Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again Heston held a good deal of creative control over the enterprise , and made his point to Caulfield by writing him a firm letter telling him to be on time or else . |
| 2 | Decommissioning the station will cost £220 million and will result in the loss of 490 jobs over the next two years . |
| 3 | Salinity on density surfaces close to the temperature and salinity minimum of LSW from the CONVEX-91 northern section shows two main features ( Fig. 2 b ) : first , an increase in salinity from west to east ( high salinity values over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Rockall plateau are probably the result of enhanced mixing over the topography ) ; second , a change in the density surface of the salinity minimum . |
| 4 | His discussions with the Pope led to Charles ' confirmation of papal rights over the Exarchate of Ravenna , from Ferrara and Commachio in the north , to Osimo in the south . |
| 5 | Although there are dangers in concentrating on a single see , the information provided by Gregory does allow a study of episcopal elections over the best part of a century . |
| 6 | Elections for 105 seats in the 151-member Tsogdu are by universal suffrage of all adults over the age of 17 ; 10 are reserved for religious bodies and the remainder are occupied by officials , ministers and members of the Royal Advisory Council . |
| 7 | A senior police officer is insisting that Oxford 's joyriding problem is under control , despite an outbreak of nine incidents over the weekend . |
| 8 | After planting , spread a thick mulch of organic matter over the soil around the trees to conserve moisture . |
| 9 | Pin , tack then machine the soft side of touch-and-close fastener over the raw edges . |
| 10 | The brouhaha of recent days over the behaviour of Lonrho , and the Observer newspaper which it owns , should not be allowed to cloud this issue . |
| 11 | The Austrian and Czechoslovak governments announced in January that they would distribute iodine tablets , intended to help combat radiation sickness , to their citizens in the light of growing concern over the safety of some Czechoslovak nuclear plants . |
| 12 | In the light of continuing concern over the supply and training of such employees it seeks to investigate : a ) company experience of skill shortages and responses to them ; b ) strategies used by firms to recruit and retain employees ; c ) the extent and nature of company provision for the training and re-training of employees : d ) the opportunities provided for career progression into more advanced technological and managerial positions . |
| 13 | the proliferation of technical manuals over the last twenty years has meant that the number of manuals supplied with complex aircraft/systems has increased to the point where it is practically impossible to access all the information in the ‘ library ’ ( Fig. 1 shows an example of technical manual growth rate within the Naval Air Systems Command ) ; |
| 14 | The report concluded that the Soviet Union and not the NKLP connoted the reality of power — ‘ The NKLP is merely an instrument of Soviet control over the northern half of the peninsula . ’ |
| 15 | There must also be a place for ‘ commodity-money relations ’ , or in other words the market , which was an ‘ irreplaceable means for the flexible economic coordination of production with growing and constantly changing public requirements and an important instrument of public control over the quality of goods and the costs of their production ’ . |
| 16 | Pride of place went to an architect 's drawing of Carinish Court over the fireplace . |
| 17 | Argentine diplomats insisted that the accords did not in any way imply recognition of British sovereignty over the Falklands Islands . |
| 18 | Basically this calls for an identification of present requirements and an assessment of likely requirements over the next 5 years , subject to review/upgrading in year 6 ; it may be that our letter conveyed the impression that we were asking for a ‘ 12-year plan ’ , this is not the case . |
| 19 | It is often very difficult to find adequate coverage of one species over the sampling area , except in areas of recent forest monoculture . |
| 20 | The Democratic Party presidential nominee , Bill Clinton , had attempted to take advantage of renewed concern over the availability of abortion by restating his support for the right to choose , and by promising that , if elected President , he would appoint to the Supreme Court only judges who supported Roe v. Wade . |
| 21 | One advantage of this system over the software-intensive approach is immediately apparent : the voltage-controlled oscillator 's [ put is continuously variable , so the maximum operating speed of the motor is no longer restricted by its ability to " jump " between discrete stepping rates . |
| 22 | In fact the sequence of events was much more complex than that , although , as discussed earlier , many former patients were discharged to inadequate accommodation without aftercare , and progressive reduction of psychiatric beds over the past thirty years has contributed significantly to the problem . |
| 23 | In discussions on economic and monetary union ( EMU — proceeding in parallel with those on political union ) EC Finance Ministers reached broad agreement on March 18 on the appropriate level of political control over the proposed European central bank ( Eurofed ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A list that sets out the items carefully in red ink , a thin trail of watery blood over the paper . |
| 26 | Some kind of garbled nonsense over the phone about something that had happened while you were robbing the place . ’ |
| 27 | They have weathered every kind of financial storm over the centuries and have skills which the public sector is only just beginning to learn . |
| 28 | Fashion and artistic imagination spread a thick veil of Celtic fancy over the romances ; but through the veil we can discern the real human problems of Wolfram and his like ; in this respect they follow in the footsteps of the twelfth-century humanists , Abelard , Heloise and Ailred . |
| 29 | ‘ American Money ’ , ‘ Kyphos ’ and ‘ Patchwork Lives ’ are tunes of distinction too , super imposing , thanks to a phrase here and a lugubrious melodic twist there , a veil of real-life grime over the swaying dance beats . |
| 30 | In the crazy world of classic cars , where old Ferraris and Aston Martins fetch silly money , and Jaguar E-types have gone through the roof , the rise and rise of these exotics over the past two or three years has lifted values down the line . |