Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] over the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years .
2 One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs .
3 Interactive Systems Corp — now SunSoft Inc — began by marketing the product strongly , but later faced a barrage of complaints and problems over speed and stability , and reportedly lost a great deal of money over the venture .
4 People had been staging revolutions without a great deal of success over the years and it was seventy percent of the people who were disadvantaged was n't it ?
5 Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years .
6 To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc .
7 There is a good deal of confusion over the use of concepts to analyse the institutions and processes of policy-making .
8 Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year .
9 Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks .
10 Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her .
11 The Bank of England has a great deal of power over the financial markets because of its role as lender of last resort .
12 The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence .
13 In conclusion , we believe that our study avoided the methodological and analytical problems of previous reports , which have given rise to a great deal of controversy over the efficacy of EFA supplementation in AD .
14 El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 .
15 Then he slides his saucepan of milk over the flame .
16 Witness the attempt to use the impeachment process against Lincoln 's successor , Andrew Johnson ; the defeat of Wilson over the Treaty of Versailles and the routing of his party in the 1920 election .
17 Seen from the outside the nature , and above all , the neck-breaking speed of achievements over the past two months may seem remarkable .
18 They have trained-in a succession of concepts over the years : decision making , then situational leadership , and then contingency theory .
19 Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players .
20 It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) .
21 Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century .
22 Codes of practice were supposed to protect the customer , by dangling the threat of expulsion and consequent loss of income over the practitioners .
23 The family 's loss of control over the youth is crucial to his development in sport , for , if there was a more balanced social management within the West Indian community , it is likely that the vibrance and energy expended in sport could be directed into more orthodox areas .
24 The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations .
25 But the price of obtaining the destruction of working-class power and organization was a loss of control over the state by the bourgeoisie and nobility .
26 Er w which in turn is is intended to minimize the loss of staff over the next two years .
27 Scientist Tom Clarkson said that there was a 50-60 percent loss of ozone over the Antarctic during the southern spring ( from September to November ) .
28 Relations improved with South Korea as a result of concessions over the treatment of the Korean minority within Japan , and Japan 's admission of guilt over its past treatment of Korea [ see p. 38623 ] .
29 Other accusations were the result of disputes over the ownership of animals .
30 This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading .
  Next page