Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 2 | Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years . |
| 3 | To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc . |
| 4 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
| 5 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 6 | The Bank of England has a great deal of power over the financial markets because of its role as lender of last resort . |
| 7 | Seen from the outside the nature , and above all , the neck-breaking speed of achievements over the past two months may seem remarkable . |
| 8 | Scientist Tom Clarkson said that there was a 50-60 percent loss of ozone over the Antarctic during the southern spring ( from September to November ) . |
| 9 | It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them . |
| 10 | One big piece of deregulation over the past ten years will be hard to reverse : the freeing of interest rates . |
| 11 | At Messina they succeeded in winning the support of Italy for a move towards broad economic integration , triumphing over both a more limited conception advocated by West Germany that fell somewhere between supranationalism and the old sectoral route , and the doubts of France over the whole concept of a common market . |
| 12 | A review of debates over the past two or three years reveals another unusual aspect . |
| 13 | After several months of uncertainty over the future political direction of the Civic Forum movement , its contending factions agreed in February to form separate organizations ; the Democratic Right Club 's supporters were to become the Civic Democratic Party , while the Liberal Club would formed itself into the Civic Movement . |
| 14 | Ronald Venetiaan , the candidate of the coalition New Front for Democracy and Development ( NF ) , was elected President on Sept. 7 , ending four months of uncertainty over the future government of the country . |
| 15 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |
| 16 | It rested on a grant of authority over the whole country by Gregory to the first archbishop , followed by a long history of the exercise of this authority from the seventh century onwards . |
| 17 | In several incidents in the eastern part of Germany over the past two months the Russians have continued to act like occupiers — and drawn only mild reproof from the German government . |
| 18 | There 's been a chorus of condemnation over the British National Party 's election victory in Tower Hamlets . |
| 19 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 20 | The software configuration must therefore include an additional level of operation over the current systems . |
| 21 | The small party — Peter Young by now had about half the men he had brought from Maaloy — opened fire on the warehouse , the Colonel having already emptied his revolver in firing at a sniper 's window , and they kept the German from the window long enough for George Herbert to splash a bucket of petrol over the wooden walls . |
| 22 | Dawn slopped like a bucket of blood over the greasy waves of Lake Pontchartrain , splashing the seaside slum of Bucktown in red … |
| 23 | In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few . |
| 24 | The multi-million pound trail of destruction over the past 12 months includes the following outrages : |
| 25 | The budget totalled $T40,000,000 , a rise of $T2,700,000 over the previous year . |
| 26 | Rodrigo strove mightily not to offend his Moorish subjects , especially in Valencia which became his base of operations over the succeeding months . |
| 27 | There has been a vast impoverishment of people over the past decades . |
| 28 | The consequence of Oswiu 's decision at Whitby , therefore , was the destruction of the authority of Iona in Anglo-Saxon territory and the restoration of the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury over the northern Angles . |
| 29 | Even when industries were not state owned there were various other instruments by which government actually exercised a large measure of control over the private sector . |
| 30 | THE National Science Foundation in the US funded a two-to three-year study ‘ to examine the many areas of controversy over the scientific use , development , and application of gene-transplantation research ’ . |