Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , the increase in the total number of firms over the period was not one third , but two thirds — to nearly 3 million , or an average increase of almost 500 every working day . |
| 2 | Did he also draw attention to the total inadequacy of control over pension fund investments and procedures ? |
| 3 | The total length of time over which a product may decline depends on a variety of factors , such as its relevance to basic needs , its adaptability in the light of economic trends and whether it is the focus of short-term fads or of longer-lasting fashions . |
| 4 | We 're also engaged with the European Community in discussion over a bid for funding to develop social work , child protection and alternatives to institutional care and to other child care systems within Romania . |
| 5 | The scene was set for a confrontation which , because of the simultaneous peaking of unrest over the food question , threatened to bring not only a few militant engineers , but whole working-class communities into direct action against the continuation of the war . |
| 6 | The Islamic concept of ownership over land is at variance with a system that confers an indefeasible title upon the registered owner . |
| 7 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 8 | The political dimension of control over health and health care is inescapable . |
| 9 | But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT . |
| 10 | The huge loss of dollars under ‘ other transactions ’ in 1947 reflects the short-lived abolition of controls over access to dollars in that year . |
| 11 | In his latter years Tilden also studied the specific heat of metals over a wide range of temperatures , and the history of chemistry . |
| 12 | As important to Tolkien , though , was that it is a word ( like ‘ shadow ’ ) which people use every day , and with exactly the right shade of uncertainty over whether they mean something completely humdrum and practical or something mysterious and supernatural . |
| 13 | It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them . |
| 14 | It is the fear that the administrative form of control over material resources could become politicized to such an extent that it would no longer be subservient to , but subversive of the commodity form . |
| 15 | A key issue in relations with South Africa was the Namibian desire for negotiations over Walvis Bay , the South African enclave with important port facilities . |
| 16 | He had hinted that it might be kind to pass the empty bottle of Scotch over when he 'd drunk it . |
| 17 | Although the shareholders no longer exercised the direct control of principals over the directors as their agents , the model nevertheless asserts that any danger that the directors might use their considerable discretionary powers to manage the business in their own interest is precluded . |
| 18 | Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | It was n't just the sumptuous disproportion of form over content , or the ultra-vivid hypersexual bliss induced by his refinement and exaggeration of the mannerisms of passion . |
| 20 | Draping a 3.5-dimensional colour-shaded perspective view of the magnetic field in colour over a relief representation of the Bouguer gravity anomalies shows correlations between high and low anomalies in the two fields . |
| 21 | Worse , by stripping Germany of much of its industrial wealth , its merchant fleet and its colonial possessions ; and by resurrecting Poland , and making inroads into the German sense of security over Danzig and the Polish Corridor , they gave further cause for grievance and hardened the most unpleasant facets of the German identity fostered by the marcher lands . |
| 22 | ‘ Laura … ! ’ he groaned , a deep , compulsive inner hunger shaking his tall figure as her hands trailed gently downwards , following the dark arrow of hair over the taut muscles of his stomach , which clenched violently at her soft touch . |
| 23 | The vast block of land over which the Merovingians ruled was essentially treated as two different units ; on the one hand there was the north and the east , that is the territories which had been controlled by the Franks before the " Vouillé " campaign , together with the Burgundian kingdom ; on the other there was Provence and the lands captured from the Visigoths . |
| 24 | We looked over the trees at the superb view , the vast dome of light over land and sea . |
| 25 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown : |
| 26 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 27 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1,000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if the annual rate of inflation over the period is as shown . |
| 28 | The softer stones of ancient cathedrals show how deeply it may cut ; and the rock from which the Sphinx was carved may have first been roughly shaped by desert winds , for the general outline follows precisely the aerodynamic flow of air over obstacles , swirling away at the end to leave a mass for the head ; and there are many rocks of similar form elsewhere . |
| 29 | The Premier ski-ed into trouble over his claim that sterling would replace the German mark as Europe 's No 1 currency under his Government . |
| 30 | the average number of customers over the week ( add each day 's total customers together , then divide that total by the number of days in the working week ) . |