Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 2 | It provides a rather more formal learning structure , and given the price of beer over a session can probably be had at a similar cost . |
| 3 | There never have been any economic or social targets , but given the attitude of government over the first seven years of the LDDC this is hardly surprising . |
| 4 | Suggestions in the bill for an independent panel of experts to be given the power of veto over the research were rejected . |
| 5 | Typically this has meant that economic policy has emphasised the primacy of industry over agriculture , investment over consumption and exports over imports . |
| 6 | Although both Beveridge and Bevan had acknowledged the superiority of prevention over cure , the design of the new system ensured that it remained underdeveloped . |
| 7 | By the time the gentry had increased the quantity of land over which they exercised direct control ( and improved its average quality ) , most of them were keen to sell off the rest . |
| 8 | Several factors have encouraged the fertility of women over age 30 . |
| 9 | It had temporarily reasserted the ascendancy of painting over other art forms by overshadowing any advances in literature or music . |
| 10 | Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings . |
| 11 | All these birds have lost the power of flight over millions of years . |
| 12 | As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years . |
| 13 | The second technical advance that has improved the performance of tokamaks over the past decade has been in auxiliary heating . |