Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 30-nation talks in Geneva failed to bridge the gap between countries such as Germany and the Nordic states , which are seeking a 79 per cent cut in emissions by the end of the decade , and those like the UK and France which want a lower level of cuts over a longer period . |
| 2 | The EC Commission President , Jacques Delors , is calling for closer European unity despite worries over the future of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 3 | Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter . |
| 4 | ‘ It seems after he decided to pull me off , he looked back and decided on different reasons for things over the years to stir up our relationship . ’ |
| 5 | Similarly , there has been some relaxation of restrictions over the formation of mixed and inter-professional practices . |
| 6 | Inland changes to sites over the last 1000 years do not seem to have been so drastic . |
| 7 | Although the shareholders no longer exercised the direct control of principals over the directors as their agents , the model nevertheless asserts that any danger that the directors might use their considerable discretionary powers to manage the business in their own interest is precluded . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions have taken place with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees over the last month . |
| 9 | There seems to have been no clear trend in earnings over the period up to the rapid triumph of machine spinning after 1800 ; in the West of England rates per pound of wool spun were only marginally higher in the 1770s than in the century 's first decade . |
| 10 | Each judge will submit a completed list of nominations over the next couple of weeks and the eventual winners will be presented with their awards at a special ceremony early in the new year . |
| 11 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 12 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 13 | And one detects some shaking of heads over the committee 's decision not to keep Mark Davies . |
| 14 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 15 | Frightened off by such high figures , many collectors renounce the attempt to assemble a complete range of bindings over the centuries and , sensibly , turn to more limited fields ; for example , to books stamped with the coats of arms or crests of early owners in gilt or ‘ blind ’ ( without gold or colour ) . |
| 16 | Secondary double glazed window with views over the golf course . |
| 17 | There were 26 thefts from vehicles over the last week including the theft of a bag , cash , ring , jewellery and driving licence . |
| 18 | In the preceding arguments I have deliberately used the term ‘ enterprise democracy ’ to refer to democratic control by workers over the enterprises which employ them , within the context of the socialist project . |
| 19 | the average number of customers over the week ( add each day 's total customers together , then divide that total by the number of days in the working week ) . |
| 20 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |
| 21 | But both could be ( confusingly ) described as average number of competitors over the same region as the intended word . |
| 22 | The vapour at this boiling temperature is represented by point D. If we plot all such points for compositions over the complete range we obtain the upper curve in figure 6.15 . |
| 23 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 24 | " Our objective is to test the law on the system of consents , by which companies are allowed to discharge limited amounts of pollutants over the course of a year " , explained a Greenpeace spokeswoman , Debbie Adams . |
| 25 | Check opening times with hostels over the winter period . |
| 26 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 27 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 28 | He said there had been a remarkable change in attitudes over the last few years in which those people still in work were determined not to give up their annual break , although they were being forced to cut down on other spending . |
| 29 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 30 | With the introduction of general management , an attempt has been made to address the clinician-management interface directly and to challenge formally , at least in theory , the tight grip of doctors over the NHS as an organisation . |