Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] over [det] " in BNC.

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1 There is a good deal of controversy over this issue .
2 So whatever the numerical distribution of jobs or of unemployment , the tentacles of control over those jobs , and over the functioning of the economy as a whole , in the main lead back — if they stay within Britain at all — to London .
3 Such economies of scale must be distinguished from savings through fuller utilization of existing capacity , which spreads the fixed costs of a specific existing piece of plant over more units .
4 Configured like the reticulated rib-cage of some enormous alien creature , long dead and looming over them , the vault appeared not to have been carved but rather rubbed into shape painstakingly , no doubt by the labour of slaves over many decades , millennia earlier .
5 There is no doubt that the effect of GATT over most of the postwar years has been to remove some of the protection afforded to national markets .
6 For a variety of reasons Stalin rejected a ‘ Finnish ’ solution in Eastern Europe in preference to a security formula based on ideological conformity and the maintenance of control over these countries ' internal as well as external policies .
7 This change of outlook was the result of a fusing of perceptions over some years about the character and behaviour of the West Indians as partners in the project of amelioration and gradual emancipation .
8 Its basis is systematic monitoring of the full complement of courses over this period , and its direct evaluation of some twenty-five of them .
9 It is known as ‘ The Key of England ’ , having guarded this vulnerable coast against invasion over many centuries .
10 ANIMALS in dispute over some valuable resource , like food or mates , should behave like rational humans playing games , John Maynard smith of the University of Sussex first suggested in the early 1970s .
11 Lay one of the long strips of cardboard over this join and staple through card and fabric on to the batten .
12 New survey data often record personal biographies and provide a continuous record of the economic activities of people over several years .
13 I think we ought to put a bit of sellotape over that one .
14 It is not about the promotion of one particular kind of experience over another , for this only creates the kinds of divisions so obvious in the political and religious systems of today .
15 The shire and hundred meetings may have been able to exercise some kind of control over this , although a king who allowed himself and his servants too much leeway would have been difficult to oppose directly .
16 If the headache is continuous with no signs of improvement over several days even if the headache is mild .
17 Indeed Fothergill and Gudgin ( 1982 ) argue that this urban-rural shift was the main component of change over those years ( more important , that is , than changes in balance between regions ) .
18 In comparison , doctors in the hospital sector had a much greater measure of influence over these issues , but because of the combination of bureaucratic and collegial control , relatively less freedom over their own work practices .
19 However , this extension of the welfare state was double-edged , because as well as offering services it also involved a measure of control over those who were the recipients of those services .
20 If however support is evenly spread throughout a country or province but is insufficient in any one constituency to reach this threshold , a party may achieve a small but respectable proportion of votes over all constituencies without securing a seat .
21 It was explained that this was because the company was perpetually producing new products with life-cycles of two to four years and that the product mixes over the narrow product range in current production were largely set by the available type of capacity over such periods .
22 The research should contribute not only to knowledge about the degree and type of control over this area of professional practice but also provide information on aspects of general medical services which have given cause for complaint .
23 It was by such means — both ‘ feudal ’ and non-feudal — that the house of Foix-Béarn exercised some degree of control over those members of the Gascon nobility whose lordships lay outside their own domains .
24 Dish , dish of water over that 'll do .
25 Because the percentage of adults over that age , presumably doing full time A level courses
26 Perhaps the main question is whether the market in its present state can absorb such a wealth of material over such a short period .
27 In order to engage in comparisons over time we were faced with a dilemma stemming from the change in the range of newspapers over this period .
28 Social and economic relations were modified in a whole range of ways over this period , some of them to the advantage of the working class .
29 In due course , after the ties that bound nobles and peasants had been finally severed , they were to become elective Justices of the Peace with jurisdiction over all estates of the realm .
30 It was not only physical wounds that left scars ; damage to the mind could throb and fester in secret over many years , and some flash of memory could trigger unexpected , possibly violent reactions .
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