some of these richer families in the village were becoming entrepreneurial , while others still clung to the exercise of power through control over land .
16 He added traders would be questioned on the effects of pedestrianisation on business over coming months .
17 Two-term double modules are used mostly in humanities and social sciences and give longer periods of study for students over broader subject areas .
18 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 .
19 There is a supplement of £10 per person for travel over a Bank Holiday which is applicable for outward travel on or between the following dates in 1992 :
20 I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits .
21 Identical analyses of Costa scores showed no significant differences , with the exception of improvement in oedema at 16 weeks in favour of epogam over placebo ( p=0.04 ) .
22 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 ) .
23 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 .
24 Attempts by the city council to force him from office had proved unsuccessful , and the process had been complicated by frequent changes of mind by Gates over when and whether he was willing to step down .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 These tangible remains bear witness to the development of history in England over centuries .
28 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 ) .
29 UK in dispute with EC over water standards
30 Changes in usage of terms over time can also present problems .
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