Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players . |
| 2 | The project will examine the religious activities of women over an area of Northern Greece . |
| 3 | The introduction is an essay by Octavio Paz in which he stresses the isolation in which the civilisations of the Americas evolved ( as opposed to Europe with contacts from the East ) and he examines the reactions of Europeans over the years to Mexican art . |
| 4 | In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few . |
| 5 | Therefore , Piaroa boys are not constrained into learning the aggressive stance of young warriors to fight men of this world ; they do not learn to accept the dominance relationships of groups of men over other groups of men . |
| 6 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 7 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 8 | People also experience radically unequal patterns of earnings over the span of their working lives as employees . |
| 9 | The people over whom governments have authority , the kind of considerations which their instructions pre-empt and the areas of activities over which they have authority are all , to the extent that they are determined by the normal justification thesis , less extensive than the claims made by governments and by the law . |
| 10 | ONE of the great advantages of villages over cities for chronic insomniacs , such as I am , is that late at night there is nothing to do in a village except read . |
| 11 | One of the major advantages of letters over telephone conversations is that they provide a permanent record . |
| 12 | The key to minimizing the disadvantages and reaping the advantages of communications over the telephone is the way you behave . |
| 13 | Austin Texas-based Alliance Technologies Inc will introduce TextMachine , a set of tools for indexing , storing and accessing large volumes of documents over client/server architectures . |
| 14 | In all such matters the government is in a position comparable to that of every private individual who can by his actions affect the fortunes of others over whom he has no authority , and who may , within limits , force people to obey their moral duty when they incline not to do so . |
| 15 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 16 | Safely out of the sight and sound of him , she gazed raptly at glossy brochures and debated the merits of sofa-beds over plain settees with all the enthusiasm Marie-Christine could have wished . |
| 17 | Despite this minimal preparation , and regular changes of personnel over the past fortnight , they achieved a wholly implausible blend of skill , aggression and indomitable spirit . |
| 18 | To say anything sensible about ( d ) and ( c ) , substantial long-term studies of changes over time as well as in different places are called for . |
| 19 | In the chapter on evolution , Stuart rightly stresses the importance of a good stratigraphic and geographic record for studies of changes over time between species . |
| 20 | I 'm in floods of tears over nothing ! |
| 21 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |
| 22 | Will the Treasury provide guarantees of losses over the life of a franchise on , for example , rural or commuter routes ? |
| 23 | These amount to the rights of others over the owner 's land . |
| 24 | While a broad historical trend was noted towards the limitation of the once near-absolute rights of parents over children by state agencies , with the declared objective of protecting the child 's interests and welfare , it seemed that in recent policies a number of different themes could be identified , involving potentially conflicting values and assumptions about children , parents , the state and the rights and roles of different parties in the child care situation . |
| 25 | It is understood Cork is in dispute with a number of American firms of lawyers over unpaid fees , which the lawyers claim run into many millions of dollars . |
| 26 | A number of steps involving work on crystals , yeast cells , thymus cells and mouse cells , in relation to transmissions of patterns over a distance , led to amazing discoveries . |
| 27 | The stress on mineral extraction has left the settlers ( now almost 10 million as was estimated early in 1982 ) in effect abandoned , and their fate is reported in terms of disputes over land , the sowing of their land with weed seeds from the air and even the poisoning of their drinking water . |
| 28 | He 's sanctioned a request by Malvern Hills Council to create a 5 mile exclusion zone around the common , banning convoys of travellers over the coming Bank Holiday . |
| 29 | The results of this process can be read in detail in catalogues raisonnés , which often give a blow-by-blow account of the arguments of scholars over the years . |
| 30 | It is proposed to focus on insider dealing within financial conglomerates because of the probable extent of such trading , that is , the degree to which insider dealing probably occurs ; the damage it causes , both economically ( through the disruption of the efficient allocation of scarce economic resources ) , and socially ( through losses in public confidence in the operation of the financial markets ) ; and finally , the problem of detection ( self-evident from the low levels of prosecutions over recent years ) . |