Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The profile would usually be the number of qualified and unqualified staff required for each span of duty over a 24-hour period . |
| 2 | Harmonic schemes on a larger scale , spanning large movements or in successions of movements , also require planning , for some change of key over a large area is needed to create contrast and relief . |
| 3 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 4 | First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect . |
| 5 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |
| 6 | Oil is the most versatile , flexible and valuable of the primary fuels and part of the process of improved use of energy over the past decade has been for users to switch to other fuels to generate heat , thus saving oil for the transportation and speciality uses for which there are no cost effective substitutes . |
| 7 | Clinton 's chief henchman , Venner , was an amiable enough fellow but his conversation revolved around bear and cock fighting and the virtues of one breed of horse over another . |
| 8 | The dazzle effect of grids can be subdued by establishing a hierarchy of one set of parallels over another . |
| 9 | On the issue of pre-1935 appeasement of Mussolini over Abyssinia he quotes from L. S. Amery 's ‘ diary ’ , which is referred to in a footnote as My Political Life , vol. 3 ( 1955 ) and also refers to two other accounts of the same events in Viscount Templewood 's Nine Troubled Years , pt. 2 ( 1954 ) , and Sir Anthony Eden 's Facing the Dictators ( 1962 ) . |
| 10 | Studies of internal friction of polystyrene over a temperature range from near absolute zero to 200°C or more show four distinct " peaks " or regions of energy absorption . |
| 11 | She delights particularly in this dominance of architecture over furnishing , ‘ a piece of space enclosed simply for the sake of beautiful outline ’ , so that the small dining-table appears as ‘ an odd and insignificant accident ’ . |
| 12 | In the same pan , dissolve the sugar in one tablespoon of water over a low heat , then cook until just beginning to turn golden . |
| 13 | So the right to a pension or endowment is a far cry from any power of possession over means of production , or positive influence over the allocation of resources . |
| 14 | What variables determine a preference for one form of reference over another ? |
| 15 | In this way the choice between a particular and a universal interpretation of the concept of social representation can involve more than a preference for one son of definition over another . |
| 16 | In theory , guidelines for open systems are formulated when a committee of vendors come to some sort of agreement over architectural definitions and create a standard . |
| 17 | Such economic transformations tend to undermine both the national independence of Third World countries , and the autonomy of women where this is based on some degree of control over land . |
| 18 | ‘ Basing myself on long experience of Churchill over the India Bill , I decided to disregard what he said and go straight ahead . ’ |
| 19 | Trident sell the popular rippled ‘ drainpipe ’ -like material Flocor which appears to be mainly aimed at free movement of water over its surface . |