Example sentences of "[prep] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for over seventy-five per cent of the people we spoke to the answer was very clear . |
| 2 | Other hypotheses can also be postulated , such as over translation of transcripts of the involved genes . |
| 3 | They are strategically erected in places favoured by migrant birds , such as over stone walls or steep-sided streams , and are often planted with trees and bushes in order to encourage birds into the ‘ tunnel ’ which ends in a glass-fronted catching box . |
| 4 | This election , is a clear choice between over spending , and over zealous ideas , resulting in an unnecessarily high Poll Tax being levied on us all by a Labour Council out of control , up to its eyes in debt , overspent and overstaffed — or a sane , reasonable planned Conservative Council of common sense . |
| 5 | It is also important to get the right balance between over concern and lack of care . |
| 6 | The introduction of the idea of over spill raises issues of change . |
| 7 | It is overlain with a more detailed pattern reflecting the location of over spill estates , which will be described in Chapter 6 . |
| 8 | On previous TB10s and TB9s I 've flown there was no indent and because of over run on the electrical flap operating system , the first stage of flap was guesswork . |
| 9 | A full discussion of their implications is not possible within the scope of an article , since many documents consist of over loo pages and cover many aspects of an individual 's life . |
| 10 | And possible harmful effects sink into the depths of the medical literature , such as : the serious condition of over stimulation of a woman 's ovaries and other adverse effects from the powerful drugs and hormones used on women in earlier fertility treatments , as well as for IVF now ; higher risks of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy and damage to women 's fertility from the invasive methods . |
| 11 | His upset victory of over No. 15 ranked Magnus Gustafsson placed considerable pressure on Edberg and took a load of Nestor 's slender shoulders . |
| 12 | Like all small-town rivalries in Scottish football , whether it be Airdrie and Hamilton or Ayr and Kilmarnock , the animosity between Dundee and St Johnstone is buried in decades of local disputes , some real , some imagined , and some steeped in the venom of over familiarity . |
| 13 | To the medieval historian who is invariably left with just the concluding record of administration procedure , this discussion on documenting the provenance of data generation may smack a little of over spoon-feeding the historian of the future . |
| 14 | As a result of over investment in the Japanese aphrodisiac market , the Maharajah fell upon hard times and suffered from a chronic liquidity crisis . |
| 15 | Within the United States the exchanges sometimes complain of over regulation by Federal agencies and excessive tax burdens . |
| 16 | And it is important that the west does not crush this African life-style with our selfish talk of over population . |
| 17 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 18 | The organisation of the exhibition , however , immediately poses questions , answers to which run the risk of over simplification simply because of the enormous time-span involved . |
| 19 | ‘ The question of whether a pleasure flight … could , or should , be removed from the definition of ‘ public transport ’ is more complex to review than the medical situation of over age sixty pilots … |
| 20 | Combining this effective barrier to virus movement with Slumberland 's unique Posture Springing system , has offered the hotel guest the hidden comfort of over double the number of essential supporting springs and the reassurance that their health and well being is being cared for . |
| 21 | Even when the system as a whole is , for example , under liquid , there will still be individual banks with over liquidity . |
| 22 | In this book the city is Tyneside and its environs by which is meant the areas of the four metropolitan districts of Newcastle , North Tyne side , Gates head and South Tyneside , together with over spill suburbs in South Northumberland and North Durham . |
| 23 | But there have been errors too , with Pilkington investing in foreign glass capacity during the 1980s , at the peak of a cycle which soon slumped , leaving the St Helens based group with over capacity just as the down turn arrived . |
| 24 | No numerical restriction on the number of licences in any particular area is allowed , however the section makes it a ground of refusal that the grant of the licence applied for would result in over provision of facilities of the kind to be provided under the licence . |
| 25 | I fancy it comes from over reading , so I do as little as I can . |
| 26 | We have too much hurrying about in these islands ; much for idle pleasure and more from over activity in the pursuit of wealth without regard to the good or happiness of others . |
| 27 | The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers . |
| 28 | That frigid little scene you treated me to over breakfast ? ’ |
| 29 | For a discussion of relevant considerations in relation to over provision , see Crolla v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1983 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 11 . |
| 30 | ‘ The truth is , ’ he admitted to Alan Griffiths , ‘ I have a constant temptation to over asperity … even when there is no subjective anger to prompt me : it comes , I think , from the pleasure of using the English language forcibly — i.e. it is not a species of Ira but of Superbia . |