Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun pl] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was generally accepted , however , that the organization was in some disarray as a result of splits over revolutionary doctrine and personal leadership . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The proliferation of disputes over scarce water resources , particularly between states bordering the Nile , Euphrates and Jordan rivers , attests to the impact of resource depletion , as does the relationship between deforestation and desertification . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Its basis is systematic monitoring of the full complement of courses over this period , and its direct evaluation of some twenty-five of them . |
| 6 | Its organization was similar in that it was controlled by persons of relatively high social status , that ransoming was a major source of profit , and that the transporting of animals over long distances was usual when a payment was not forthcoming . |
| 7 | Notices may be entered on the Register of Title to protect a wide variety of interests — for example , an estate contract , a grant of easements over registered land , a lease or agreement for a lease which is not an overriding interest , and many other matters that it is desired shall come to the notice of all persons dealing with the land . |
| 8 | Another major advantage of bananas over other sweet foods is that they come in their own hermetically sealed biodegradable packaging — the ideal food for when you are on the move . |
| 9 | Therefore , Piaroa boys are not constrained into learning the aggressive stance of young warriors to fight men of this world ; they do not learn to accept the dominance relationships of groups of men over other groups of men . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is appropriate here to step back from the detail of party politics and to attempt to draw out in general terms the conditions producing this weakening hold of governments over popular support . |
| 12 | In the standard b -boundary construction , the Riemannian manifold is the bundle of frames over space-time having a positive definite metric induced by the affine connection . |
| 13 | Because the percentage of adults over that age , presumably doing full time A level courses |
| 14 | BRITISH Petroleum and Jet cut the price of petrol by up to 13.5p a gallon — 3p a litre — yesterday , ending a run of increases over recent months . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Chan , Chan and Karolyi ( 1991 ) found that the distribution of returns over five-minute intervals for S&P500 futures from 1984 to 1989 was leptokurtic with fat tails . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | An example of the objectionable content of the draft was the call for relaxation of controls over private sector housing : ‘ local authorities should not lay down requirements on the mix of house types , provision of garages , internal standards , sizes of private gardens , location of houses on plots and in relation to each other , provision of private open space . ’ |
| 21 | The town , sprawling along the side of Lake Managua , has only a handful of buildings over one storey and is without any identifiable centre . |
| 22 | The transport of sulphates over long distances can lead to reductions in visibility over extensive areas and at locations distant from pollution sources . |
| 23 | Safely out of the sight and sound of him , she gazed raptly at glossy brochures and debated the merits of sofa-beds over plain settees with all the enthusiasm Marie-Christine could have wished . |
| 24 | Déby had been Habré 's military commander and the architect of victories over Libyan forces in the 1986-87 war [ see pp. 34914-17 ; 35876-79 ; 36256 ] . |
| 25 | The evidence of hearths over tessellated pavements and trampled black earth accumulated over floors has often been interpreted as ‘ squatter occupation ’ , as if casual wanderers had found temporary refuge in the ruins of the buildings . |
| 26 | It is understood Cork is in dispute with a number of American firms of lawyers over unpaid fees , which the lawyers claim run into many millions of dollars . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It took an act of will to think of cool winds on hilltops or the pattern of water-shadows over wave-carved sand — things which I have always thought epitomise clarity and freshness and helped to divert my brain from dwelling on the contents of my stomach . |
| 29 | The multitudinous hazards that face their young — the predatory fish , the vagaries of the currents , the absence of islands over vast areas of the surrounding ocean — are met and ultimately defeated by sheer numbers . |
| 30 | A delegation of Indian officials headed by Foreign Secretary S. K. Singh arrived in Kathmandu on April 1 for a three-day round of talks over disputed issues between the two countries . |