Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [noun pl] over the " in BNC.

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1 The British Broadcasting Corporation has extended its 30-year relationship with ICL Plc with two new contracts for the provision of services over the next six years : first , ICL 's CFM facilities management subsidiary will run the Beeb 's mainframe bureau operation in Feltham , West London on ICL Series 39 SX mainframes ; second , the BBC is taking advantage of ICL 's Open Hire agreement in its move to a distributed Unix computing environment .
2 Does the Prime Minister accept responsibility for the chaos and confusion at the heart of Governments over the Poll Tax ?
3 If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne .
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 Other accusations were the result of disputes over the ownership of animals .
6 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 .
7 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 ) .
8 Post-innovation performance of UK firms : an analysis of the distribution of benefits over the innovation cycle
9 The idea of the continuity of sites over the generations is easier to accept for , if markers of some sort had been laid down , they might well have survived , even if their form had changed over time .
10 THE war of words over the £4.5m repair bill for a crumbling leisure centre is set to end in court action in the next few weeks .
11 THE WAR of words over the John Birt affair intensified yesterday when the former managing director of the BBC , Bill Cotton , criticised six senior journalists within the corporation for writing to the Times backing Mr Birt .
12 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 .
13 If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature .
14 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 ) .
15 The high seroprevalence of toxoplasma IgG among women born in Ireland compared with British born women may reflect differences in the consumption of undercooked meat or unpasteurised milk or in the use of freezers over the past 30–40 years .
16 With characteristic modesty she added : ‘ I felt that the award was a tribute to the teamwork of others over the years . ’
17 The linking of the national President of Mexico with the workers through clientelist relationships can be seen in the pattern of strikes over the years .
18 Nonetheless , the pattern of correlations over the ten junctions is extremely similar to that obtained in the previous study , see Figure 5.4 .
19 As Cumings has pointed out , the importance of this paper is that it foreshadowed with considerable accuracy the sequence of events over the next three years , culminating in the formal establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 .
20 The two books taken together provide a fascinating portrait of the break-down of conventions over the century between their composition .
21 She especially distrusted the row of photographs over the fireplace .
22 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 .
23 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 ) .
24 The British tendency to choose to limit the size of families over the past 20 years , and the need to move around the country in search of better job prospects , has done little to increase the sense of community and neighbourliness which once absorbed so much of the responsibility for mutual support and so-called ‘ informal ’ care in the post-war years .
25 The second technical advance that has improved the performance of tokamaks over the past decade has been in auxiliary heating .
26 Note the coat of arms over the door and the fine plasterwork — with the date 1659 — over the fireplace .
27 On the coat of arms over the main entrance of the College in Camden Town the dates shown are 1785–1937 : the latter refers to the year in which the new Camden Town buildings were royally opened .
28 Hadri had been active in the organization of protests over the treatment of ethnic Albanians in the Yugoslav region of Kosovo .
29 First , ‘ complete lives egalitarianism ’ : this approach suggests that to decide if the allocation of resources between people is fair , we should compare the allocation of resources over the complete life .
30 And in the Jar din Massey there is a museum tracing the history of the regiment of Hussars over the five centuries since its first formation in Hungary .
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