Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Heseltine who 's MP for Henley , walked out of Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet as Defence Secretary over the Westland helicopters affair in January nineteen eighty six . |
| 2 | To apply paint over another , for instance detail over a washed background or ‘ filling ’ for an outline , again allow the paint to dry completely first . |
| 3 | As well as differing from place to place , what is defined as crime changes over time . |
| 4 | An issue for research libraries over the next few years is to seize the opportunity offered by technology for enrichment of OPACs as electronic access tools . |
| 5 | Entitlement theory therefore offers no satisfactory justification of private property in general , and hence , for the purposes of our more limited enquiry , establishes no moral basis for shareholder control over corporate property in particular . |
| 6 | Hybridization signals were quantified by densitometric scanning of these blots and levels of induction are expressed as fold increase over the signals in untreated controls . |
| 7 | The abolition of tax concessions for home owners over the next two years , along with continued falls in house prices , will trigger a stampede to rent , it says . |
| 8 | Lord Aldington — formerly Brigadier Toby Low — who is suing for libel damages over allegations that he is guilty of war crimes , denied a suggestion by Richard Rampton QC , for the defence , that he was responsible for drafting the 23 May request . |
| 9 | Figure 7.3 shows the values of figure 7.2 expressed as percentage change over the period 1961–81 . |
| 10 | Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture |
| 11 | The symbolic roles of political leaders preoccupied Pareto and Mosca , who characterized them in a persistently cynical way as outright manipulation or fraud , simple tricks essential to the maintenance of elite control over the mass . |
| 12 | I have two , one based on a need for nourishment ( a pint of ice-cold Gold Top milk — not for the faint of stomach ) and the other to combat dehydration ( about a pint of tonic water over lots of ice and Angostura bitters ) and that ashtray mouth feeling . |
| 13 | An excess of GP referrals over other referrals of women informally admitted was matched by an excess of female over male GP referrals who were informally admitted . |
| 14 | Since a patient 's recall of drug history over the years is an unreliable measure for determining the extent of laxative abuse , we endeavoured to correlate the incidence of pseudomelanosis coli with the endoscopic diagnosis of colorectal diseases . |
| 15 | We 've got a lot of electronics wizards over here you know . ’ |
| 16 | This , arguably , provides a diffuse but important form of decision control over the managers . |
| 17 | The dominance of wave action over current action in longshore movement is emphasised by estimates of the relative importance of movement as bed load and as suspended load summarised by Komar ( 1976 ) . |
| 18 | In two large and representative necropsy studies the cumulative incidence of prostate cancer over all ages was found to be 32.9% and 18.2% . |
| 19 | The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " . |
| 20 | It is important , too , that close attention is paid to image building ( e.g. banks and insurance companies must be seen to be stable , reliable institutions , but with a friendly , non-intimidating attitude — an image which banks in particular have spent a lot of money fostering over the past decade ) . |
| 21 | The direct mechanism is where an increase in money supply leads people directly to spend the resulting excess of money supply over money demand . |
| 22 | This involved setting targets each year for the growth of money supply over the following four years : the targets got progressively tighter over the four years , thus ‘ putting the squeeze on inflation ’ . |
| 23 | Given the close relationship between three month interbank rates and base rates , this provides a good guide to the money market 's expectation of the path of base rates over the next twelve months . |
| 24 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 25 | NASA satellite surveys had revealed record levels of chlorine monoxide over parts of North America and Europe during some days in January . |
| 26 | The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of , say , one to three years , selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period . |
| 27 | In this way the influence of revenue source over programme content was minimized . |
| 28 | Given the halving of living standards over the past year , this was an even more remarkable result . |
| 29 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 30 | While the actual canals , together with their locks , bridges and wharfs , have their own intrinsic interest , far more significant is the fact that they allowed the easy and cheap movement of bulk cargoes over long distances . |