Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] over [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Its basis is systematic monitoring of the full complement of courses over this period , and its direct evaluation of some twenty-five of them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Because the percentage of adults over that age , presumably doing full time A level courses |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He proposed that the assumed uniform distribution of forces over any section within the specimen was a limiting state to which the forces in the real specimen approached , the further away from the extremities was the section under consideration . |
| 9 | The Lockwood Parish Map created by a band of workers over several years in East Cleveland has been packed off to Milton Keynes where it will be on display when the Queen commemorates the 25th anniversary of the new town on March 13 . |
| 10 | It lives in large groups alongside rivers over much of South America . |
| 11 | Overnight stayers at the Parkside pit camp get priority for drinks over those who have woken at 5am or earlier to register their protest before they carry on to work . |
| 12 | As was noted above , however much one may value identification with one 's community , since it can be expressed by other means than respect for law it can not be a foundation of an obligation to respect the law , nor a basis for the general authority of governments over all their subjects . |
| 13 | Even if the other district had its own system , it was unlikely that there was much communication between the two sets of officials over such matters . |
| 14 | ‘ His victory represents a triumph for those whose priority is care for patients over those whose first care is for balance sheets . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I had to go up to Clapton yesterday and haggle with Antinou for hours over that bloody Egyptian cotton . |
| 16 | Marriages of persons over that age , but under 18 , are completely valid ; and the only check on such marriages without the consent of parents or guardians is the difficulty of getting them celebrated by the clergyman or proper officer without making a false declaration , which involves penal consequences . |
| 17 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 18 | He had administered the fumes to a number of women over several years with no side-effects . |
| 19 | But Bourdieu 's notion of structure ( partly because it includes agency ) in modernity has a number of advantages over these other analysts . |
| 20 | Take the 7th root of the average number of paths through our mid class utterances in order to estimate the average number of words over each region of the intended word : |
| 21 | I 'm very hopeful because er , Vietnam since nineteen eighty six has been under a process of economic and political reform , and they have released er a large amount of prisoners over this time , and there are still a number of prisoners , such as poets er religious people that are still in prison , who are hoping that , with their renewed effort and attention from the media , this 'll er be changed . |
| 22 | I suppose in the nineteen fifties we all thought that was the answer to energy production , but there seem to have been a lot of problems over these since then . |
| 23 | I fall out with a lot of photographers over this . |
| 24 | As can be imagined , trying to obtain reasonable samples of the general population for relatively short interviews on such topics as voting behaviour or food preferences can result in a lot of interviewers having to call at a lot of houses over all towns and cities in the country . |
| 25 | The growth of beliefs over many centuries , during which new ideas were added to earlier ones but nothing was ever discarded , resulted in what appears to be a mass of confusing and sometimes contradictory elements . |
| 26 | The Gulf International Bank estimated that oil earnings had risen by 63 per cent in 1990 to $41,300 million , a $16,000 million increase in revenues over those for 1989 , and compared with a budgeted 1990 figure of $31,500 million . |
| 27 | In the event of a dispute between Programmers over any matter arising under or in connection with this Agreement , then ( after full discussion with the Programmers ) the opinion of the Publisher shall prevail . |
| 28 | In the event of a dispute between Programmers over any matter arising under or in connection with this Agreement , then ( after full discussion with the Programmers ) the opinion of the Publisher shall prevail . |
| 29 | The dazzle effect of grids can be subdued by establishing a hierarchy of one set of parallels over another . |