Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [conj] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finding of archaeology that over the last five thousand years men of the most diverse civilizations have invariably set the highest values on substances which , however attractive aesthetically , were nevertheless useless for purposes of daily life , coincides with the observation of North American society during the last quarter of the nineteenth century made by Thorstein Veblen and embodied in his classic book The Theory of the Leisure Class , originally published in 1899.5 Although composed with the animus and spleen of a man condemned by his personality to a life of persistent failure , Veblen produced a book hilarious in style but of quite brilliant perversity . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly British ministers continued to deal warily with the United States , concerned both for their own freedom of action and over the reliability of the Americans as friends . |
| 3 | Most relatives , however , develop an amazing degree of flexibility and over the years accommodate to eccentricity , peculiar behaviour , apathy and social withdrawal , though sometimes at a high cost to their own lives . |
| 4 | By late March divisions were appearing between members of the 12-party Unity Assembly ( Group of 12 — see p. 37313 ) over the extent to which Pascal-Trouillot should consult with the Council of State and over the alleged influence of Duvalierists or Duvalierist sympathizers in her administration . |
| 5 | But even as she deliberately shut him from her thoughts , it struck her with an icy sense of unease that over the past week something rather worrying had happened . |
| 6 | It is a matter of fact that over the past 12 months , Hinkley B has out-performed Hunterston B and Heysham 2 has performed better than Torness . |