Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | No protection exists for men over 65 or women over 60 or for persons over normal retiring age in a particular employment whether that age is more or less than the ages given above . |
| 2 | Lakes may take in water from many miles away that has percolated through the soil or through aquifers over decades . |
| 3 | Glass Reinforced Plastic otherwise known as GRP , or Glass Fibre , is available in solid rod , or as tubes over a broad range of sizes . |
| 4 | So , when the subject under debate is the country 's richest cultural jewel , feelings are likely to run at least as high as they did in Paris over the pyramid at the Louvre or in London over the National Gallery extension . |
| 5 | In normal or difficult market conditions , the agent is probably able to serve his client well by such introductions and contacts , particularly where the site will be sold by private treaty at a fixed price or by offers over a minimum sale figure . |
| 6 | The examples he provides , of " dribbling payments of a shilling or two " for house repairs , funerals , clothes , tools and medicines and for tiding over occasional hard times , can be multiplied from a number of local studies . |
| 7 | A total of 875 µg of somatostatin were administered before and after ERCP over a 150 minute period . |
| 8 | So spare a thought for their original research they speak with feeling of badly-signed junctions and of chaos over the A1 and its renaming round Tyneside . |
| 9 | In fact , in 1932–33 , without all the goals of the FFYP having been achieved , 6.7 million workers and employees were working in Soviet factories , an increase of more than 110% over that of 1928 , and of 65% over the planned number of workers ! |
| 10 | The ending of the monopoly of solicitors over house sales conveyancing and of opticians over the sale of spectacles has already been noted . |
| 11 | Government decisions , national and international , negotiations with producers over prices and with unions over wages , etc. , depend increasingly on such measures . |
| 12 | The details of this highly publicised scheme are well documented ( eg Challis , 1988 ) , its main features being : the employment of social workers as case managers , with case loads of 25 to 30 dependent elderly people , and with control over a decentralised budget to enable additional facilities or care ( in the shape of specially recruited local helpers ) to be purchased over and above the receipt of normal services . |
| 13 | On June 8 Andre Milongo was elected Prime Minister with the power to appoint members of the government and with control over the armed forces . |
| 14 | This finding argues for alternative programmes and measures for application among countries and within countries over time . |
| 15 | Weick ( 1985 ) says that , because people persist in simplifying the world , they do not see the differentiations between organizations and within organizations over time . |
| 16 | Some UK sewage farms have run off sludge gas for years , and in China over one million digesters produce methane from human and animal sewage to provide gas for cooking . |
| 17 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
| 18 | I would have thought that in many ways the divisions which exist in this country and in Europe over religious matters are not largely to do with our past . |
| 19 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 20 | Glass reckons he saw 100 people individually and in groups over a four or five month period . |
| 21 | The effects of this can be seen both in the current major reviews of BBC funding and in discussions over the future of Channel Four . |
| 22 | Walking silently and in stealth over the harsh grass I remembered all the things an English gentlewoman should n't do , and the thing my mother had done . |
| 23 | They can be used in summer on their own over a top sheet and in winter over a quilt or blanket . |
| 24 | In RENFE since 1976 and in BR over a far longer period , a wide range of agreements have been reached through the machinery , giving the unions influence over the determination of virtually all aspects of conditions of employment and work organization . |
| 25 | She has become a more equal partner in decision-making , in the enjoyment of sex , and in control over domestic resources . |
| 26 | The price of most commodities is determined by international economic developments and in markets over which most LDCs have no control . |
| 27 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
| 28 | So to what extent is juvenile violence a ‘ constant ’ varying only in style and in detail over time ? |
| 29 | Major and his Chinese counterpart , Li Peng , also made progress on setting up an independent court of appeal in Hong Kong , on the colony 's right to negotiate trade investment agreements , and on agreement over land controlled by the UK military . |
| 30 | Although this bone does not yield any absolute sexing criteria , it may be noted that the male clavicle is generally more robust and on average over 1 cm longer than the female ( Parsons , 1916 ) . |