Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with a persistent excess of expenditure over income , they may cut student numbers or they may increase income . |
| 2 | In terms of findings , Woodward 's 60 per cent cognate score for American and French Sign Languages represents quite a low degree of similarity over what one would expect from any two unrelated sign languages , and this suggests that ASL and French Sign Language are not very closely related . |
| 3 | Shipwreck treasure ( in particular porcelain ) has proved a strong seller at auction over the past few years , witness the Nanking cargo of 150,000 pieces sold in 1986 for £10.1 million . |
| 4 | And so , i I mean it was to me it was a total waste of time over there ! |
| 5 | While the Americans retained control of the warheads , the British in this instance enjoyed a definite power of veto over their use . |
| 6 | He pointed out that a cubic metre of air over the affected forests had been found to contain 400 mainly unknown but man-made organic compounds . |
| 7 | It is the first to take a European government to court over an ecological issue . |
| 8 | ‘ Mixed Up ’ is a veritable victory of pride over prejudice . |
| 9 | ‘ Mixed Up ’ is a veritable victory of pride over prejudice . |
| 10 | It completed a mini double for Forest over Southampton — they also defeated them in the ZDS final at Wembley the Sunday before last . |
| 11 | ‘ I paid cash and drove away with a funny feeling in stomach over my decision , ’ Darren recalls . |
| 12 | The Orbital 's two-phase ( air blast ) direct injection fuelling system , which adds a finely atomised fuel charge to the cylinder only after the exhaust port has been covered , eliminates the economy and emissions problems of old while providing a high degree of control over charge stratification . |
| 13 | This has the advantage of establishing a high degree of control over the target utterance and , if the child is co-operating , it is possible to make a direct comparison between the utterance the child was attempting to produce and what the child actually said . |
| 14 | At one extreme lie true experimental procedures , which demand a high degree of control over possible confounding factors . |
| 15 | In the 1980s , the tendency for political power to be concentrated at the centre has been carried a stage further by a prime minister sufficiently determined and resourceful to achieve a high level of dominance over her cabinet colleagues . |
| 16 | He subsequently concluded that , in spite of his own intentions , it was still too deeply coloured by the thought of Kierkegaard and Heidegger , that it gave faith a wrong kind of priority over revelation in the arrangement of its material , and that its account of faith was more Existentialist than Christian . |
| 17 | This diffuseness was paralleled by a marked degree of confusion over the appropriate research methods to use in empirical studies . |
| 18 | Destinations contains a marked increase in text over the two previous Streamline English coursebooks and some units are of two pages , reflecting students ' developing proficiency in the language . |
| 19 | Surveys carried out by the council and school children showq a marked increase in traffic over the last year . |
| 20 | Mutual support in troubled times then , is seen as a reciprocal reward for cooperation over the long term . |
| 21 | Those people whose first job on leaving unemployment was a " temporary " one were more likely to suffer multiple spells of unemployment , to hold many jobs , to experience a longer time in unemployment and a shorter time in employment over the 20 months following their initial registration than those whose first job was a " permanent " one [ see Tables 4.3.5 ] . |
| 22 | With the Government facing a fresh possibility of defeat over the controversial social chapter , tensions erupted as loyal heavyweights turned on the rebels during a heated half-hour clash . |
| 23 | Because the poles will heat more than the equator , there will be a tremendous imbalance in energy over the next few decades , which seems bound to produce enormously turbulent and changeable weather , including gales , floods , and late frosts . |
| 24 | ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans . |
| 25 | ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said . |
| 26 | An objective is a quantitative statement of improvement over time of some aspect of the follower 's activities . |
| 27 | According to John Rogers , who knew Miller , a serious difference of opinion over the publication of some of the Society 's proceedings caused the break-up and , he says , ‘ the opponents of the publication demanded their papers from Miller , who immediately gave them up , having , however , with his usual foresight , taken a copy of each , otherwise their valuable contents would most likely have been lost to the world . ’ |
| 28 | When the haoles took everything , surfing became a gesture of revolt , a symbolic reassertion of power over superior forces . |
| 29 | Thus we require participatory democracy to give the individual a real measure of control over the life and structure of his/her environment . |
| 30 | The Electronic Studio represents ‘ a real lead for AMV over other agencies ’ , he says . |