Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] over the " 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 | The article was a review of process developments over the years and the way changing technology has impacted on fuel design . |
| 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 | Since the 1970s , scientists had observed a significant depletion in ozone levels over the Antarctic . |
| 10 | The decision came after confusion in government circles over the move and a threat from Andrei Plesu , Minister of Culture , to resign . |
| 11 | Furthermore , energy was over 30 per cent cheaper in the South than in the northeast in 1980 , according to Agnew ( 1987b , p. 174 ) , who draws on Bensel 's ( 1984 ) work , which combines the energy and unionization advantages of the South , to illustrate the growing gap in growth rates over the post-war decades between , on the one hand , the energy-rich/right-to-work States and , on the other , the energy-disadvantaged ( high cost , mostly imported ) and heavily-unionized . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We lobbied the British Board of Dream Classification over the blasphemy rulings . |
| 14 | One cause of friction was the discontent of BIA officers over the failure to implement promises of independence made publicly by General Iida of the Japanese army when the BIA first entered Tavoy in the south . |
| 15 | An issue for research libraries over the next few years is to seize the opportunity offered by technology for enrichment of OPACs as electronic access tools . |
| 16 | The second aspect is the relative stability in the proportion of transport workers over the two decades , despite , as we know from Figure 3.1 , the job losses that have occurred in the transport service industries since the 1960s . |
| 17 | We have also been impressed by the independent influence of family relationships over the generations , an approach which has been brought home to us through discussion with family therapists . |
| 18 | Most countries exert some degree of State control over the content and form of advertising . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , the talks were reported to have centred on the issue of water rights over the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers . |
| 21 | All that is needed is a smear of silicone lubricant over the end of the pipe and the inside of the fitting . |
| 22 | The graphic EQ offers another range of tone control over the Carvin and , being switchable , could be seen as adding an extra channel . |
| 23 | He has helped and supported Gwen , his third wife , through her battle against breast cancer over the last year . |
| 24 | The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years . |
| 25 | This is only partly explained by a fall in pupil numbers over the same period — of 17% . |
| 26 | The steep fall in interest rates over the past two years has boosted their operating profits enormously . |
| 27 | This , together with the fall in house prices over the last three years , means that mortgage affordability should fall to a 20 year-low . |
| 28 | 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% . |
| 29 | Based on this information , meteorological and atmospheric dispersion models are employed to predict the spatial distribution of pollution concentrations over the area . |
| 30 | This lock is the uppermost of the mechanized locks and like those below , has a brick control tower and a gantry with traffic lights over the lock chamber . |