Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [det] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moneylenders were registered ; subject to some conditions over the way they did business ; they were able to advertise in only a very restricted way ( for example , they were not allowed to mention interest rates or repayment schedules ) ; and courts could re-open their loans , setting new terms , if they charged excessive interest and the original terms were ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ . |
| 2 | Many people have been glad of this device over the years , which has saved them from death or serious injury . |
| 3 | For this degree the coefficient is then the integral of this integrand over the standard interval . |
| 4 | For those , such as the rural semi-proletariat and the absolutely landless with little control over the means of production with which to meet their needs , even individual responses are denied them . |
| 5 | I have been involved in many cases over the years , but nothing like this one . |
| 6 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 7 | Similar to Bills of Exchange , it is possible to either roll over the debt by replacing a Note with another of longer tenor , or by asking for the payee 's consent to the extension of the maturity date . |
| 8 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
| 9 | Nitrogen generation is negligible for both coals over the maturity range investigated . |
| 10 | The competition is open to all readers over the age of 18 in Great Britain , Northern Ireland , Jersey , Guernsey and the Isle of Man , but not Eire . |
| 11 | Competitive innovation has proved decisive in many industries over the last two decades in determining which firms assume leadership positions and which disappear . |
| 12 | Like Bilbo 's and Shakespeare 's winter songs , the ‘ breaking of the Gate ’ would take little rewriting to seem comprehensible and even colloquial at any time over the last half-millennium . |
| 13 | This is particularly true for some people over the age of 85 . |