Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 2 | For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year . |
| 3 | DESPITE increasing gloom among professional fund managers , individual investors are becoming slightly more confident about the outlook for the stock market over the next year , according to a Gallup survey of 2,000 savers and investors published today . |
| 4 | Penson gave David Davies the job of preparing the foundations , embankment and approach road for the iron bridge over the Severn in the ‘ top sawyer 's ’ home town of Llandinam and was so pleased with his work that he recommended payment of an additional £15 over and above the contract price agreed . |
| 5 | Such judicial deference to the executive can be contrasted to the recent grilling on the subject experienced by Sir Robert Armstrong , head of the British Civil Service , in an Australian courtroom at the end of 1986 during the Spycatcher trial over the alleged revelation of state secrets . |
| 6 | These up and down movements as the tip scans over the surface provide topographical information which a computer reassembles into an image of the sample . |
| 7 | And indeed the new landscape produced some fine dramatic compositions such as the railway viaduct over the smoking town of Stockport ; or the sight of Bradford at night from the moorland hills to the north ; or of the smoky silhouette of Nottingham on a winter evening as seen from the south-bound train on the Eastern Region line ; or the city of Sheffield in full blast on a murky morning ; even ( one thinks sometimes ) the sight of long gas-lit streets of red brick working-class houses in a Victorian town with not a tree or a bush in sight : only the lamps shining on pavements blanched by the autumn evening wind . |
| 8 | Patients reported about three times as many undesirable events in the six months preceding their illness as the comparison group over the same period . |
| 9 | At 17 miles 2 chains , which is between the railway bridge over the Onny and the stone overbridge , known to the BCR as Longville Bridge , he required a screen 8 feet high and 80 yards long , on the north side of the line . |
| 10 | The visitor can pass on without an inkling of these rare events , and in walking through the church pass over the Teutonic bones of those ancients . |
| 11 | ‘ We , I , well , Leon cast into the Broad just off the reed bed over the east side , Sunday afternoon . |
| 12 | THERE was confusion yesterday about the affect on government spending and borrowing after the Treasury climbdown over the way subsidies from the European Commission are treated . |
| 13 | Simon Scott converted , but the Scots , tired after an extra-time victory over the Hong Kong national side , lost 26-7 . |
| 14 | In evidence to the Environment Committee in 1986 the following report was given on the record of the Church Commissioners over the previous seventeen years , during which the future of 1,053 redundant churches was decided . |
| 15 | Would the hon. Lady have supported the resignation of the Home Secretary over the escapes from Brixton ? |
| 16 | She ladled a little of the court bouillon over the fat bits of mackerel . |
| 17 | As far as the company is concerned , the excess of the purchase price over the subscription price for the original shares ( including any premium paid on issue ) will be treated as a distribution . |
| 18 | Morgan , MacDonald and Hilgard ( 1974 ) , for instance , have related hypnosis to mediation by the right hemisphere and Cohen , Rosen and Goldstein ( 1976 ) claimed to show that sexual orgasm in humans is associated with increased amplitude of the wave form over the right but not the left hemisphere . |
| 19 | This enabled someone to establish the numerical co-ordinates of the movement of the cutting tool over the entire sequence of operations and to transfer this to code on punched tape which was then fed into the machine . |
| 20 | So what was the point of discussing any of the myriad amendments over the past six months if so many of them could be shrugged off as ‘ ineffective ’ ? |
| 21 | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation , a major lender to Bond but one which cut its exposure to about A$1billion earlier this year , said it would study the implications of the NAB action over the weekend . |
| 22 | He stopped in the middle of the swing bridge over the canal and watched a couple of local boys fishing from the bank . |
| 23 | Given the propensity of the Academy jury over the years to equate serious acting with stars ' willingness to make themselves unattractive , it is surprising that Dustin did not win hands down . |
| 24 | A suitable feature of the waveform can be selected for generation of the position signal over the required speed range ( Kuo and Cassat , 1977 ) . |
| 25 | The domination of the cinema screen over the audience has also resulted in experiments with ‘ smell-o-vision ’ , but so far we have thankfully been spared Aldous Huxley 's vision of ‘ the feelies ’ . |
| 26 | The marketing of the share sale over the coming weeks is designed to attract the highest possible number of private investors . |
| 27 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
| 28 | In two careful analyses of the survey evidence over the past four months , the Washington Post and the American Political Report , an influential newsletter , have come to broadly similar conclusions . |
| 29 | The expansion of the Royal Navy and the growth of the mercantile marine , however , intensified the alarm of the Navy Board over the shortage of timber . |
| 30 | It is doubtful whether such an explanation of naturally occurring polymorphism could be tested without long-term , detailed recording , not only of the variety of genetic changes occurring within clover populations , but at the same time of a detailed recording of the known hazards in the life of the clover plant over the seasons and the years . |