Example sentences of "[subord] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is the strong poverty trap , where over a range of earned income disposable income actually falls as earned income rises . |
| 2 | The employers acknowledged that if over a period profits should rise more than incomes , the balance should be redressed by taxation policy . |
| 3 | Better try something else , then ; and here it is , in the shape of the third proposition : ‘ if over a period profits should rise more than incomes , the balance should be redressed by taxation policy ’ . |
| 4 | It did n't worry him , because over a distance the soft-nosed rounds would break up on entry and be considerably more destructive , splattering meat in exactly the same way as a hard point carved into an illegal dum-dum . |
| 5 | Note that the products and are not maximized where and are maximized , because over a range a bigger share of a smaller income will represent a higher total tax revenue than a smaller share of a larger income . |
| 6 | The purpose of an underlay ( or padding ) is to protect the rug from being squeezed between two hard surfaces , because over a period of time this kind of pressure can damage the fibres . |
| 7 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's an international career coming to a close and one that people have been full of admiration for for over a decade . ’ |
| 9 | As well as over a bath , a shower can be fitted into a purpose-made cubicle ( which sometimes comes with the shower valve already fitted ) , or into a combination of side screens , shower doors and partition walls . |
| 10 | An innkeeper , as we have seen , is under a duty to provide reasonable refreshment if so required and accommodation to a traveller ; hence , the innkeeper has a right of lien over a traveller 's property as well as over a guests ' to ensure that the traveller 's bill is duly paid . |
| 11 | It also said it will market versions of Visualisation Data Explorer software for Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Silicon Graphics Inc workstations as well as for the RS/6000 , and will run stand-alone on the alien workstations as well as over a network accessing the server . |