Example sentences of "[noun] of the [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later he was to acquire his pleasure dome , his fabled mansion , his circular bed , his non-stop room service of food , drink , movies , closed circuit television and girls from the Bunnies ' dormitory , the Xanadu of the Middle West over which he presided as Chicago 's Kubla Khan . |
| 2 | That seems possible because in one of Jacob 's books , Cornet à Dés , there was a dedication to Modigliani in the edition published in 1917 which was deleted subsequently , presumably as a result of the mysterious quarrel over Beatrice . |
| 3 | As a result of the general squeeze over the past year ITN has turned to additional revenue raisers . |
| 4 | But the result of the intensive programming over the same six years lowered coronary death rate by only 7 per cent , when they were needed . |
| 5 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of an Azerbaijani blockade — itself a result of the territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 6 | East Germany 's leaders will have the opportunity of discussing the future of the two Germanys over the next two days with President Franois Mitterrand of France , the first head of state of the Western wartime Allies to pay an official visit to East Germany . |
| 7 | Fujitsu looks to sell 35,000 units of the new models over the next two years . |
| 8 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 9 | Wynne-Jones constructed a fire and pushed cut fragments of the wild pig over the flames . |
| 10 | At the top of the blind , turn 1.5cm ( ⅝in ) to the wrong side and pin and tack the soft side of the touch-and-close fastener over the raw edge . |
| 11 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 12 | They estimate that in the 250 largest corporations , a $1,000 increase in corporate value ( defined as share price appreciation plus dividends ) produces an increase in the salary and bonus of the chief executive over a two year period of less than 10 cents , and share options add only another 58 cents . |
| 13 | In the light of the recent debates over the attribution of the prints of Mantegna and his school which arose during the recent exhibition , it was particularly apposite of Christie 's to produce a beautiful impression of ‘ The Flagellation with the Pavement ’ ( B.XIII ) ( lot 30 , est. £120,000–160,000 ) , here attributed to Mantegna with a correspondingly strong estimate . |
| 14 | PC Whitehouse said he and WPC Larkin were shocked and upset after hearing about the shooting of the other officers over their radio . |
| 15 | Polybius acts as a Greek who has a vital interest in the proper functioning of the Roman hegemony over Greece . |
| 16 | Luke writes of the natural hesitancy of the Jewish believers over the unprecedented inclusion of Gentiles in the early church . |
| 17 | They see in the presence and power of Jesus a cameo of the final victor over the forces of evil . |
| 18 | The petrochemicals company Exxon have reached an agreement with the Alaskan and US federal governments on a final settlement of the legal action over the Exxon Valdez oil spill . |
| 19 | In this section part of the original bridge over the Braid Burn may be seen . |
| 20 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 21 | In Fig. 11–9 are illustrated the preferences of the median voter over a private good and the local public good . |
| 22 | The poster explains what is happening and how , and shows dramatic NASA pictures of the Antarctic hole as well as illustrations of the affected region over the northern hemisphere . |
| 23 | Heavy double doors swung open and Sara was aware of flowering creepers and a statue of the Blessed Virgin over another heavy doorway . |
| 24 | For a minute they walked in silence hearing the rustle of the long grasses over their shoes . |
| 25 | PREMIER John Major 's hopes for an end to his troubles were blown away within hours of the three-vote victory over Europe . |
| 26 | This mobilization , it was claimed , served to warn Gorbachev of disaffection in the top ranks of the Red Army over his reforms , and to make him take greater account of military opinion in formulating policy . |
| 27 | Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas . |
| 28 | The chapter also discusses the UK Accounting Standard , the spreading of the original cost over the useful life of the asset and depreciation as a measure of the wearing out of an asset . |
| 29 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 30 | THE WORLD 'S leading space explorers are looking to Europe for help in probing new corners of the Solar System over the next two decades . |