Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [noun pl] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when average shrinkage — the retailers ' word for shoplifted goods — is expressed as a percentage of net profit before tax , the position is much worse , reflecting the reduction in profits over the last two years . |
| 2 | The British Broadcasting Corporation has extended its 30-year relationship with ICL Plc with two new contracts for the provision of services over the next six years : first , ICL 's CFM facilities management subsidiary will run the Beeb 's mainframe bureau operation in Feltham , West London on ICL Series 39 SX mainframes ; second , the BBC is taking advantage of ICL 's Open Hire agreement in its move to a distributed Unix computing environment . |
| 3 | Does the Prime Minister accept responsibility for the chaos and confusion at the heart of Governments over the Poll Tax ? |
| 4 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 5 | The introduction is an essay by Octavio Paz in which he stresses the isolation in which the civilisations of the Americas evolved ( as opposed to Europe with contacts from the East ) and he examines the reactions of Europeans over the years to Mexican art . |
| 6 | Disappointingly there was little evidence of any change in the condition of attenders over the course of two years from the interviewing of the original sample . |
| 7 | Other accusations were the result of disputes over the ownership of animals . |
| 8 | The key to minimizing the disadvantages and reaping the advantages of communications over the telephone is the way you behave . |
| 9 | However , normal irregular traffic is not likely to achieve this low figure , and an average loss of 0.75 of a lock will be assumed in estimating the use of water for the passage of boats over the summit . |
| 10 | It is interesting to note a shortening of the working distances at the Clyde end of the rampart : the menace from attackers over the Kilpatrick Hills was such that working parties had to keep protectively closer together . |
| 11 | Data from the 1931 to 1961 Censuses and from the Ministry of Social Security for 1966 showed a continuous decline in the percentage of men over the age of 65 in full-time paid employment ( Table 2.1 ) . |
| 12 | Post-innovation performance of UK firms : an analysis of the distribution of benefits over the innovation cycle |
| 13 | The idea of the continuity of sites over the generations is easier to accept for , if markers of some sort had been laid down , they might well have survived , even if their form had changed over time . |
| 14 | THE war of words over the £4.5m repair bill for a crumbling leisure centre is set to end in court action in the next few weeks . |
| 15 | THE WAR of words over the John Birt affair intensified yesterday when the former managing director of the BBC , Bill Cotton , criticised six senior journalists within the corporation for writing to the Times backing Mr Birt . |
| 16 | A third set of dilemmas revolves around the question of how greater consumer choice can be reconciled with the need for controls over the total growth of services to prevent an expenditure explosion . |
| 17 | It is intriguing , however , to find , in the appendix , evidence from Parkes ' study that the group of widows over the age of 65 showed a much smaller increase in sedative consumption after bereavement than those under 65 years old . |
| 18 | The data are then being used to display trends in the variations between authorities over the period 1975/76 to 1983/84 . |
| 19 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 20 | These amount to the rights of others over the owner 's land . |
| 21 | Because expensive capital equipment and the attainment of a rapid through-put of production were central to this development , ‘ the craft skill and judgement of the workers had to be as much as possible superseded , as did the control of workers over the pace of work ’ ( Lazonick , 1983 , p. 112 ) . |
| 22 | The high seroprevalence of toxoplasma IgG among women born in Ireland compared with British born women may reflect differences in the consumption of undercooked meat or unpasteurised milk or in the use of freezers over the past 30–40 years . |
| 23 | Men crawled over the area like ants over an anthill , and several small handcarts rolled along here and there . |
| 24 | With characteristic modesty she added : ‘ I felt that the award was a tribute to the teamwork of others over the years . ’ |
| 25 | The linking of the national President of Mexico with the workers through clientelist relationships can be seen in the pattern of strikes over the years . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , the pattern of correlations over the ten junctions is extremely similar to that obtained in the previous study , see Figure 5.4 . |
| 27 | Pipe the chocolate into swirls over the chocolate-coated truffles . |
| 28 | The results of this process can be read in detail in catalogues raisonnés , which often give a blow-by-blow account of the arguments of scholars over the years . |
| 29 | As Cumings has pointed out , the importance of this paper is that it foreshadowed with considerable accuracy the sequence of events over the next three years , culminating in the formal establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948 . |
| 30 | Librarians point out that for their part they receive fewer volumes for their money , since the prices of books over the same period have risen distinctly faster than retail prices as a whole . |