Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . ) |
| 2 | Primarily used for transmitting data between computers over telephone lines . |
| 3 | A new political force emerged in late 1990 as a result of disagreements over policy and coalition alliances in Sicily . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia , Hungary at odds over dam |
| 6 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 7 | If the pond-building books fail to acknowledge Murphy 's Law , it is nowhere more evident than at the point where neat diagrams demonstrate the laying of slabs over flap of liner . |
| 8 | It can be seen that there is a wide range of statutory and semi-public bodies exercising a variety of controls over development in particular areas of the countryside . |
| 9 | Education provides two major areas for arguments over access to information . |
| 10 | One of the major advantages of letters over telephone conversations is that they provide a permanent record . |
| 11 | This will have a wide range of powers over health , education and housing and over significant aspects of industrial and economic policy ’ . |
| 12 | In recent months , after the computerisation of employment records , the service has been the focus of a wide range of stoppages over staffing . |
| 13 | Window with views over west Oxford , access to insulated part floored loft with drop down ladder , power point and light , fitted cupboards , radiator , power points , airing cupboard . |
| 14 | This argument was to be repeated in succeeding years during discussions over reform of the international monetary system , in which the United States consistently held that balance of payments targets should be defined in terms of current and capital account combined . |
| 15 | Austin Texas-based Alliance Technologies Inc will introduce TextMachine , a set of tools for indexing , storing and accessing large volumes of documents over client/server architectures . |
| 16 | But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT . |
| 17 | Indictment of congressman — Issuing of subpoenas over Post Office scandal |
| 18 | It will be noticed that the personal sector has a surplus of receipts over expenditure of £500 million , the public sector has a deficit of £1,500 million , the external sector has a surplus amounting to £1,000 million , and the industrial and commercial sector is in balance . |
| 19 | The division between incomers and Shetlanders in Dunrossness seems to have been an immediate product of conflicts over land and housing , a consequence of some residential patterns in the area , an outcome of changes in the accepted rules in the ‘ status game ’ and , perhaps , an inevitable result of policy predictions . |
| 20 | There were several attacks on women over Christmas . |
| 21 | The increasing numbers of colleges approaching the CNAA had to do in part with difficulties over validation by universities — particularly those which were unwilling or reluctant to validate honours degrees — and in part with the attraction of the CNAA as a validating body which could consider a range of courses , including those in the areas of proposed diversification . |
| 22 | There seem to be quite a few local authorities with difficulties over barrier designs , and certainly we , as cyclists , come across more ‘ bad ’ barriers ( require dismounting ) than good . |
| 23 | When we think about those questions of individ individuation in our normal affairs , the best we can do is to say that what individuates us and also what makes us the same person through changes over time , is a great medley of factors , some of which are bodily , some of which involve our souls |
| 24 | They may provide considerable scope for disputes over meaning . |
| 25 | To say anything sensible about ( d ) and ( c ) , substantial long-term studies of changes over time as well as in different places are called for . |
| 26 | In the chapter on evolution , Stuart rightly stresses the importance of a good stratigraphic and geographic record for studies of changes over time between species . |
| 27 | The number has increased gradually from 1,087,000 in 1968 , though natural increase ( excess of births over death ) accounted for more than half the rise in 1979-1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 28 | If , as seemed likely , one cause of unemployment was an excess of savings over investment , the equalisation of decisions to save and decisions to invest could be brought about by Labour 's plans for progressive taxation which would redistribute income to the poorer sections of society . |
| 29 | Changes in usage of terms over time can also present problems . |
| 30 | The Sun at odds with Saturn in Aquarius on the 8th should give you fair warning of conflict with others over home , family or professional matters . |