Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | After planting , spread a thick mulch of organic matter over the soil around the trees to conserve moisture . |
| 4 | Pin , tack then machine the soft side of touch-and-close fastener over the raw edges . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Pride of place went to an architect 's drawing of Carinish Court over the fireplace . |
| 10 | Argentine diplomats insisted that the accords did not in any way imply recognition of British sovereignty over the Falklands Islands . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A list that sets out the items carefully in red ink , a thin trail of watery blood over the paper . |
| 15 | Some kind of garbled nonsense over the phone about something that had happened while you were robbing the place . ’ |
| 16 | They have weathered every kind of financial storm over the centuries and have skills which the public sector is only just beginning to learn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Or was he simply placing a cloak of scientific respectability over the peculiarly oppressive relationships of turn-of-the-century Vienna ? |
| 20 | Presenting a detailed manifesto for the country 's economic and political survival , he appealed for the creation of a " coalition government of popular trust and national concord " to run the Soviet Union , and for removal of communist influence over the judiciary , the security services , the civil service and state bodies . |
| 21 | For the elderly , the history of welfare provision seems to have been less a story of steady progress over the centuries than an oscillation between phases of relative generosity and meanness . |
| 22 | More immediately the Americans appreciated that the measure of technological superiority over the Soviets , on which their political and military plans were based , had been an illusion . |
| 23 | In contrast , rental payments are likely to form a more constant proportion of current pay over the life cycle . |
| 24 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 25 | It turns out that The Vision of Elena Silves operates on a more secular footing , but its meditation on the transcendence of human love over the coercions of church and state is a quietly compelling achievement . |
| 26 | She has used the many traditional farms and farm buildings owned by the National Trust in the region to give a reflection of everyday life over the past three centuries . |
| 27 | It was administratively feasible because Dutch industrial relations had always been characterised by a relatively high degree of centralised control over the bargaining process , together with a weak position of the trade unions at shop floor level.8 Also , in that particular period , the country had been ruled by governments which by virtue of their composition and policies were able to secure trade union cooperation ( Albeda , 1971 ) . |
| 28 | The Soviet Union " flatly " refused to accept any degree of Japanese sovereignty over the territories and called on Japan to heed the " results of World War II regarding Soviet-held lands off Hokkaido " . |
| 29 | The nature of the DLP 's creation was a prominent campaign issue and most observers interpreted the party 's unexpectedly poor showing as indicative of a high degree of popular resentment over the merger . |
| 30 | They provided for the abolition of the military junta of commanders-in-chief which , under the original military proposals , would have had extraordinary powers and would have been able to conduct independent relations with any other government authority , and they reduced the degree of military control over the armed forces budget . |