Example sentences of "and the [noun sg] of [noun pl] over " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 ] .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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