Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revenues it generated — well over £2 million — were what enabled him to bid for the factory at Earby , only a couple of miles over the hill from Barnoldswick . |
| 2 | The town , sprawling along the side of Lake Managua , has only a handful of buildings over one storey and is without any identifiable centre . |
| 3 | As yet , no coherent policy has emerged , only a confusion of purpose over whether to impose greater restrictions or offer more choice . |
| 4 | Before leaving town he had a professional shave , shampoo and trim — not too much off — just the straggle of hair over his collar . |
| 5 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
| 6 | He says it 's just a case of mind over matter . |
| 7 | Nevertheless it can come as a shock to a trained accountant to discover that 21 billion of net expenditure is accounted for in this way : no assets ; no liabilities , just an excess of payments over receipts of 20 ; 8 billion compared with a budgeted excess of 20.6 billion . |
| 8 | It is worth noting that it was not the Committee 's objective to assert directly the primacy of English over classics , but instead to capture for their subject some of the cultural authority invested in classics for an altered social and educational purpose . |
| 9 | Since the pomeshchiks depended on the same source — peasant produce — for their income , there was always a conflict of interest over the portion to be paid to the State . |
| 10 | you have like a scrag of material over it ? |
| 11 | It is also the item of expenditure over which a mother is most likely to exert control . |
| 12 | Despite all the theory about schemas , in the absence of a crisis the really critical factor in creating the felt need for change is probably the acquisition of power over the organization 's reward/penalty system . |
| 13 | There is also a lack of clarity over where the emphasis should be for promoting the involvement of general practitioners . |
| 14 | There is thus now an excess of supply over demand which augurs badly for the UK as its North Sea oil is relatively expensive to produce and this has put certain marginal oil fields out of production . |
| 15 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 16 | Here again there is negligible waste of power , but unfortunately the range of frequencies over which a transformer will act as a potential or current divider is restricted by the behaviour of the core , there being both a lower and upper limit . |
| 17 | If we further take account of intergenerational differences , then the coefficient of variation over all generations , denoted by , is the weighted sum of individual plus the coefficient of variation obtained if everyone had the mean income of their generation ( the ‘ between-generations ’ inequality ) . |
| 18 | If it is indeed the loosening of control over associative thought — Woolf 's ‘ Wings in the Head ’ — that is the basic mechanism responsible for autism then the question arises : what is it about the mind that modulates this process , allowing it some free rein , though being capable on occasions of going badly awry , leading to psychosis ? |
| 19 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 20 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |
| 21 | She appeared to have gone to quite a lot of trouble over the meal , Although , at that time , rationing was still in force , she produced pâté , a savoury mince , a surprisingly light lemon soufflé and a passable bottle of claret . |
| 22 | She had to get her hands back on the reins , had to re-establish at least a degree of control over her own life . |
| 23 | This is certainly a limitation of windstopper over microfibres or pertex coverings , which have some rain resistance or can be treated with a water repellent . |