Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first signs of political discontent in England over the conduct of the war surfaced in the parliament of February 1371 , when the commons refused to grant a subsidy until the king 's clerical ministers of state had been replaced by laymen who , unlike their clerical counterparts , would be liable to answer for their misdeeds in the royal courts . |
| 2 | More than 130 people , mostly Egyptian militants and police , have died in political violence in Egypt over the last 14 months . |
| 3 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The USA would enter into a direct dialogue with Vietnam over the issue of Cambodia . |
| 6 | Baker also announced that the USA would enter into a direct dialogue with Vietnam over the issue of Cambodia and that it might be prepared to provide humanitarian aid to the SOC government . |
| 7 | KABUL — Fifteen mujahedin rockets slammed into residential areas of Kabul over the weekend , killing 10 people and wounding 27 , writes Ahmed Rashid . |
| 8 | To understand the significance of these most recent changes , it is first necessary to review the main trends in social mobility in Britain over the past fifty years , before considering those developments that have become more marked since the mid-1970s . |
| 9 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 10 | And there 'll be playing for civic pride in Hereford over the coming week … more than a thousand sports men and women from Cheltenham , Worcester and Hereford are competing in 21 different sports in the annual ’ Sport for All ’ festival . |
| 11 | I join the House in expressing sympathy to the families who have been so griveously bereaved through this tragedy , a tragedy that has been the experience of so many of the British people in Ulster over the past 20 years . |
| 12 | Amid growing public debate in France over the question of what to do with the country 's nuclear waste , a parliamentary report has called for major changes in the state nuclear waste agency , ANDRA ( Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs ) . |
| 13 | The project aims to rectify this omission for England over the period 1650-1914 by the construction of national rent index , and then to investigate two further problems : a regional breakdown of the index to see of there was a space-related differentiated land market ; and secondly to focus attention on three periods of outstanding agricultural depression within the long run to see whether there was a time-related differentiation . |
| 14 | It quickly outgrew its humble illegal origins to dominate social life in Britain over the last six months at least . |
| 15 | This delightful museum , set in a group of 17th Century cottages , presents a realistic glimpse of every day domestic and commercial life in Nottingham over the last 300 years . |
| 16 | The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism . |
| 17 | More than £4m has been spent on reclaiming derelict land in Darlington over the last ten years . |
| 18 | Cynon Valley ) in a written reply yesterday that she has received 6,900 letters on Cambodia over the last month . |
| 19 | As Table 4 indicates , substantial changes took place in the structure of residential services in Nottinghamshire over the period of the study . |
| 20 | Detailed observation of Willis over the years , however , and his general ‘ out to lunch ’ demeanour , suggested Dylan to be more a tribute to that rather vacant rabbit of Magic Roundabout fame . |
| 21 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 22 | The Round Table , which has always worked closely with the Trust has organised thirteen clinics in Oxfordshire over the next fortnight . |
| 23 | Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure . |
| 24 | As a result , there was serious unrest in Poland over the summer and in Hungary Imre Nagy took steps to create a multi-party state and withdraw from the Warsaw Fact . |
| 25 | The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment . |
| 26 | PRESIDENT Yeltsin consolidated his authority yesterday by persuading Russia 's highest parliament to shelve an attempt to trim his powers and by defusing a dangerous row with Ukraine over the Black Sea Fleet . |
| 27 | He called on the Soviet Union to show " good faith " in resolving its long-standing disagreements with Japan over the disputed Kurile islands to the north of the country [ see p. 38148 ] , and finally he affirmed his faith that the USA would remain the " cornerstone " of Japan 's foreign policy . |
| 28 | Cell fusion and genetic research at Oxford over the past two decades have shown that malignancy and the ability of tumours to spread and kill an animal can be suppressed by the function of normal cellular genes . |
| 29 | JOHN Major will be given a rough ride at the Tory conference in October over the Government 's handling of the economy . |
| 30 | Then again , his paternalistic leadership style , his willingness to bring ex-Nazis into office , his pro-Westernism and his fostering of materialism were to invite widespread criticism in Germany over the following years . |