Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , normal irregular traffic is not likely to achieve this low figure , and an average loss of 0.75 of a lock will be assumed in estimating the use of water for the passage of boats over the summit . |
| 2 | First , under an approved share option scheme overseas participants are restricted to shares under option up to a maximum of £100 000 value ( UK resident participants are not restricted to £100 000 value and are eligible for the grant of options over shares up to an aggregate value of four times annual remuneration ) . |
| 3 | Even amongst those organisms with well-coordinated nervous systems , a good case can be made for the dominance of beetles over mammals . |
| 4 | The British Broadcasting Corporation has extended its 30-year relationship with ICL Plc with two new contracts for the provision of services over the next six years : first , ICL 's CFM facilities management subsidiary will run the Beeb 's mainframe bureau operation in Feltham , West London on ICL Series 39 SX mainframes ; second , the BBC is taking advantage of ICL 's Open Hire agreement in its move to a distributed Unix computing environment . |
| 5 | For i = 1 , … , m , we will write for the excess of requirements over stocks held at site i of some commodity . |
| 6 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 7 | In 1940 , Thomson was considered as one of the portraitists , but his deafness was considered enough to disqualify him , and the post went to Eric Kennington who however resigned in 1942 over criticism of the ‘ violence ’ of his portraits , and now without an explanation for the change of heart over his deafness Thomson was appointed to succeed him . |
| 8 | However , since , in the mixed condition , the high incidence of singular references is associated with continuations based on the named-character , support is gained for the idea of contrast over mixed description types , influenced or driven by a tendency to isolate a named character through its elevation to status of ‘ principal character ’ ( cf. |
| 9 | In Dew v. Parsons ( 1819 ) 2 B. & Ald. 562 an attorney was held entitled to set off against a claim by a sheriff the excess amount which he had paid to the sheriff for the issue of warrants over what the sheriff was legally entitled to charge . |
| 10 | While classical factors were often present , and for brief periods predominated , Keynesian factors were the proximate forces accounting for the rise in unemployment over this period . |
| 11 | From another quarter , Baroness Faithfull took issue in 1979 with the ‘ simplistic belief ’ in the short-sharp-shock remedy which she viewed as no less foolish than ‘ the theories of those false prophets of permissiveness at whose door must be laid a considerable part of the blame for the rise in crime over the last two decades ’ . |
| 12 | Gas supply agreements often provide for the supply of gas over a long period , sometimes for a decade or more . |
| 13 | Rather the state is the central site for the negotiation of conflict over a whole range of issues , in which the state is a participant though not necessarily a consistently dominant or united one . |
| 14 | Criticizing the orthodox Marxism which regarded dialectics as an external law validated by natural science , Lukács argued for the primacy of history over economics as the most significant element in the methodology of Marxism . |
| 15 | We are , therefore , solely concerned with nine papal letters contaminated to a greater or lesser extent , predominantly with a view to providing explicit papal authority for the primacy of Canterbury over the whole area of Britain . |
| 16 | With control over Korea and Taiwan secure , Japan 's eyes turned to the territories of Northeast China and Manchuria , and Japan 's search for the acquisition of control over greater portions of Asian territory governed the development of Asian Japanese relations during the four decades up to 1945 . |
| 17 | Polybius ' inability to create an appropriate model for the rule of Rome over Italy was inherited by Posidonius and , as far as I know , never remedied by any Greek author . |
| 18 | The Estonian parliament , influenced by these concerns , adopted a constitutional amendment on 16 November providing for the right of veto over all legislation that was intended to apply to the USSR as a whole . |
| 19 | The pound slumped to 2.47 against the mark at one point yesterday as the row with Germany over the leaked Bundesbank document rumbled . |
| 20 | As the war of words over November the seventh heats up , is changing the names of forty streets and metro stations back to their pre-revolutionary titles , just hours before the tanks rolled through Red Square for the traditional Revolution Day parade . |
| 21 | Still more important , one would then need an account of the state as the sort of thing over which capital could exercise power — a set of institutions with no autonomy of their own . |
| 22 | is concerned erm we ask er companies questions about the trend in employment over the past four months and the expected trend and we then calculate from that and the numbers are at the back of the book , pages seven page seventy one basically and on the graphs which follow . |
| 23 | John Farrant will be talking about the development of Brighton over the past three hundred years and how patterns of trade and commerce have tended to repeat themselves . |
| 24 | In addition , of course , there is a brief commentary by the Departmental Head or the General Manager of the Public Service Unit , saying something about the movement in staffing over the previous year , and a brief word or two about what is going to happen in the current and future years . |
| 25 | The foregoing claims about the priority of theory over observation run counter to an inductivist thesis that the meanings of many basic concepts are acquired through observation . |
| 26 | In others of similar nervous system and temperamental make-up it can , through the relaxing of controls over rational thought , facilitate the entry into the autism of which Bleuler wrote and from which much healthy creativity springs . |
| 27 | The consequence of Oswiu 's decision at Whitby , therefore , was the destruction of the authority of Iona in Anglo-Saxon territory and the restoration of the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury over the northern Angles . |
| 28 | Thus , the maximum saving is 15% in respect of the portion of income over and above the aggregate of the 25% rate band ( currently £23,700 ) and allowance ( personal allowance , married couples allowance ) and interest charges and personal pension payments . |
| 29 | An estimate of the degree of acceleration over market conditions can be made only if the mean temperature in the market is known . |
| 30 | The two books taken together provide a fascinating portrait of the break-down of conventions over the century between their composition . |