Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] of [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 Pensions Under Irish GAAP , the expected cost of providing pensions to employees is charged to the profit and loss account as incurred over the period of employment of pensionable employees , with any surplus or deficit of plan obligations over plan assets amortized to the income statement over the expected future service lives of the active employees , at a fixed proportion of pensionable pay .
2 But urban sprawl and rural decay and disfigurement was often taking place in areas where local authorities were weak and where traditions of council control over development had not yet been established .
3 We explained the presence or absence of worker control over output and earnings by ‘ external factors ’ , social influences from outside the individual workshop , eg the organisation of the industry , its degree of capitalisation , the strength of trade unionism and the culture of the community ( Lupton and Cunnison , 1964 ) .
4 The customer 's prior written consent must also be obtained in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) Before the firm deposits collateral with , pledges , charges or grants of security arrangement over the collateral to a third party ; ( 2 ) If the firm reserves the right to return collateral other than the original collateral or original type of collateral .
5 Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see .
6 Indeed Frost and Spence conclude that the main result of their detailed study of employment change between 1971 and 1977 must be ( 1984 , 146 ) ‘ the critical role that service activities and particularly the widespread public services have played in influencing the nature and patterns of employment change over the period ’ .
7 Finally , the project measures changes in the level and sources of household income over the period and evaluates changes in government policy towards the rural poor .
8 The improvement in the speed and comfort of coach travel over the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was very striking , although overshadowed by the even more dramatic later impact of the railways .
9 This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time .
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