Example sentences of "[noun] over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This essential merging of primary rate and basic rate services will be achieved using the ‘ fractional Megastream ’ technology that the company 's Martlesham Laboratory on Martlesham Heath , Suffolk has developed for squeezing multiple ISDN channels over ordinary copper circuits . |
| 2 | In 1945 , the Marton route was still operating the traditional Standard cars over deteriorating track ( see pages 26/7 ) , and the Manager was campaigning for its modernisation . |
| 3 | If you are not going to be carrying heavy weights over rough ground , a range of very lightweight boots becomes available for those short excursions into the country . |
| 4 | Doubts over uv radiation as cause of Chilean illnesses |
| 5 | The Home Secretary in East London was reported this morning to have serious doubts over fixed term contracts and performance related pay , though he would n't confirm this . |
| 6 | Report raises doubts over current approach |
| 7 | It is also a very useful rig for fishing over soft mud and weed . |
| 8 | Uncertainty over long-term beer consumption patterns ( there was a fall in total beer consumption in the early 1980s ) . |
| 9 | But in Britain Marxism still had no more than minimal adherence and we must look rather to the re-emergence of the Labour Party from a decade in the shadows , when it was riven by international faction and uncertainty over international pacifism and rearmament . |
| 10 | Tension over Saudi border incident |
| 11 | Tension over Iranian claim to Gulf islands |
| 12 | But Francis first has to sort out a crop of injury problems and also an international dilemma over Swedish full-back Roland Nilsson before he lays his replay plans . |
| 13 | How can we explain this ascendancy of Christian indifference over Christian compassion ? |
| 14 | He was a tall , rangy , large-featured man with a mobile , wide-mouthed face of agreeable ugliness and iron-grey hair which fell in heavy swathes over parchment-coloured skin . |
| 15 | The failure of the scandal to subside , and the continuing expression of public disgust over lenient treatment of Kanemaru by the prosecuting authorities , was demonstrated by a protest march in central Tokyo on Nov. 10 . |
| 16 | Some Labour MEPs and independent socialists have long argued this is the way to prevent a stranglehold over European integration being exercised by national governments . |
| 17 | Under PR , the trade unions would still have a stranglehold over industrial policy , education would still be in the grip of local authorities and any proposals for effective tax cuts would have been quietly shelved . |
| 18 | For one thing , she discovered that her conscience was at fault over Jewish persecution and she blamed herself for not coming out against such cruelty earlier . |
| 19 | But when Lacroix layered paisley and russet panne velvet over gently-toned organza pleats , he offered women a fashion vision which was both modern and beautiful . |
| 20 | In the first-floor sitting room the log fire throws a soft light over burnished wood , an 18th-century red-brick doll 's house and an antique Persian rug . |
| 21 | Now that has clearly been the right choice given that I think Motif has clearly achieved the ascendant over open look . |
| 22 | Jeff Hearst defeated Paul Irwin 9–6 9–1 9–7 as Crawfordsburn scraped home 3–2 ( 15–6 ) winners over bottom-placed team CIYMS . |
| 23 | The first point is that Ramsey pricing has advantages both in terms of static efficiency and also arguably in terms of equity over cost-based pricing . |
| 24 | Skimming along the water-front with the peculiarly flat ride jeeps give when they 're not lurching on one wheel over lumpy terrain . |
| 25 | In an attempt to overcome a two-year-old impasse over European Commission proposals for an alignment of national rates of Value Added Tax ( VAT ) and Excise rates by 1993 , the ministers agreed to abandon key provisions for revising VAT collection arrangements . |
| 26 | Its hard to see that there will be much demand for it at that price , but AT&T Co has introduced a phone called Picasso Still Image Phone , which enables people that both have one to transmit television-quality colour still images over standard phone lines while still talking to each other — but it costs a cool $3,300 for one ; Picassos will be installed at 39 Marriott convention hotels under an agreement with Washington , DC-based Marriott Corp and AT&T is looking into co-operating on image technology with Eastman Kodak Co — the phone , designed mainly for advertising , design and photography agencies , will work with the Kodak 's Photo CD system . |
| 27 | CHANCELLOR Kenneth Clarke today waded into a fresh Tory rift over public spending after delivering a broad hint that his November Budget will bring rises in indirect taxes . |
| 28 | CHANCELLOR Kenneth Clarke today waded into a fresh Tory rift over public spending after delivering a broad hint that his November Budget will bring rises in indirect taxes . |
| 29 | The threat of a serious military confrontation with Ecuador over long-disputed territory in the Condor Range Amazonian border region , was reported to have faded by Oct. 29 . |
| 30 | In three weeks , the British had re-evoked past imperial triumphs over inadequate opposition . |