Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would certainly make a welcome change , since the weakness of trade over the last year or so has clearly deepened the recession . |
| 2 | This applies most readily to a partnership , for example , where the financial statements are concerned with showing wealth and the change in wealth over the period . |
| 3 | The struggle for control over the Baltic republics is rapidly being overtaken by a bigger struggle for power in the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Moreover , the committee , to be commended for having conducted its extensive researches and drawn its conclusions within a few months , has the advantage of immediacy over the Clark and Palmer committees , which sat over so long a period , in a rapidly changing environment , that eventually no one who was still able to recall the original brief was sure whether it was still relevant to the prevailing situation . |
| 5 | From another quarter , Baroness Faithfull took issue in 1979 with the ‘ simplistic belief ’ in the short-sharp-shock remedy which she viewed as no less foolish than ‘ the theories of those false prophets of permissiveness at whose door must be laid a considerable part of the blame for the rise in crime over the last two decades ’ . |
| 6 | That decision — and many others involving the course of science over the next four years — may rest with a new group of about 30 senior administrators convened two weeks ago by Gibbons and Bowman Cutter of the National Economic Council . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | In this way the illusion of control over the ‘ sinister pluralisation ’ was established . |
| 9 | A retired couple have won the right to challenge the Department of Transport over the impact a new bypass could have on their home . |
| 10 | The issue of sovereignty over the Islands was not discussed [ see also p. 38435 ] . |
| 11 | The issue of control over the Fleet had been a source of tension between the two states since the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 [ see pp. 38732 ; 38878 ] . |
| 12 | Drop the loop of string over the pins , draw it taut to form a triangle with a pencil point . |
| 13 | First used by Christian Dior and Lancôme as a high-performance delivery system for vital active ingredients , the thrust of technology over the next ten years looks set to refine the principle further . |
| 14 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 15 | Certainly , the Parliament of the United Kingdom has a number of other functions and one of these , the exercise of control over the Executive , is of fundamental importance to the constitution of the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | Officers at Darlington Borough Council say the gloves are off in the battle for compensation over the town 's £12m Dolphin Centre sports complex . |
| 17 | However , despite Laud 's personal antipathy towards the papacy , the 1630s did see a growth in the influence of Catholicism over the English government and an improvement in relations between Charles 's court and the papal curia , and for the large numbers of English Protestants who were unable to distinguish between Arminianism and popery and who regarded Laud as little more than an agent of Rome , there could be no doubt that the archbishop was to blame . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In accordance with certain theoretical considerations and after some empirical experimentation , Barro obtained the following fairly complex equation as his best estimate of the process determining the annual rate of growth of the quantity of money over the period 1941–73 : where is the rate of growth of the quantity of money predicted by the process shown in equation ( 6.7 ) to occur in period t , and is the actual rate of growth of the quantity of money in period t - i . |
| 20 | Its main aims were to slow inflation and the fall in production over the next four months , and to maximise industrial potential by offering selective support to viable industries . |
| 21 | The danger of contamination through the use of shared bar soap , the need for improved skin care , when washing is frequent , and the requirement for control over the bacterial skin flora has led to the development of a range of more sophisticated products . |
| 22 | In October of that year , Hickson and Jacques joined forces and met the Director of Education over the possibility of a combined approach to the development of adult education which would reflect the recommendations of Circular 1444 . |
| 23 | Success in the Persian wars and the establishment of control over the Thracian mines brought further enrichment to the treasuries . |
| 24 | They range in size from microscopic flatworms to the giant squid and by the process of evolution over the past hundreds of millions of years , have adapted an amazing variety of different ways of perpetuating their own kind . |
| 25 | But the process of negotiation over the conflict around Kampuchea will keep the broader notion of neutralisation on the Southeast Asian agenda . |
| 26 | In the UK the process of privatization over the past nine years has moved utilities from public to private ownership , again under a regime of regulation ( Vickers and Yarrow , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ The convulsion of war has opened our eyes to many strange things ’ , he wrote in 1919 , ‘ Few of us had realised till war had exposed it how thin is the veneer of civilisation over the underlying animal proclivities … the failure of religion to direct , and education to balance , the actions of men . ’ |
| 28 | It is rather connected with the sort of conversation over the bar the other night . |
| 29 | It swung open at his touch but closing it , as always , was more difficult and he lugged and half lifted it into place and slipped the circle of wire over the gatepost with a familiar sensation of having turned his back on the workaday world and entered country which , no matter how frequent his visits , would always be alien territory . |
| 30 | The second most important power which came with the ownership of the Golden Share was the right of veto over the hiring and firing of the editor . |