Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [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 | ( On Sept. 7 , at the end of a two-day debate for which the UK House of Commons had been recalled from its summer recess , the UK government had won a vote of confidence over its handling of the Gulf crisis , by 437 votes to 35 . ) |
| 6 | Furthermore , disagreement over racial desegregation and the policy of bussing revealed a lack of consensus over the social goals that schools were supposed to advance . |
| 7 | But as he tapped it , expertly , for he had suffered an onslaught of boils over a suppurating , pus-stinking twelvemonth , he knew that the hardness meat it was not quite ripe . |
| 8 | Could it also be that Darlington 's fun and games loving Labour councillors have finally had a change of heart over conferences ? |
| 9 | The next mill downstream has had a variety of names over the years : Russell Mill , Lowes Mill and more recently , Malvern Mill . |
| 10 | I have had a lot of pleasure over the years keeping and breeding tropical fish , and cichlids in particular . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ We have had a number of complaints over the last few months . ’ |
| 12 | She would have had a sort of power over him . |
| 13 | An innkeeper has a lien for his charges upon the traveller 's goods brought to the inn , and , contrary to the usual rule , has by statute been given a power of sale over such goods . |
| 14 | Miss Danziger had heard a variety of interpretations over the many years . … |
| 15 | The wind of God certainly blew on that man , Christian though he already was ; he has not become a paragon of virtue over night , but the manifest change in his disposition and attitudes can not be denied . |
| 16 | Typically this has meant that economic policy has emphasised the primacy of industry over agriculture , investment over consumption and exports over imports . |
| 17 | Although both Beveridge and Bevan had acknowledged the superiority of prevention over cure , the design of the new system ensured that it remained underdeveloped . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Kaitlin has run a lot of times over the course and the fact that the Michael Grassick stable is in form leads me to make him the choice in the Newcastle Maiden Hurdle . |
| 20 | For while the other structural changes altered the range of options open to states and to firms , this one cast a shadow of doubt over which of the available options to choose within the range . |
| 21 | Several factors have encouraged the fertility of women over age 30 . |
| 22 | It had temporarily reasserted the ascendancy of painting over other art forms by overshadowing any advances in literature or music . |
| 23 | But it also brought a smile to manager Brian Horton , and I was thrilled to bits for him because he 's taken a lot of stick over recent results . |
| 24 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | All these birds have lost the power of flight over millions of years . |
| 27 | This was only a temporary setback to the Long March veteran who had survived a number of purges over previous decades when ‘ redness ’ was valued more than ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 28 | Thus RENFE unions achieved a position of influence over the day-to-day organization of railway work comparable to that exerted by the unions in BR . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister has rejected an offer of talks over peace in Northern Ireland with the Sinn Fein leader , Gerry Adams . |
| 30 | As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years . |