Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most spectacular case where the government lost control of the timetable was in the spring of 1969 over the Parliament ( No. 2 ) — House of Lords Reform — Bill . |
| 2 | For him preformation was ‘ one of the greatest triumphs of rational over sensual conviction ’ . |
| 3 | The crime rate was reported on July 6 , 1990 , to have risen by 11.9 per cent over the previous year , and on Oct. 25 , 1991 , to have risen by 10.9 per cent in the first nine months of 1991 over the same period in 1990 . |
| 4 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 5 | It had been planned to take the aircraft up to 5,000ft and carry out some general handling checks , but I never got up that high , consequently I ended up doing a figure of eights over Duxford at 300ft . |
| 6 | In Marxist and elite theory , where perceived interests differ from objective interests , one can find evidence of the power of the dominant class to shape the values of those over whom power is exercised . |
| 7 | The major advantage of automated over manual cartography lies in the computer 's ability to store cartographic and associated data and its speed in handling data and calculating results . |
| 8 | The team continued to astound with their attacking flair and sound defence , treating the home crowd to wins of 5–1 over Plymouth , 10–1 over Croydon Common and 7–1 over New Brompton . |
| 9 | There had been a " partial agreement " with the Vatican since 1964 [ see p. 20341 ] , which itself had helped improve relations following the conflicts of 1949-50 over the secularization of schools and enforced closure of certain religious orders [ see pp. 9721-22 ; 11259 ] . |
| 10 | A total of 9,376 were without work , a rise of 12 over September . |
| 11 | Halsey and his associates provide abundant evidence in support of this over the years . |
| 12 | Plans for the better distribution of population and employment were still needed , but one academic observer reported in 1957 : After 13 years the Conservatives lost office ; in the general election of October 1964 Harold Wilson won power with a slender majority of four over the other parties . |
| 13 | After a high turnout poll , Mr Ashdown retained the Somerset seat with 30,950 votes , a majority of 8,833 over the Tories — an increase of 3,133 on 1987 . |
| 14 | On May 4 , 1990 , the Latvian Supreme Soviet declared the independent Republic of Latvia — recognized internationally in 1920 — to be de jure still in existence , and declared the sovereignty of Latvian over Soviet law [ see p. 37460 ] . |
| 15 | One benefit of this over similar units is that the groove retains the semi-circular wedge , so it is hard to separate this moveable part from the nut . |
| 16 | But the sad experiences of thousands over the past three years show that home ownership is not always a path to happiness and contentment . |
| 17 | But the power and the point of Barthes 's account of wrestling , as a spectacle that re-enacts the battle of good over evil with grandiloquence and excess of gesture and act , is that this interpretation is contrary to an accepted one of wrestling as a sport in which competitors demonstrate skill and strength in their progress towards a victory . |
| 18 | Attempts by the TCCB and the ICC to grasp the creeping bindweed of slow over rates have resulted in one thumping success — and apparently another ++ until the wretched small print is examined . |
| 19 | All three came in with two under par rounds of 73 over the Royal Lytham and St Annes on a day when only eight players bettered a demanding par . |
| 20 | She was going to need every moment of tutoring over the next three weeks . |
| 21 | and I spilt the entire contents of that over my shirt one of my old shirts and it 's the only one I had to wear , I actually had to wear it , it absolutely reeked . |
| 22 | The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt . |
| 23 | MICHAEL ROBERTS was in form at Pontefract yesterday , rattling off a 959-1 treble to make 190 — a lead of 30 over Pat Eddery . |
| 24 | NEW ZEALAND off-spinner Dipak Patel captured a Test best 6–113 as the Kiwis took a first-innings lead of 106 over Zimbabwe , bowled out for 219 in Bulawayo . |
| 25 | On this issue the debate between T. H. Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce at the British Association meeting of 1860 over the significance of Darwin 's recently published The Origin of Species has entered into our mythology . |
| 26 | On the following day Jack still seemed to be sleep-walking his way around the course and I was not surprised when he visited the water a couple of times and eventually handed in a score of two over par . |
| 27 | Although there is an important ethnic factor in this research , namely the predominance of Asian over African managers in the sample , the finding is still significant . |
| 28 | A Super Bowl winner with the Chicago Bears seven years ago , McMahon 's won-lost record of 58–25 over his 11-year career is bettered only by Joe Montana and Mark Rypien . |
| 29 | The Sparc Vector II processor is claimed to boost vector performance of the superserver product by a factor of four over the previous S-MP vector module . |
| 30 | The characteristics are approximated by the sinusoidal functions : The effect of exciting a pair of phases together is shown in Fig. 3.6(b) where the peak static torque is improved by a factor of 1–4 over one-phase-on excitation — For phases A and B excited by positive current the total torque is : and similarly for other phase combinations . |