Example sentences of "the [noun] of [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of reported decisions over the next few years in other State courts took the Californian position , that first resort was to be had to the Convention procedures . |
| 2 | Snow and Hofnagel-Höhle ( 1978 ) showed the advantage of adolescent learners over adults for learners of Dutch , but add that older learners have an advantage over the very young in learning rule-governed aspects of the language , though their teenage group were superior to the adults . |
| 3 | MacDonald claims that the only located source of systematic collection of data on the progress of non-traditional students over a period of years was at Glasgow Polytechnic for the BA Social Science course . |
| 4 | The building of extended forms over drones or very simple harmonic progressions ( often two alternating chords ) or riffs was , of course , to become a staple of hard rock and ‘ heavy metal ’ music , and encouraged the development of virtuosic soloists , especially guitarists . |
| 5 | It should he pointed out , however , that high quality preparations of M1 human eggs in which reliable chiasma counts could be made , have never really been obtained despite numerous attempts on the part of many workers over a number of years . |
| 6 | Decommissioning the station will cost £220 million and will result in the loss of 490 jobs over the next two years . |
| 7 | The increased demand for food to feed the growing populations of the great cities was met by speedy rail communication with the countryside , which allowed the transportation of perishable goods over long distances and promoted commercialization , specialization , and modernization in the agriculture of many countries . |
| 8 | By vastly cheapening the carriage of heavy materials over long distances , the canals also brought about indirect changes in the landscape . |
| 9 | the proliferation of technical manuals over the last twenty years has meant that the number of manuals supplied with complex aircraft/systems has increased to the point where it is practically impossible to access all the information in the ‘ library ’ ( Fig. 1 shows an example of technical manual growth rate within the Naval Air Systems Command ) ; |
| 10 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 11 | Pete 's cooking was obviously the result of many hours over a hot Trangia . |
| 12 | The brouhaha of recent days over the behaviour of Lonrho , and the Observer newspaper which it owns , should not be allowed to cloud this issue . |
| 13 | Neatly arranged opposite is an array of samplers , sequencers , drum machines and keyboards — just to prove there 's more to the man than the jingle-jangle of six strings over a pickup . |
| 14 | This is a most useful provision that has come to the assistance of many tenants over the years . |
| 15 | This study examines the nature of the mobility of professional scientists over their working lives . |
| 16 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |
| 17 | The revision of liturgical texts over the last thirty years has brought both problems and opportunities . |
| 18 | After all , ITN 's bulletins have made no attempts to deceive us about the influence of Iraqi minders over Sadler 's reports . |
| 19 | The Rushdie business drove a wedge between secular society and Muslims ; it also strengthened the hold of religious leaders over their flock . |
| 20 | OpenServer 400 1.4 uses the RFC 1006 Internet standard that specifies the transport of OSI applications over TCP/IP networks . |
| 21 | This is partly because of the great competition brought about by the flood of new records over the past two years which has prompted the major record companies to reissue at mid-price ( and sometimes in the bargain range ) many of the first generation of digital records made in the early 1980s . |
| 22 | Bracknell , UK-based Recital ( which has a US subsidiary in Boston ) , which started off back in 1988 with the aim of helping dBase , FoxBase and Clipper users to migrate to Unix and VAX/VMS platforms , welcomes Xbase , as it removes the possibilities of legal threats over dBase . |
| 23 | If so , this piece of Leicestershire landscape is the product of various forces over a space of four hundred years . |
| 24 | But in practice , as we have seen , courts have enjoyed a considerable degree of autonomy thanks to the failure of successive governments over the years to develop an overall sentencing policy of their own , or even to articulate a coherent set of principles from which a jurisprudence of sentencing might emerge . |
| 25 | Instruction manuals , tape-recordings of assessment interviews , and interviews carried out under the supervision of experienced therapists over several weeks could be used for the training of new therapists . |
| 26 | It was important for this connection that the model of biological evolution used should be one that saw change as the cumulative product of the actions of individual organisms over many generations . |
| 27 | Society could gain the triangle EFE ' ; , measuring the excess of social benefits over social costs , by increasing the quantity of improvements from Q to Q ' ; . |
| 28 | ‘ The excess of investible funds over the supply of securities looks set to remain for at least another financial year . |
| 29 | That , however , is to ignore the efforts of several bishops over many years to secure some lasting settlement between a wilful king and his resentful subjects ; the lateness of their conversion to deposition — under duress or in despair — is rather to their credit than otherwise ; as for the fiercest episcopal opponents of the king , their experience gave them good grounds for believing that the church 's liberties would be better protected under another king . |
| 30 | One explanation for the ethical crisis comes when people are asked about the standing of leading institutions over the past ten years . |