Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] over [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Another trial in 97 patients showed an advantage for surgery over radiotherapy in forestalling the appearance of distant metastases over five years . |
| 2 | The National Union of Women Workers , NUWW ( a philanthropic offshoot of Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls formed in 1895 ) , launched a fresh assault on the conspiracy of silence over incest at their annual conference in 1906 . |
| 3 | Shedding some light on protest over VAT on fuel . |
| 4 | Also , some appear suddenly ( like a visitation ) , others build up gradually , piece by piece over time in an incremental process . |
| 5 | If it is seen as part of control over quality of education , the parent might ask why the child should be given access at all . |
| 6 | He subsequently concluded that , in spite of his own intentions , it was still too deeply coloured by the thought of Kierkegaard and Heidegger , that it gave faith a wrong kind of priority over revelation in the arrangement of its material , and that its account of faith was more Existentialist than Christian . |
| 7 | The state was forced to assume some measure of control over distribution of food and levels of profits , and thus intervene in the market . |
| 8 | But labour has consequences for consciousness in that rules for instrumental action are developed which enable the subject to have a measure of control over nature through the use of tools . |
| 9 | Dec. 18 Bush confirms cancellation of planned Bush-Aziz talks in Washington after controversy over timing of visit . |
| 10 | Although councils have often been appointed to sit on the boards , more recently they have been more open to direct local authority involvement : in the case of Sheffield in 1988 , for example , there was a substantial degree of negotiation over representation from the start . |
| 11 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 12 | This expenditure was funded from a surplus of income over expenditure of £876,208 with the balance coming from specific donations to the Eagle Lodge and Therapy Wing projects and from the Association 's general funds . |
| 13 | Criticizing the orthodox Marxism which regarded dialectics as an external law validated by natural science , Lukács argued for the primacy of history over economics as the most significant element in the methodology of Marxism . |
| 14 | Thus the decorative sumptuousness of the no longer oppositional , visual arts was matched by monumentalism , baroque self-indulgence , and primacy of symbol over function in Vienna 's built environment . |
| 15 | Shock for mother over body in lake |
| 16 | If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus . |
| 17 | The financial year ending 31 July 1956 showed an alarming excess of expenditure over income in the general account of £2,238 . |
| 18 | Measurements reveal a pronounced seasonal range in concentration at Mauna Loa of about 6–7 ppm , which reflects an excess of photosynthesis over respiration during the spring and summer , and the reverse during the autumn and winter . |
| 19 | Structuralist linguists retaliate to the generative linguist 's claim for competence over performance with the argument ‘ An automatic language-processing system which works adequately for competent language but fails on performance is a futile system , because all there is to be processed is performance . ’ |
| 20 | Already characterized by the victory of democracy over authoritarianism in Latin America , this new age would , he said , be bolstered by a new economic partnership linking both hemispheres in a free-trade zone stretching from Alaska to Cape Horn , a concept expounded in the US Enterprise for the Americas Initiative launched by Bush in June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] . |
| 21 | MPs in clash over impact of rail link |
| 22 | Blocking of vote over return of Aristide |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | After the death of Chilperic and the revolt of Gundovald in 584 , Guntram recognized his nephew as being fit to rule in his own name , but even this did not ensure consistently good relations between the two kings , not least because of differences of opinion over control of certain cities , and because of the ramifications of the Gundovald affair . |
| 25 | An objective is a quantitative statement of improvement over time of some aspect of the follower 's activities . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , with the sweet taste of victory over bureaucracy in our mouths , we set about disbanding the old Amateur Radio Association , relinquishing the amateur call letters 1OAB , and organizing a commercial company , CHAB , Limited . |
| 27 | There are two parallel statutory systems of control over Church of England churches : the Church 's system , and the secular system . |
| 28 | This element of control over entry to the trade was crucial to the prospects of artisan unions . |
| 29 | In the USA , in national opinion polls conducted since Chernobyl , there has been a consistent two-to-one margin of opposition over support for new construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 30 | The line numbers given here give a better sense of the preponderance of dialogue over narrative in the Shipman 's Tale , a ratio of about 2:1 . |