Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 2 | At Messina they succeeded in winning the support of Italy for a move towards broad economic integration , triumphing over both a more limited conception advocated by West Germany that fell somewhere between supranationalism and the old sectoral route , and the doubts of France over the whole concept of a common market . |
| 3 | After several months of uncertainty over the future political direction of the Civic Forum movement , its contending factions agreed in February to form separate organizations ; the Democratic Right Club 's supporters were to become the Civic Democratic Party , while the Liberal Club would formed itself into the Civic Movement . |
| 4 | Ronald Venetiaan , the candidate of the coalition New Front for Democracy and Development ( NF ) , was elected President on Sept. 7 , ending four months of uncertainty over the future government of the country . |
| 5 | Prime Minister Felipe González , the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , on April 5 won a vote of confidence in the Congress of Deputies , concluding five months of uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats in the 350-seat Congress resulting from the October general election , after which recounts and repeat elections had been necessary in a number of constituencies . |
| 6 | Amnesty said that the torture of those detained by the army and police was a daily routine , and that it had received reports of more than 200 cases of torture over the past two years , but believed the true figure to be much higher . |
| 7 | In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few . |
| 8 | THE National Science Foundation in the US funded a two-to three-year study ‘ to examine the many areas of controversy over the scientific use , development , and application of gene-transplantation research ’ . |
| 9 | Whereas statements in the autonomous scientific field are descriptive statements , legal utterances are performatives in their very effects of power over the social . |
| 10 | Take a typical staircase in your home ( 3–35° ) , tilt it to match the angle of the sides of Egypt 's Great Pyramids at Giza ( 52° ) , remove some of the steps , and shovel ice and a couple of feet of snow over the whole affair . |
| 11 | Lord Porter , who delivered the only speech , referred to a number of earlier cases dealing with the construction of ‘ carrying on a business ’ for the purposes of jurisdiction over the separate property of married women . |
| 12 | Coal , West Germany 's only significant indigenous resource , has enjoyed two drastic changes of fortune over the past twenty years or so . |
| 13 | Despite this minimal preparation , and regular changes of personnel over the past fortnight , they achieved a wholly implausible blend of skill , aggression and indomitable spirit . |
| 14 | It is through the implementation of this agreed machinery that disciplinary tribunals and the Inns themselves , with the consent of the Lord Chief Justice , are now able to exercise extended powers of control over the professional conduct of barristers , with a wider range of penalties , but subject always , in the case of decisions by tribunals , to a right of appeal to the visitors : see Disciplinary Tribunal Regulations 1990 , regulations 22 and 30 . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it is good practice to grant the tenant express rights of access over the common parts of the building . |
| 16 | He 's sanctioned a request by Malvern Hills Council to create a 5 mile exclusion zone around the common , banning convoys of travellers over the coming Bank Holiday . |
| 17 | Average rates of return over the whole period were : ICI — HC 15% , CPP 1 ½%; GEC — HC 19% , CPP 10 ½%.; e |
| 18 | Thus , when the Bank of England wishes to bring about a change in base rates , which in turn affect all other sterling rates of interest over the whole yield curve , it does so by adjusting its money market intervention rates , in what must be , by definition , the discount market . |
| 19 | Ensure that the adhesion is successful by using the pipette to pass streams of buffer over the attached cells . |
| 20 | Mr and Mrs Cossins , of Rye Close , Eaglescliffe , refused offers of abortions over the unexpected pregnancies . |
| 21 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 22 | In April 1985 a tanker spilled 200 litres of PCBs over the main Trans-Canada Highway on the border between Ontario and Manitoba . |
| 23 | She lay down on the bed intending simply to relax and restore herself , but within minutes she was deeply asleep , her red-gold hair fanning out like tongues of fire over the white pillows . |
| 24 | Dr Rhodes Boyson , Minister at the DEDNI , received 2,200 letters of protest over the proposed lignite mining . |
| 25 | I know how long he has been concerned about the aggravated taking of vehicles and the mayhem caused by young men in parts of Nottinghamshire over the past couple of years . |