Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations improved with South Korea as a result of concessions over the treatment of the Korean minority within Japan , and Japan 's admission of guilt over its past treatment of Korea [ see p. 38623 ] . |
| 2 | Other accusations were the result of disputes over the ownership of animals . |
| 3 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 4 | Disappointingly there was little evidence of any change in the condition of attenders over the course of two years from the interviewing of the original sample . |
| 5 | Does the Prime Minister accept responsibility for the chaos and confusion at the heart of Governments over the Poll Tax ? |
| 6 | Tax evasion is a similar problem in interpreting the sixteenth-century subsidy rolls , while any deductions based on the military survey , a crude census of males over the age of sixteen , must allow not only for children but also for the balance between men and women in the population as a whole . |
| 7 | Spare capacity would be resold to other British Telecom units , which could offer a variety of services over the network . |
| 8 | However , normal irregular traffic is not likely to achieve this low figure , and an average loss of 0.75 of a lock will be assumed in estimating the use of water for the passage of boats over the summit . |
| 9 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 10 | Data from the 1931 to 1961 Censuses and from the Ministry of Social Security for 1966 showed a continuous decline in the percentage of men over the age of 65 in full-time paid employment ( Table 2.1 ) . |
| 11 | This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years . |
| 12 | The key to a healthy , nourishing diet for children is variety — aim to give your child a good range of foods over the course of a week or so and you can be pretty certain she 'll get the nutrients she needs . |
| 13 | For sex , argues Foucault , is the pivot of two axes along which the whole technology of life developed : it was the point of entry to the body , to the harnessing , identification and distribution of forces over the body ; and it was the entry to control and regulation of populations . |
| 14 | If evolutionary studies provided a vertical dimension within which objects could signify the development of societies , this was complemented by the growth of diffusionary studies in which the horizontal distribution of objects over the globe was thought to be further evidence for the movements of both peoples and ideas , for example , from origins in ancient Egypt or Germany . |
| 15 | Post-innovation performance of UK firms : an analysis of the distribution of benefits over the innovation cycle |
| 16 | It is intriguing , however , to find , in the appendix , evidence from Parkes ' study that the group of widows over the age of 65 showed a much smaller increase in sedative consumption after bereavement than those under 65 years old . |
| 17 | Similarly , there has been some relaxation of restrictions over the formation of mixed and inter-professional practices . |
| 18 | The passage quoted above can then be read not as a denial of conflicts over the use of common land , but as a comment on them . |
| 19 | Sale et al. ( 1975 ) interviewed a random general population sample of females over the age of 15 in Hobart , Tasmania , and found that overdoses and self-injuries were regarded as potentially lethal in most cases . |
| 20 | This northern land was to remain in Gloucester 's possession for the rest of his life , in spite of disputes over the descent of the rest of the Warwick inheritance , and formed the centrepiece of his influence in the north . |
| 21 | This northern land was to remain in Gloucester 's possession for the rest of his life , in spite of disputes over the descent of the rest of the Warwick inheritance , and formed the centrepiece of his influence in the north . |
| 22 | The Kings Head has welcomed its share of celebrities over the year , including Turner , whilst working on his painting of Easby Abbey , Franz Liszt , who arrive late to play in the ballroom , and , more recently , Val Doonican . |
| 23 | Radial Baffling : A patented design involving a ‘ sunburst ’ pattern of baffles over the chest area . |
| 24 | The four-day third round of talks over the future of the United States military bases in the Philippines ended on Dec. 7 . |
| 25 | Because expensive capital equipment and the attainment of a rapid through-put of production were central to this development , ‘ the craft skill and judgement of the workers had to be as much as possible superseded , as did the control of workers over the pace of work ’ ( Lazonick , 1983 , p. 112 ) . |
| 26 | She especially distrusted the row of photographs over the fireplace . |
| 27 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 28 | Pictures : I 'll take him to Maggie 's after closing-time ( the river of lights over the bar , and warmth , and coñac in coffee , and Maggie admiring and relieved ) . |
| 29 | The two books taken together provide a fascinating portrait of the break-down of conventions over the century between their composition . |
| 30 | the average number of customers over the week ( add each day 's total customers together , then divide that total by the number of days in the working week ) . |