Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ ? |
| 4 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
| 5 | This session allows for an in depth examination of the drinking diaries over the last five weeks — identifying the risky circumstances or situations … . |
| 6 | The top of the ladder hooks over the main parapet twenty feet above . |
| 7 | Herbert Tracey reflected that the ‘ defeatist ’ mood of the trade unions over the last few years had been transformed . |
| 8 | In addition , over 60% of the adult residents over the age of 12 years have some formal training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) . |
| 9 | Doreen Wallace , who became Mrs ‘ Roly ’ Rash of Wortham Hall , combined the traditional role of farmer 's wife and mother with an implacable battle against the Church Commissioners over the then current practice of tithes and a successful career as a novelist . |
| 10 | With the prospect of continuing struggles with the factory workers over the safety conditions in the factory , and with a highly suspicious community monitoring its dumping operations , the company could afford no further mistakes . |
| 11 | The long , sometimes violent , dispute with the print unions over the relocation of The Times plant at Wapping marked a notable step both in the new financial and technological independence of the press and its ideological separateness from the union-corporate approach of the past . |
| 12 | The most heroic plays were made as we leapt to stop the ball hitting the wooden door to the hall or banging into the metal shutters over the window , which would have brought the guards running in . |
| 13 | Nor do we know what the implications of Sotheby 's withdrawal from the court hearings over the Sevso hoard of silver will be ( see this page ) . |
| 14 | Darkness outside the hut , and beyond that darkness the ring of light from the arc lamps over the fence and the wire . |
| 15 | Here , as in the pollution debates over the hazards of sewage or acidification of lakes , the Commission and its supporters were applying one line of reasoning whereas environmentalists and scientists in other countries were applying another . |
| 16 | Lok peered at the stick and the lump of bone and the small eyes in the bone things over the face . |
| 17 | The 1991 summer has not been one of the best for tourism in mid Wales and this has been reflected in the passenger loadings over the BR system and , once September came in , things turned particularly quiet with the local line stated to be absolutely dead . |
| 18 | The violence of the early Quakers contrasted noticeably with the reputation for gentle non-conformity they acquired in the market towns over the next century or so . |
| 19 | The subject headings under which theses have been categorised in the Rolfe , Will , and Laming lists may be used to assess the relative importance of different sub-disciplines in the earth sciences over the period studied . |
| 20 | It seems that drop-outs at this early stage have remained a serious problem , particularly in rural areas , though there has been some improvement in the retention rates over the whole primary cycle ( SSA to Standard Five ) . |
| 21 | The path , here still a thousand feet below the top , becomes very rough as the gradient increases , the final scramble through a breach in the summit cliffs over the debris of erosion being sufficiently arduous to justify a prolonged rest when the flat top is at last reached . |
| 22 | In order to help fund the costs of unification the West German federal government and the Länder ( states ) agreed on May 16 to set up a German Unity Fund to raise DM95,000 million ( US$1.00=DM1.6443 as at May 14 , 1990 ) on the capital markets over the ensuing 4@1/2 years ( half to be raised by federal government and half by the Länder ) . |
| 23 | I am intrigued if it does n't like wind rock , how it manages to survive on the drove roads over the downs that where Gerard . |
| 24 | A further increase in advertising and promotions budget will be required to promote developments at the Specialist Gardens over the next 5-10 years , with each garden requiring its own advertising/promotional budget . |
| 25 | We know an older nave existed by the wall Paintings over the chancel arch , these paintings uncovered by Mrs Baker A.R.C.A. were dated from the 12th century . |