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

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1 And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international .
2 Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture
3 He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English .
4 Place a piece of cling film directly on top of the icing and another piece of cling film over the top of the bowl to prevent the icing from drying .
5 It may be that the Minoans enjoyed the social and diplomatic aspects of long-drawn-out negotiations over the price of a cargo with Egyptian , Cypriot , or Trojan merchants .
6 The article was a review of process developments over the years and the way changing technology has impacted on fuel design .
7 The symbolic roles of political leaders preoccupied Pareto and Mosca , who characterized them in a persistently cynical way as outright manipulation or fraud , simple tricks essential to the maintenance of elite control over the mass .
8 Mindful of questions such as these , many Third World governments have tried to establish food policies in order to ensure an acceptable level of food security over the medium and long term .
9 We lobbied the British Board of Dream Classification over the blasphemy rulings .
10 Indeed Frost and Spence conclude that the main result of their detailed study of employment change between 1971 and 1977 must be ( 1984 , 146 ) ‘ the critical role that service activities and particularly the widespread public services have played in influencing the nature and patterns of employment change over the period ’ .
11 One cause of friction was the discontent of BIA officers over the failure to implement promises of independence made publicly by General Iida of the Japanese army when the BIA first entered Tavoy in the south .
12 The second aspect is the relative stability in the proportion of transport workers over the two decades , despite , as we know from Figure 3.1 , the job losses that have occurred in the transport service industries since the 1960s .
13 We have also been impressed by the independent influence of family relationships over the generations , an approach which has been brought home to us through discussion with family therapists .
14 Most countries exert some degree of State control over the content and form of advertising .
15 The great advantages of copper pipe over the old-fashioned lead piping are that it is light in weight , relatively cheap and easy to work with .
16 Since a patient 's recall of drug history over the years is an unreliable measure for determining the extent of laxative abuse , we endeavoured to correlate the incidence of pseudomelanosis coli with the endoscopic diagnosis of colorectal diseases .
17 However , the talks were reported to have centred on the issue of water rights over the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers .
18 All that is needed is a smear of silicone lubricant over the end of the pipe and the inside of the fitting .
19 Imports of passenger cars over the three months rose only two per cent by volume , whilst imports of capital goods were down six per cent .
20 The graphic EQ offers another range of tone control over the Carvin and , being switchable , could be seen as adding an extra channel .
21 Based on this information , meteorological and atmospheric dispersion models are employed to predict the spatial distribution of pollution concentrations over the area .
22 to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ;
23 The credentials of team B over the last two General Elections have been so patently hopeless that the floating voter has very rightly not applied the principle .
24 Yellowfin became elusive after the El Nino current change affected the availability of food supplies over the last two decades .
25 The question which arose in those cases was whether the cessation of trade , in the sense of ‘ putting the shutters up , ’ immediately deprived the court of bankruptcy jurisdiction over the married woman , or whether it continued while the trade debts remained unpaid .
26 THE National Health Service will be permanently transformed as a result of the Conservative victory , with fund-holding family doctors and self-governing hospitals becoming the more usual form of organisation of health care over the next five years .
27 LIVERPOOL has had more than its share of pop stars over the years .
28 Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years .
29 In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell said more than £1m was available for the development of nursery schools over the next two years .
30 In a report to the schools subcommittee , director of education Keith Mitchell says more than £1m is available for the development of nursery units over the next two years .
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