Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policy changes in the 1970s moved the provision for people over retirement age towards a wholly wage-related scheme of insurance . |
| 2 | Another trial in 97 patients showed an advantage for surgery over radiotherapy in forestalling the appearance of distant metastases over five years . |
| 3 | ( Totally homogenous capital and labour markets ; constant returns to scale over all ranges of output ; marginal productivity pricing for all factors ; continuously variable relationships between factors over time ; land as an insignificant input . ) |
| 4 | Primarily used for transmitting data between computers over telephone lines . |
| 5 | Gravel for use over undergravel filter plates comes in a very wide choice of materials and sizes , often having a high price to match . |
| 6 | Erm so you would have done er yeah then you 've got You 've got your speed of distance over time correctly . |
| 7 | A new political force emerged in late 1990 as a result of disagreements over policy and coalition alliances in Sicily . |
| 8 | A further twenty-four lots were withdrawn as a result of uncertainty over ownership . |
| 9 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 10 | The study of recall over time has been used to find whether there are separate system underlying short-term and long-term memory or only one system functioning at different levels ( Baddeley , 1976 ) . |
| 11 | Southern counties , although rather cloudy , will be mainly dry , except for outbreaks of drizzle over south-west England and South Wales . |
| 12 | Phonocentricism consists in a privileging of speech over writing . |
| 13 | However , in addition to providing information about the child , an indication of change over time may also be helpful in evaluating the success of previous attempts at remedial intervention . |
| 14 | But correct as the analysis may be it is limited to pragmatic instrumentalist legal theory , and the prescription fails to take account of social theories which may help to explain the changes in the rule of law over time . |
| 15 | There is an additional complication to this picture which is the increasing effect of demand over time . |
| 16 | The National Union of Women Workers , NUWW ( a philanthropic offshoot of Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls formed in 1895 ) , launched a fresh assault on the conspiracy of silence over incest at their annual conference in 1906 . |
| 17 | But finally there was a victory , a quiet one in his own breast , and something like the elevation of disdain over stupidity and meanness , and rest after the long battle . |
| 18 | There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia . |
| 19 | Mr Fallon , the Schools Minister , hopes he has finally ended months of controversy over Government funding of building work at St Bede 's and St Augustine 's RC primary schools . |
| 20 | In oral as well as in literate culture , it would appear that there are techniques whereby the directness and immediacy of everyday experience are contrasted with the holding of traditions over time , and with the ‘ fixing ’ and ratifying of definitions and meanings . |
| 21 | Rift with Israel over arrest of alleged spy ring |
| 22 | Grant denies rift with Brady over boardroom leak |
| 23 | Candidates in wrangle over training funds Darlington training groups could be forced to pull out of a government scheme because of a lack of funds , the town 's Labour 's candidate predicted this week . |
| 24 | Rangers have still received no reply from Marseille over ticket and security arrangements for the crucial European Champions League clash in France on 7 April . |
| 25 | Rainforest negotiations reach impasse in deadlock over debt |
| 26 | Specific topics of interest are the impact of collective agreements on pay in Northern Ireland , and the composition of the workforce ( ie occupation/industry/sex/part-time or full-time nature of the workforce ) and its effect on pay over time . |
| 27 | Shedding some light on protest over VAT on fuel . |
| 28 | Czechoslovakia , Hungary at odds over dam |
| 29 | Drug suicide bid by Bardot over animal cruelty |
| 30 | Also , some appear suddenly ( like a visitation ) , others build up gradually , piece by piece over time in an incremental process . |