Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a virtual doubling of the income from occupational pensions over that period . |
| 2 | The majority of reported decisions over the next few years in other State courts took the Californian position , that first resort was to be had to the Convention procedures . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been terrible watching the change in this country over the past 20 years from a time when the consensus was that the public good was what mattered , to today when people only care about shopping . |
| 4 | The order is that the defendant should consent to such steps being taken and the existence of personal jurisdiction over him is therefore essential . |
| 5 | The President was perturbed at the signs of Russian obduracy over Poland but felt that cooperation with Moscow could be preserved if the correct blend of firmness and concession was applied . |
| 6 | More immediately the Americans appreciated that the measure of technological superiority over the Soviets , on which their political and military plans were based , had been an illusion . |
| 7 | The advantage of negligent misstatement over normal negligence claims is that it can be used where the loss has only been economic , although it is not restricted to this . |
| 8 | Snow and Hofnagel-Höhle ( 1978 ) showed the advantage of adolescent learners over adults for learners of Dutch , but add that older learners have an advantage over the very young in learning rule-governed aspects of the language , though their teenage group were superior to the adults . |
| 9 | The advantage of this scheme over RFS is that ions are detected rather than photons and there are no background problems from scattered photons . |
| 10 | The advantage of this work over Bristol-Myers Squibb is also trying to semi-synthesise the chemical from 10-DAB 111 , the yew chemical . |
| 11 | The rise in local politics over recent years is not just the passive outcome of national forces working themselves out at the local level . |
| 12 | MacDonald claims that the only located source of systematic collection of data on the progress of non-traditional students over a period of years was at Glasgow Polytechnic for the BA Social Science course . |
| 13 | The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Nov. 10 increasing the strength of the UN Protection Force in Yugoslavia ( UNPROFOR ) by 75 military observers in order to implement the ban on military flights over Bosnia-Hercegovina , agreed on Oct. 9 [ see p. 39149 ] , which had been repeatedly violated . |
| 14 | NATO ships were in the Adriatic Sea to help enforce the UN arms embargo , and NATO " early warning " ( AWACS ) aircraft were providing the UN with information to monitor the ban on military flights over Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 15 | This provided for the election by all landowners over the age of twenty-five of representatives to local and provincial assemblies . |
| 16 | In these circumstances , it is convenient for corporate officials to pull the cloak of honest ignorance over their heads and proceed under its darkness to stumble blindly and unwittingly over the thin line between what is condoned and what is condemned . |
| 17 | The building of extended forms over drones or very simple harmonic progressions ( often two alternating chords ) or riffs was , of course , to become a staple of hard rock and ‘ heavy metal ’ music , and encouraged the development of virtuosic soloists , especially guitarists . |
| 18 | Glazing is the laying of transparent colour over a dry under layer to create special and/or colour effects . |
| 19 | Having caught the left rough off the tee , she was shaping to hit the kind of second shot over trees and lakes which would have had Laura Davies drooling . |
| 20 | In addition to this year on year process of requesting Parliament to sanction public expenditure , there are also the on-going series of public expenditure surveys which predict the level of public expenditure over the medium term . |
| 21 | The question was designed to establish the level of public concern over this development , so there were no positive suggestions , but the low concern rate for most of the problems posed suggested that the majority of people were not worried about this prospect , nor that it would trouble them personally , socially or financially to any great extent . |
| 22 | A pilot-induced phugoid — shoving the stick to 10 kts over the cruise speed and seeing how long it takes to stabilise in pitch — resulted in one swoop and a small dive before VS returned to level flight . |
| 23 | The UDC 's first pamphlet , written by Morel , was unequivocal in asserting the necessity of military victory over Germany if Belgian sovereignty was to be restored . |
| 24 | It should he pointed out , however , that high quality preparations of M1 human eggs in which reliable chiasma counts could be made , have never really been obtained despite numerous attempts on the part of many workers over a number of years . |
| 25 | Decommissioning the station will cost £220 million and will result in the loss of 490 jobs over the next two years . |
| 26 | In fact it provided the industry with more control over its environment by making conflicts over environmental damage an administrative problem whose outcome could be predicted by corporate executives . |
| 27 | The ‘ adaptive information ’ manifested in behaviour can , however , be described as inherited , because it is due to the action of natural selection over many generations . |
| 28 | The necessary inference from such a principle as his is that the interpreters of law should be the.ones to define the rights of individuals and to trace the bounds of legitimate government over them . |
| 29 | The increased demand for food to feed the growing populations of the great cities was met by speedy rail communication with the countryside , which allowed the transportation of perishable goods over long distances and promoted commercialization , specialization , and modernization in the agriculture of many countries . |
| 30 | This is particularly relevant not only to encourage applicants from among under-represented groups such as women and ethnic minorities who do not figure in great numbers among present appointments but also [ in the light of recent controversy over sentencing decisions by judges ] , to encourage further consideration of the standards themselves . |