Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we noted at the beginning of this chapter , because there is no consensus either among or between the different sectors of the village population over the answers to these questions , any overall conclusion about ‘ loss of community ’ is impossible . |
| 2 | Lok peered at the stick and the lump of bone and the small eyes in the bone things over the face . |
| 3 | However , Sharon said in an interview with the Jerusalem Post of March 22 that the Housing Ministry planned to build 13,000 new homes in the West Bank over the next two years . |
| 4 | These up and down movements as the tip scans over the surface provide topographical information which a computer reassembles into an image of the sample . |
| 5 | At any rate , Bloch 's work is exciting , with long singing lines for the solo instrument over a rich orchestral texture , well coloured by brass and percussive timpani . |
| 6 | In two careful analyses of the survey evidence over the past four months , the Washington Post and the American Political Report , an influential newsletter , have come to broadly similar conclusions . |
| 7 | Coil movements produce angular movements of P , causing horizontal movements of the writing head over paper tape t . |
| 8 | She sat on the sofa still , pulling the folds of the silk wrap over her bare belly , her thighs . |
| 9 | BOOKMAKERS , whose intelligence service makes MI5 look like a bunch of amateur sleuths , for once appear to have led themselves rather than punters up the garden path over the well-being of Travelling Light , the favourite for next Saturday 's Cesarewitch Handicap at Newmarket . |
| 10 | The subject headings under which theses have been categorised in the Rolfe , Will , and Laming lists may be used to assess the relative importance of different sub-disciplines in the earth sciences over the period studied . |
| 11 | Swinnerton , Curcio and Bennett ( 1988 ) used transactions data on the S&P500 for 1986 , and found that the mispricing was a modest predictor of movements in the spot price over the next five minutes , particularly when futures were overpriced . |
| 12 | Zeckhauser and Niederhoffer ( 1983b ) also found that the basis for the VLCI could be used to predict movements in the spot price over the next three days . |
| 13 | The obvious and popular choice was Hilary Weedon , whom they have come to know so well through her numerous visits to the Medau College over the years . |
| 14 | There were rival theatrical cliques , and rifts and vendettas among the games people over alleged unsporting behaviour . |
| 15 | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation , a major lender to Bond but one which cut its exposure to about A$1billion earlier this year , said it would study the implications of the NAB action over the weekend . |
| 16 | As a result of these misleading advertisements and unsolicited telephone calls a number of individuals in the United Kingdom over the period July 1988 to March 1989 purchased Euramco shares . |
| 17 | Pin the top of the pleats to the pelmet board over the ends of the swag ( fig. 46 ) . |
| 18 | Agreed out of court after lengthy judicial hearings , the settlement included ( i ) a US$100,000,000 criminal fine ( the highest levied against a polluter ) , set after Exxon pleaded guilty to charges of criminal misdemeanour ; and ( ii ) $900,000,000 in civil damages , to be administered by a board of Alaska state and US federal officials , to be used for cleanup operations along the Alaska shoreline over the next decade . |
| 19 | The amount breaks down as follows : * a criminal fine of $100 million , the highest ever levied against a polluter , set after Exxon agreed to plead guilty to charges of criminal misdemeanour ; * a total of $900 million in civil damages , to be administered by a board of Alaska state and US federal officials , and used for cleaning up operations along the Alaska shoreline over the next decade ; * if further damage from the slick emerges between the years 2002 and 2006 , Exxon will be liable for up to $100 million more . |
| 20 | Club captain Gordon Strachan made the feelings of the Leeds players over Lukic plain last night when he said : ‘ He 's so mentally tough it wo n't bother him in the slightest . |
| 21 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
| 22 | A US federal appeals court has upheld a $155 million award of damages against the Amoco Corporation over the 1978 oil spill from the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in France . |
| 23 | There have been significant changes in the UK economy over the last twenty years , with a steady growth of the service sector at the expense of industry . |
| 24 | Erm we 's we 've had a number of changes in the water industry over the years . |
| 25 | There have been quite a few changes in the Magazine Team over the past year . |
| 26 | has seen many changes in the pig industry over the years at the NAC Pig Unit at Stoneleigh . |
| 27 | The research has sought to gather comprehensive information on financial support to firms in the study area over the period 1974-84 . |
| 28 | LABOUR MPs are predicting extensive changes to the Shadow Cabinet over the next month , with the increasing prospect that the party 's chief whip will be defeated in an election contest next week . |
| 29 | This last autumn South East Arts tried and experiment in Brighton and organized a series of five so-called fringe theatrical productions at the Pavilion Theatre over a period of two months . |
| 30 | Mr Leckey said the shoot-out in which the IRA men died was a result of actions by the security forces over a threat to the life of a former UDR soldier in August 1988 . |