Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gives the Bouguer anomaly which is the most widely used measure of gravitational deviations over the Earth 's surface . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Also , air survey by Derek Riley over south Yorkshire and north Nottinghamshire has identified regular brickwork-like patterns of early fields over many square miles of country . |
| 4 | Negotiations between the Iranian Jewish businessman David Nasser Khalili and the British Department of National Heritage over his offer to lend his collection of Islamic art and antiquities to the nation at the expense of the British are still ongoing ( The Art Newspaper No.21 , Oct 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the American or British sort of open tender over the heads of managers is unlikely to catch on . |
| 8 | For example , in the web of agencies which surround the US presidency and make key foreign and defence policy decisions , Domhoff ( 1970 , 1978b ) claims to detect clear evidence of capitalist control over both popular and elite opinion-making agencies , which set the agenda for policy-making . |
| 9 | But the division of labour within the enterprise is not a juggernaut which crushes out all trace of ‘ skill ’ or peculiarity in the wage-labour of each and every branch of production , and neither can the ‘ capitalist ’ attain the Taylorist ideal of total control over labour . |
| 10 | It was precisely that peculiar combination of laisser-faire rule over the kingdom at large , but absolute personal involvement with all that went on at the centre , in institutional as well as individual and personal affairs , which is the notable quality of kingship in Scotland and explains the high level of prestige and control which the crown enjoyed . |
| 11 | Like John Hughlings Jackson , with his Perceptual Release Theory discussed in the context of hypnagogic hallucinations , they argue that dreaming is the outcome of the cortical integration of sensory inputs over which it has no control . |
| 12 | The move is the first official admission of serious concern over adequacy of anti-fire measures in royal buildings . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps the tremendous upsurge of female creativity over the last hundred years or so , particularly in the fields of literature and art , may be connected with the increasing desire of women to use for themselves ‘ the light principle ’ . |
| 15 | Additional interest is generated by the large and varying changes in the real price of different fuels over the 1970s and early 1980s and by the question as to how this has affected different households . |
| 16 | Interesting as these figures are , they do not give an accurate indication of the average rate of volcanic activity over time . |
| 17 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 18 | The main drawback to this account is Seiji Ozawa 's seeming lack of total control over the inherent pulse : this masterpiece demands a profound appreciation of its structural unity , which is not always apparent here , beguiled the while as we are by Ms Mutter 's enthralling seductiveness . |
| 19 | The actions of political forces and corporate bodies , within the resistant medium of social collectivities over which they have some influence but which they can not shape ex nihilo , may either conserve or transform in various ways the system of economic class relations . |
| 20 | Averell Harriman , from his unique experience of Anglo-American relations over more than a generation , observed that while Roosevelt and Churchill had made the more far-reaching decisions , they were much less close than Macmillan and Kennedy . |
| 21 | Pin , tack then machine the soft side of touch-and-close fastener over the raw edges . |
| 22 | A light van drew up on the wharf , and a man got out and dropped a large quantity of cardboard boxes over the side of the wharf onto the deck . |
| 23 | In contrast , rental payments are likely to form a more constant proportion of current pay over the life cycle . |
| 24 | In the Same way , a large proportion of temporary workers over pension age had taken their temporary jobs " voluntarily " rather than " involuntarily " . |
| 25 | After a hard day of gruelling silence over long distance we both mumble bleak consent to stop for the night . |
| 26 | Prompted by the rapid development of medical technology over the past decade or so , the medical community has come to reject the notion that death is associated exclusively with breathing and heartbeat , the ‘ vital functions ’ . |
| 27 | Pound 's championing of Douglas had much to do with a polemic , in itself just and timely , against the presumed and unearned superiority of metropolitan English over the dialects of the British Isles , and of the English-speaking world . |
| 28 | What is required now is a strategy for the socialist use of democratic control over the local state which , while never neglecting what efforts are possible at providing services in a socialist ( i. e. humane and effective ) fashion in the foreseeable future , pays a great deal of attention to the use of resources for the mobilization of forces . |
| 29 | ‘ Our only safety for the future lies in the positive and conscious exertion of spiritual control over material actions , ’ Cripps said in a speech to the American Bar Association . |
| 30 | Above : ‘ Wee Lachie ’ in the kitchen where a deliberately random wash of blue glaze over white eggshell paint produced this shade of soft blue covering the walls , wooden panelling and window frame . |