Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun pl] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its organization was similar in that it was controlled by persons of relatively high social status , that ransoming was a major source of profit , and that the transporting of animals over long distances was usual when a payment was not forthcoming . |
| 2 | The proliferation of disputes over scarce water resources , particularly between states bordering the Nile , Euphrates and Jordan rivers , attests to the impact of resource depletion , as does the relationship between deforestation and desertification . |
| 3 | In the standard b -boundary construction , the Riemannian manifold is the bundle of frames over space-time having a positive definite metric induced by the affine connection . |
| 4 | Chan , Chan and Karolyi ( 1991 ) found that the distribution of returns over five-minute intervals for S&P500 futures from 1984 to 1989 was leptokurtic with fat tails . |
| 5 | The transport of sulphates over long distances can lead to reductions in visibility over extensive areas and at locations distant from pollution sources . |
| 6 | Déby had been Habré 's military commander and the architect of victories over Libyan forces in the 1986-87 war [ see pp. 34914-17 ; 35876-79 ; 36256 ] . |
| 7 | The evidence of hearths over tessellated pavements and trampled black earth accumulated over floors has often been interpreted as ‘ squatter occupation ’ , as if casual wanderers had found temporary refuge in the ruins of the buildings . |
| 8 | The multitudinous hazards that face their young — the predatory fish , the vagaries of the currents , the absence of islands over vast areas of the surrounding ocean — are met and ultimately defeated by sheer numbers . |
| 9 | It took an act of will to think of cool winds on hilltops or the pattern of water-shadows over wave-carved sand — things which I have always thought epitomise clarity and freshness and helped to divert my brain from dwelling on the contents of my stomach . |
| 10 | In others of similar nervous system and temperamental make-up it can , through the relaxing of controls over rational thought , facilitate the entry into the autism of which Bleuler wrote and from which much healthy creativity springs . |