Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been clear in his methods of training orchestras over long periods of time . |
| 2 | Too full to speak , Paige slid her arm about his waist and let the hovering waves of sleep drift over her . |
| 3 | He stood looking down at her and Maggie felt waves of anxiety wash over her . |
| 4 | Claims that unusually large numbers of cataracts , cancers and other eye diseases in sheep , cattle and rabbits in southern Chile are due to overexposure to ultraviolet radiation ( as a result of ozone depletion over Antarctica ) have been put into question by a study conducted by researchers from John Hopkins University and Chilean health and veterinary authorities . |
| 5 | Step forward trousers , whose sudden success is a direct result of designer indecision over skirt lengths . |
| 6 | The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of , say , one to three years , selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period . |
| 7 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 8 | Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture |
| 9 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 10 | Place a piece of cling film directly on top of the icing and another piece of cling film over the top of the bowl to prevent the icing from drying . |
| 11 | Imagine laying a piece of graph paper over an enlarged copy of a character and making a list of all the squares which it covers . |
| 12 | It may be that the Minoans enjoyed the social and diplomatic aspects of long-drawn-out negotiations over the price of a cargo with Egyptian , Cypriot , or Trojan merchants . |
| 13 | Shamir made his call in the light of Cabinet disagreements over a Police Ministry proposal to prevent all unmarried Palestinian men under the age of 30 from entering Israel . |
| 14 | The article was a review of process developments over the years and the way changing technology has impacted on fuel design . |
| 15 | The symbolic roles of political leaders preoccupied Pareto and Mosca , who characterized them in a persistently cynical way as outright manipulation or fraud , simple tricks essential to the maintenance of elite control over the mass . |
| 16 | This required two steps : the reimposition of state control over insurrectionist authorities such as the Committees of Public Safety ; and the restoration of a clear distinction between military and civilian spheres . |
| 17 | The general advantage of asset sales over share sales is that the purchaser can be selective as to which assets and liabilities he buys or assumes . |
| 18 | The Johnston and McClelland model therefore predicts that the advantage of word targets over letter targets will be the same with a backward mask which is a word , as with as backward mask consisting of a random sequence of letters . |
| 19 | Sarella felt a wave of nausea sweep over her . |
| 20 | Cursing himself for sounding so patronizing , Harry felt a wave of pity wash over him . |
| 21 | As Michael slipped on his overcoat Joe felt a wave of loneliness wash over him . |
| 22 | She peered out into the moonlit garden and felt a wave of desperation sweep over her . |
| 23 | She cried harder , feeling a wave of sickness wash over her . |
| 24 | Mindful of questions such as these , many Third World governments have tried to establish food policies in order to ensure an acceptable level of food security over the medium and long term . |
| 25 | We lobbied the British Board of Dream Classification over the blasphemy rulings . |
| 26 | Resignation of Health Minister over cholera epidemic |
| 27 | Urinary APGPR excretion was calculated as a product of the urinary concentration for a given sample and the volume/ hour of urine output over that sampling period . |
| 28 | Pensions Under Irish GAAP , the expected cost of providing pensions to employees is charged to the profit and loss account as incurred over the period of employment of pensionable employees , with any surplus or deficit of plan obligations over plan assets amortized to the income statement over the expected future service lives of the active employees , at a fixed proportion of pensionable pay . |
| 29 | Mossy Rooney , a man who , though he spoke little , noticed a lot , saw the look of relief pass over Benny Hogan 's face , as she was sent to bed with a hot-water bottle and a cup of hot milk . |
| 30 | She saw a look of surprise pass over his features . |