Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Having considered possible explanations for some of the major inter-country differences between the levels of union organisation at a particular point in time it is also useful to examine the related question of the factors which help to explain the year-to-year growth and fluctuations in union membership over the course of time . |
| 7 | The fourth source of financial support for elderly people is the family , but changes in family support over time are difficult to measure and difficult to interpret . |
| 8 | 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 . |