Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] of [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presenting a detailed manifesto for the country 's economic and political survival , he appealed for the creation of a " coalition government of popular trust and national concord " to run the Soviet Union , and for removal of communist influence over the judiciary , the security services , the civil service and state bodies . |
| 2 | White and Stevenson ( 1975 ) offer further support for signing as part of Total Communication over oral methods , though their study was relatively small and involved an interpreter presenting information . |
| 3 | A second survey was undertaken to establish the level of loss of requested items over a six month period . |
| 4 | They would pass into the hands of number of different owners over the years , but Charles Titford was to remain the occupier until his death in 1802 . |
| 5 | Spoke to mother who as we arrived was holding a conversation with Head of Senior Department over the telephone . |
| 6 | In February 1951 , a huge rally in support of Spanish sovereignty over Gibraltar was staged in Barcelona , and Franco declared 4 August " Gibraltar Day " . |
| 7 | Two decades after the World Bank report , another commission of inquiry was complaining that the state ‘ interferes excessively in the running of the [ railway ] companies , without that resulting in the clarification of the objectives that they should pursue or in exercise of effective control over them ’ ( CEFE 1984 : 33 ) . |
| 8 | In spite of various difficulties over these early broadcasts and the general absence of supplementary printed material for class use , together with some antipathy towards this innovatory form of teaching , the Cambridge branch persisted with radio programmes into 1929 . |
| 9 | Newton was one of them , and in spite of public fears over a similar junction elsewhere , it had been given the go-ahead . |
| 10 | The Boundary Commission for Scotland concludes that the number of Scottish seats in the House of Commons should remain at 72 in spite of widespread speculation over the loss of Glasgow seats . |
| 11 | The announcement yesterday came after members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union voted heavily in favour of industrial action over the threat of compulsory job losses . |
| 12 | Moreover , a basic premise of Dunlop 's prescription for the advancement of knowledge in industrial relations is the need to break away from the restrictive and myopic confines of problem-solving , institutional studies within individual countries — what has been termed an ‘ ethno-centric ’ bias — in favour of broader comparisons over the course of time and across countries . |
| 13 | The only real shock was the Chancellor 's decision to maintain the price differential of around 20p per gallon in favour of unleaded petrol over leaded four-star . |
| 14 | Hank Holland , president and chief executive , said the firm would continue to support its E and M mainframe series software for another seven to 10 years , but would start to reduce research and development expenditure in favour of client-server environments over the next three years . |
| 15 | If a method can be devised of enabling employees to acquire and sell shares in an unquoted company , and benefit from the increase in value of those shares over the employee 's period of ownership , then it is perceived that employees will wish to participate in the share capital and growth of their employing company and will be motivated to work to increase the value of the business . |
| 16 | In view of these concerns over the mode of inheritance of chronic inflammatory bowel disease , attempts to map susceptibility loci should be analysed by a robust linkage test ( for example , affected pedigree member of ‘ sib pair ’ test ) so as to minimise false positive claims of linkage . |
| 17 | The ceremony must take place in front of two witnesses over the age of 18 . |
| 18 | Moreover , all of these studies either involved very small numbers or had other serious methodological flaws such as lack of objective criteria over initial recruitment or the response to treatment , or both , and lack of a control group . |
| 19 | He told a London conference on acid rain that nearly half of southern Sweden 's forest soils are seriously damaged now , or at risk of serious damage over the next 15 years . |
| 20 | But she conveyed an impression of someone much older because her movements were restricted by rheumatism and her limbs made frail by lack of proper nourishment over the years . |
| 21 | Any of A , B , and 8 can be considered as control parameters , but from a physical point of view it is interesting to use 8 ( which can be varied through its full range by translation of one mirror over one wavelength ) to minimise the threshold value of A. This can be done analytically , based on ( 7.8 ) , and Fig. 7.3 shows A2B vs B for = 1 ( bistability ) and = — 1 ( 2tR or P2 ) instabilities . |