Example sentences of "in [noun] of [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of various difficulties over these early broadcasts and the general absence of supplementary printed material for class use , together with some antipathy towards this innovatory form of teaching , the Cambridge branch persisted with radio programmes into 1929 . |
| 2 | Newton was one of them , and in spite of public fears over a similar junction elsewhere , it had been given the go-ahead . |
| 3 | Moreover , a basic premise of Dunlop 's prescription for the advancement of knowledge in industrial relations is the need to break away from the restrictive and myopic confines of problem-solving , institutional studies within individual countries — what has been termed an ‘ ethno-centric ’ bias — in favour of broader comparisons over the course of time and across countries . |
| 4 | Hank Holland , president and chief executive , said the firm would continue to support its E and M mainframe series software for another seven to 10 years , but would start to reduce research and development expenditure in favour of client-server environments over the next three years . |
| 5 | A newspaper survey has found that concern about the environment has led to a sharp rise in members of environmental organisations over the 1980's . |
| 6 | Here in China is an unending prospect for the lovers of poetry ; its poems are like delicate threads of mosaics of brittle glasslike images that flow in streams of little pictures over water-falls that cascade from the scrolls . |
| 7 | If a method can be devised of enabling employees to acquire and sell shares in an unquoted company , and benefit from the increase in value of those shares over the employee 's period of ownership , then it is perceived that employees will wish to participate in the share capital and growth of their employing company and will be motivated to work to increase the value of the business . |
| 8 | In view of these concerns over the mode of inheritance of chronic inflammatory bowel disease , attempts to map susceptibility loci should be analysed by a robust linkage test ( for example , affected pedigree member of ‘ sib pair ’ test ) so as to minimise false positive claims of linkage . |
| 9 | The ceremony must take place in front of two witnesses over the age of 18 . |