Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.

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1 The Deserted Medieval Village Research Group ( now the Medieval Villages Research Group ) , which was formed in 1952 as a multi-disciplinary research body , drawing in geographers , historians , and archaeologists as well as natural scientists , has revolutionised our concepts of rural settlement changes over the last 2000 years .
2 Specimen jar of sea water in hand , she cheerfully highlighted the embarrassing prospect of European Court prosecutions over the pollution of nearby pleasure beaches .
3 The company , which has developed its own original style of popular mask theatre over the past decade , can be seen at Darlington Arts Centre on Thursday , followed by Stockton 's Dovecot Arts Centre on Thursday and Friday .
4 It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 .
5 Taylor ( 1964 ) in particular noted that the distribution of GSRs over distance travelled corresponded very closely to the distribution of actual accident figures over the same distance .
6 THE All England Club has been cleared of unfair trading practices over the sale of Wimbledon tickets .
7 This run of Tory election victories over the 1950s prompted the speculation at the time that the Tories had managed to establish themselves as the ‘ natural party of government ’ .
8 In addition to implicating members of the Japanese establishment and of the Finance Ministry , the scandal also threatened to imperil Kaifu 's plans for constitutional reform , and highlighted the lack of effective government supervision over the securities industry .
9 For lighting large areas , you may instead find it preferable to ‘ warm up ’ the daylight by taping sheets of orange filter material over the windows .
10 If you are laying new insulation , take the opportunity to put down a vapour barrier of heavy-duty polythene sheeting over the loft floor first , if the plasterboard has no foil face .
11 Given the behaviour of fixed-interest security prices over the period , this may reflect a desire to hold such stock mainly for its capital gain potential .
12 Two elasticated loops , made of shirring elastic or similar — but certainly not tight across the inner eyelets — are used to retain the zig-zag of folded shroud lines over the shoulder risers .
13 This would explain the pre-eminence of various investment banks over the years and the inability of many new entrants to gain profitability .
14 For the effect of closure in terms of intergenerational movement is to provide for the reproduction of common life experiences over the generations . ’
15 However , this system was devised primarily as a means of internal management control over the business sectors , rather than as a guide to the allocation of the PSO grant .
16 Demographic and migration trends indicated that the rate of new household formation over the period of the structure plan ( i.e. until the mid-1990s ) was expected to be half of the post-war average levels and total population was likely to fall .
17 Penal reform groups have a long and honourable history and have played an important part in the development of criminal justice policy over the years .
18 In addition to our aim of forecasting the course of Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ , the second multi-agency enumeration survey also allowed us to investigate whether there had been any changes in the social and drug-using characteristics of known heroin users over the two years of research .
19 Next stick strips of low-tack masking tape over the areas of background colour that you want to remain .
20 So dramatic , indeed , has been the impact of privatization and contracting out of services , and of other local government changes , that a reduction of over a third in the total number of local authority employees over the next five years has been predicted by one senior official ( Davies , 1988 ) .
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