Example sentences of "and the [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it kept the school-leaver within the realms of dependence , emphasizing the need for guidance and employment advice ; and , secondly , it led to the eruption of a lively dispute between the Board of Education and the Board of Trade over which department should have final authority for adolescent workers in the administration of the Labour Exchanges Act 1909 . |
| 2 | Legislation to create the agency has been delayed by a dispute between the Department of the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture over its role . |
| 3 | Feminist criticism and research has helped to increase the number of women subjects in mainstream European and North American psychology , and the range of topics over which they are studied . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Plateau is currently at serious risk from man-made factors such as air pollution , the encroachment of nearby habitation and its unregulated sewage and rubbish , and the lack of control over how many tourist coaches visit the site and where they can drive . |
| 6 | The economy is poised for take-off and the figures in Stroud over the last few months but I fully understand the fears of the workers and their families |
| 7 | In the Greek philosophy the physical world had the status of a deity to be feared and worshipped , which not surprisingly was a great constraint to the development of technology and the exercise of dominion over nature . |
| 8 | Much of the bread and butter of anthropology , the description of elaborate group organization , rites of initiation , networks of marriage exchanges , the hierarchy of groups , and the ranking of men over women are all mechanisms for stressing the ‘ otherness ’ among people who daily interact , and , as such , they mark the boundaries within which , and outside of which , daily aggression and domination are played out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You would think he was a gypsy until you looked closer at his blue eyes and the dusting of freckles over his apple-blossom cheeks . |
| 12 | The people over whom governments have authority , the kind of considerations which their instructions pre-empt and the areas of activities over which they have authority are all , to the extent that they are determined by the normal justification thesis , less extensive than the claims made by governments and by the law . |
| 13 | Déby had been Habré 's military commander and the architect of victories over Libyan forces in the 1986-87 war [ see pp. 34914-17 ; 35876-79 ; 36256 ] . |
| 14 | He also brought to an end , but not without difficulty , the suit which had begun between the archbishop and the chapter of Canterbury over the church of Lambeth , which the same archbishop , against the will of the chapter , had built and endowed with many and substantial rents , instituting canons regular in it — noble men , powerful and educated . |
| 15 | But the roles assigned to the various characters , and the preponderance of officers over seamen , was a matter of literary choice and not of social prejudice . |
| 16 | Second we turn to the war itself : the shock of destruction , the determination to rebuild and the emergence of consensus over central direction . |
| 17 | For example , Kuznets ( 1961 ) , using time-series data for a number of countries , found little relationship between the share of investment in GDP , and the growth in output over time . |
| 18 | There is an apparent decrease in the number of polyps affecting each family member , but this may not be a valid observation due to the ages of the three daughters affected and the pattern of recurrence over many years ( 18 years in case 2 ) . |
| 19 | The chart below shows the average percentage increase in the FT-SE 100 Index over 5 years periods ( commencing 1 January ) from 1 January 1979 to 1 January 1992 in comparison to a higher rate Building Society investment and the rate of inflation over the same periods . |
| 20 | Faced now with an AOC budget for 1993 of £24 million — a cumulative increase in charges of nearly twenty per cent per annum — we can see no relationship between this figure and the rate of inflation over the ten year period , or with the numbers of operators ( 21 in 1983 , 246 currently ) or aircraft involved ’ . |
| 21 | On the other hand , if it is impossible to find any evidence of the congruence between government growth and the requirements of capitalism over a certain period . |
| 22 | There is no doubt that Greenpeace direct actions have changed the face of environmentalism and the meaning of conservation over the past few years . |
| 23 | At Messina they succeeded in winning the support of Italy for a move towards broad economic integration , triumphing over both a more limited conception advocated by West Germany that fell somewhere between supranationalism and the old sectoral route , and the doubts of France over the whole concept of a common market . |
| 24 | The commitment to improving the extent of subject match through the control of teacher education , and the exertion of influence over teacher appointments , is therefore clearly substantial . |
| 25 | Success in the Persian wars and the establishment of control over the Thracian mines brought further enrichment to the treasuries . |
| 26 | For a variety of reasons Stalin rejected a ‘ Finnish ’ solution in Eastern Europe in preference to a security formula based on ideological conformity and the maintenance of control over these countries ' internal as well as external policies . |
| 27 | Firstly , the Festival of Britain in 1951 and the Coronation in 1953 had focused the eyes of the world on Britain 's streets , and the number of tourists over here in those years gradually gave rise to concern over the embarrassment caused by prostitution . |
| 28 | Before the whites came , he went on , no one in Australia was landless , since everyone inherited , as his or her private property , a stretch of the Ancestor 's song and the stretch of country over which the song passed . |