Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [coord] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Unix , Morales said that Stratus has met similar problems to other manufacturers — many customers are n't willing to alter systems in which they have invested a lot of money and personnel over the years . |
| 2 | Thick white clouds raced across the blue sky , casting a perpetual kaleidoscope of light and shade over the earth . |
| 3 | In the main they draw attention to the changes of attitude and behaviour over the years . |
| 4 | Many common passerine species must also have increased their downland ranges as a result of the slow advance of scrub and woodland over the remaining grass , and probably the downland avifauna is more varied today than in 1939 despite losing its characteristic and most interesting specialities . |
| 5 | Well anyway getting back to on hardstand number thirteen , it seemed as if he was filling his , it ran out of supplies , so he was filling his supply tank and one of the flight crew of the airplane bumped into him so he spilled this mixture of gasoline and oil over the stove and naturally the tent caught on fire . |
| 6 | Another reason for looking at women 's attitudes to housework comes from surveys of gender differences in the areas of education and employment over the last few decades . |
| 7 | In most other countries those firms employing over 1000 workers have substantially increased their share of output and employment over the past few decades , so why is Japan different ? |
| 8 | In most other countries those firms employing over 1000 workers have substantially increased their share of output and employment over the past few decades , so why is Japan different ? |
| 9 | Men , dusty people and folk of diverse devices , people of business and of leisure , folk of the frontiers and foreign men … trackers of beasts and of seasons , breakers of camp in the little dawn wind , seekers of water and watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world , O seekers , O finders of reasons to be up and be gone … |
| 10 | The period of perestroika under Gorbachev revealed widespread criticism of the lack of control and supervision over the party and government bureaucracies , together with resentment at their ostentatious privileges . |
| 11 | The financial decision is taken , in the light of current market conditions , to issue stock redeemable in equal annual instalments of principal and interest over the ten years following completion of the bridge . |
| 12 | LEA responses to Circular 14/77 were written with sufficient and skilled vagueness that the flaws and weaknesses were not easy to detect ; and a similar picture of diversity and confusion over the curriculum emerged from the HMI secondary survey published in 1979 . |
| 13 | As usual , the parents have the power of life and death over the baby , which all parents have . |
| 14 | So , in the winter evenings , they would draw the curtains and watch The Sound of Music or Bridge over the River Kwai and feel as though they had never moved out of Twickenham . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , BASE is due to announce this week how it intends to spend an extra £4 million awarded by the Office of Science and Technology over the next three years . |
| 16 | Girish Naik , UK marketing manager for business communications with DEC , says that Ericsson 's use of HostBridge illustrates a requirement typical of many large organisations , which are likely to have acquired a mishmash of software and hardware over the years . |
| 17 | Peacock afterwards recalled that the political crisis had not been mentioned during dinner ; instead , he and his sovereign , like two farmers at a cattle sale , had discussed fluctuations in the price of wheat and barley over the past ten years . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the Swedes claim to have discovered a cure for the sore eyes caused by staring at a screen all day which does n't involve putting any kind of filter or screen over the monitor . |
| 19 | A DRC theologian had caused a sensation the previous day by openly confessing to a sense of sin and guilt over the church 's support for apartheid . |