Example sentences of "the [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | By vastly cheapening the carriage of heavy materials over long distances , the canals also brought about indirect changes in the landscape . |
| 7 | 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 ) ; |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This study examines the nature of the mobility of professional scientists over their working lives . |
| 11 | The revision of liturgical texts over the last thirty years has brought both problems and opportunities . |
| 12 | After all , ITN 's bulletins have made no attempts to deceive us about the influence of Iraqi minders over Sadler 's reports . |
| 13 | The Rushdie business drove a wedge between secular society and Muslims ; it also strengthened the hold of religious leaders over their flock . |
| 14 | OpenServer 400 1.4 uses the RFC 1006 Internet standard that specifies the transport of OSI applications over TCP/IP networks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If so , this piece of Leicestershire landscape is the product of various forces over a space of four hundred years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ' ; . |
| 20 | ‘ The excess of investible funds over the supply of securities looks set to remain for at least another financial year . |
| 21 | One explanation for the ethical crisis comes when people are asked about the standing of leading institutions over the past ten years . |
| 22 | do bring into play Becker 's notion of ‘ moral entrepreneurship ’ and Gusfield 's ‘ moral indignation ’ to explain why certain social groups were prime movers in the development of moral panics over permissiveness in the 1960s . |
| 23 | A third dimension that we also need to be aware of is the development of organisational structures over time . |
| 24 | Seychellois prefer the meat of female goats over that of males . |
| 25 | Fillon has pledged to support efforts , particularly those by the CNRS , to increase the control of individual countries over international research collaborations . |
| 26 | Whether , as is sometimes asserted , the development of more rapid communications , above all the telegraph , greatly increased the control of foreign ministries over diplomats in the field is at least debatable . |
| 27 | Defenders of the orthodoxy agreed at the Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) sometimes denounced emperors such as Constantius II as heretics , and repudiated the authority of secular rulers over the church . |
| 28 | This model provided a way of visualizing the pattern of morphogenetic systems over the earth 's surface during the Cainozoic and so lent itself to a clear way of integrating contemporary world zones with those of the past when ice sheets were non-existent or much less extensive . |
| 29 | We must look to the pattern of judicial decisions over time . |
| 30 | REJECTED the offer of running rights over the Rhyd-ddu-Porthmadog section of the W.H.R which would have been leased to the '64 Company . |