Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 40(1) of the Patents Act 1977 permits an employee inventor to apply to either tribunal for a single or periodic award of compensation over and above the salary he is already earning . |
| 2 | The trade deficit had to be either financed or reduced : the former course meant courting the international financial institutions with their implicit or explicit power of veto over domestic policy , while the latter meant either fiscal deflation in excess of the deflation of demand already induced by the OPEC financial surplus ( in paradoxical combination with cost-inflation ) or setting up stringent import controls . |
| 3 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 4 | Maire Carroll , serving in the shop and hating it , felt a firm and vicious sense of satisfaction over the fate of Eve and Benny , but of course she pretended great care and concern . |
| 5 | The long , arduous and structured process of conflict over the annual budgets gave the mandarins a chance to probe detailed questions of rural electrification , delays in connecting particular consumers , hire purchase finance , and other relatively minor areas . |
| 6 | Nikos , the owner , has developed an informal and relaxed style of service over the last eleven years that 'll make you feel quite at home . |
| 7 | The neglected , but instructive , sub-text to the passions aroused by the BBC director-general 's financial affairs is the ambitious and contentious agenda of reforms over which he has presided in the run-up to the renewal of the corporation 's charter . |
| 8 | If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months . |
| 9 | Codes of practice were supposed to protect the customer , by dangling the threat of expulsion and consequent loss of income over the practitioners . |
| 10 | If however support is evenly spread throughout a country or province but is insufficient in any one constituency to reach this threshold , a party may achieve a small but respectable proportion of votes over all constituencies without securing a seat . |
| 11 | The plants here have a dense but high canopy of leaves over them during the summer ; so , apart from the odd shaft of sunlight , the conditions are overcast but not dark . |