Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It recognised that , with educational provision as a whole in a transitional phase , still recovering from the war and still adjusting to the requirements of the 1944 Act , it was inappropriate to ‘ set a course for adult education over the rest of this century ’ : ‘ our recommendations apply to the present transitional period ’ . |
| 2 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 3 | Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture |
| 4 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 5 | Place a piece of cling film directly on top of the icing and another piece of cling film over the top of the bowl to prevent the icing from drying . |
| 6 | Imagine laying a piece of graph paper over an enlarged copy of a character and making a list of all the squares which it covers . |
| 7 | The symbolic roles of political leaders preoccupied Pareto and Mosca , who characterized them in a persistently cynical way as outright manipulation or fraud , simple tricks essential to the maintenance of elite control over the mass . |
| 8 | The Bureau was closed down in 1979 and an interesting experiment in State control over the geography of office location came to an end ( Manners and Morris , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Mindful of questions such as these , many Third World governments have tried to establish food policies in order to ensure an acceptable level of food security over the medium and long term . |
| 10 | We lobbied the British Board of Dream Classification over the blasphemy rulings . |
| 11 | This is really not much more than a local plan for land use over a larger area , so there is now no strategic mechanism for the City of Tyneside . |
| 12 | Most countries exert some degree of State control over the content and form of advertising . |
| 13 | Since a patient 's recall of drug history over the years is an unreliable measure for determining the extent of laxative abuse , we endeavoured to correlate the incidence of pseudomelanosis coli with the endoscopic diagnosis of colorectal diseases . |
| 14 | All that is needed is a smear of silicone lubricant over the end of the pipe and the inside of the fitting . |
| 15 | The graphic EQ offers another range of tone control over the Carvin and , being switchable , could be seen as adding an extra channel . |
| 16 | He has helped and supported Gwen , his third wife , through her battle against breast cancer over the last year . |
| 17 | With the party buoyant in the opinion polls , and taking full benefit from government discomfiture over the poll tax , Labour increased its share of the vote to almost 55% . |
| 18 | He became completely obsessed about germs , eventually sealing himself in a hotel room with masking tape over the doors and windows and paper towels over the bed and chairs . |
| 19 | In northwest Amazonia ( Venezuela ) , there is evidence for fire disturbance over the last 6000 years , with charcoal deposits under terrafirme forests as well as caatingas , and some of the fires may not have been anthropogenic . |
| 20 | The question which arose in those cases was whether the cessation of trade , in the sense of ‘ putting the shutters up , ’ immediately deprived the court of bankruptcy jurisdiction over the married woman , or whether it continued while the trade debts remained unpaid . |
| 21 | THE National Health Service will be permanently transformed as a result of the Conservative victory , with fund-holding family doctors and self-governing hospitals becoming the more usual form of organisation of health care over the next five years . |
| 22 | This ceramic could play an important part in the development of electrode technology over the coming years . |
| 23 | The move , announced at a birds of a feather session at the recent Usenix conference in San Antonio , Texas , marks the end of one of the most influential strands in the development of Unix technology over the years . |
| 24 | It is suggested that the revenue from fiscal drag , which currently goes in financing the inflation-proofing of personal tax allowances , and which under these proposals would no longer exist , should be used to finance the doubling of child benefit over the life of a parliament . |
| 25 | Since ocean-floor basalt subsides as it cools while migrating away from the spreading axis , a faster-spreading ridge will be hotter and more buoyant over a larger area and hence will cause more displacement of sea water over the continents . |
| 26 | Given the revolution in business technology over the last twenty years and its implications for all aspects of business , there is a need for experts in the field of business communication . |
| 27 | India is the classic case of transformation in food production over the last two decades . |
| 28 | Interest in the abundance of groundwater resources has been rekindled , after the emphasis on water quality over the last few years . |
| 29 | A spokesman for City Sites said that it did not envisage that the sale would lead to a reduction in rental income over the year . |
| 30 | The article reported a survey by the National Solid Waste Management Association of the change in landfill capacity over the past five years . |