Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically this calls for an identification of present requirements and an assessment of likely requirements over the next 5 years , subject to review/upgrading in year 6 ; it may be that our letter conveyed the impression that we were asking for a ‘ 12-year plan ’ , this is not the case . |
| 2 | The report concluded that the Soviet Union and not the NKLP connoted the reality of power — ‘ The NKLP is merely an instrument of Soviet control over the northern half of the peninsula . ’ |
| 3 | A senior police officer is insisting that Oxford 's joyriding problem is under control , despite an outbreak of nine incidents over the weekend . |
| 4 | He has already complained to the local government ombudsman and is hoping for an investigation into alleged maladministration over the closure of Hustledown . |
| 5 | He has already complained to the local government ombudsman and is hoping for an investigation into alleged maladministration over the closure of Hustledown . |
| 6 | A number of techniques were evaluated by Bowker and Hill ( 1987 ) in an investigation of geophysical methods over the Gairloch deposit in northern Scotland . |
| 7 | In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws . |
| 8 | This was a bura ( Italian bora ) , the wind which originates when an area of low pressure over the Adriatic attracts cold air from the continental interior . |
| 9 | The answer in this case was the arrival of warm air and its combination with an area of low pressure over Britain . |
| 10 | The unprecedented mass deportation by Israel of more than 400 Palestinians to Lebanon in December cast an air of deep pessimism over the future of the faltering Middle East peace talks . |
| 11 | We can expect an acceleration of such activity over the coming week if the weather remains mild and we are likely to start hearing of our first summer visitors also . |
| 12 | In assessing the water vapour barrier properties of a container at 37°C/80 per cent r.h. this may represent an acceleration of 8–10 fold over 20°C/80 per cent r.h . |
| 13 | The maximum of this loss peak is seen to move from a temperature of about 360 K ( 0.01 Hz ) to about 400 K ( 100 kHz ) , which is an increase of 40 K over a frequency change of seven orders of magnitude . |
| 14 | If we decrease the specificity of the acoustic-phonetic information , we are likely to find an increase in word boundary ambiguity , as well as an increase in homophonic strings over the same stretch of sound . |
| 15 | Accordingly , we would see our modelling approach as an input to corporate debates over resource allocation , not as a provider of prescriptive advice . |
| 16 | In these elite theory accounts , then , political leadership principally consists of maintaining an impression of public control over the state apparatus as a whole , and developing slogans or political formulae useful in mobilizing voter or interest group support . |
| 17 | Similarly , Pw ai3 ORF has an identity of 30 % over a stretch of 260 amino acids with Sc ai4 ORF . |