Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Deserted Medieval Village Research Group ( now the Medieval Villages Research Group ) , which was formed in 1952 as a multi-disciplinary research body , drawing in geographers , historians , and archaeologists as well as natural scientists , has revolutionised our concepts of rural settlement changes over the last 2000 years . |
| 2 | Specimen jar of sea water in hand , she cheerfully highlighted the embarrassing prospect of European Court prosecutions over the pollution of nearby pleasure beaches . |
| 3 | It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 . |
| 4 | Taylor ( 1964 ) in particular noted that the distribution of GSRs over distance travelled corresponded very closely to the distribution of actual accident figures over the same distance . |
| 5 | THE All England Club has been cleared of unfair trading practices over the sale of Wimbledon tickets . |
| 6 | This run of Tory election victories over the 1950s prompted the speculation at the time that the Tories had managed to establish themselves as the ‘ natural party of government ’ . |
| 7 | Given the behaviour of fixed-interest security prices over the period , this may reflect a desire to hold such stock mainly for its capital gain potential . |
| 8 | Two elasticated loops , made of shirring elastic or similar — but certainly not tight across the inner eyelets — are used to retain the zig-zag of folded shroud lines over the shoulder risers . |
| 9 | This would explain the pre-eminence of various investment banks over the years and the inability of many new entrants to gain profitability . |
| 10 | For the effect of closure in terms of intergenerational movement is to provide for the reproduction of common life experiences over the generations . ’ |
| 11 | In addition to our aim of forecasting the course of Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ , the second multi-agency enumeration survey also allowed us to investigate whether there had been any changes in the social and drug-using characteristics of known heroin users over the two years of research . |
| 12 | So dramatic , indeed , has been the impact of privatization and contracting out of services , and of other local government changes , that a reduction of over a third in the total number of local authority employees over the next five years has been predicted by one senior official ( Davies , 1988 ) . |