Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 30-nation talks in Geneva failed to bridge the gap between countries such as Germany and the Nordic states , which are seeking a 79 per cent cut in emissions by the end of the decade , and those like the UK and France which want a lower level of cuts over a longer period . |
| 2 | The plants here have a dense but high canopy of leaves over them during the summer ; so , apart from the odd shaft of sunlight , the conditions are overcast but not dark . |
| 3 | Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter . |
| 4 | Similarly , there has been some relaxation of restrictions over the formation of mixed and inter-professional practices . |
| 5 | Fairbrother yelled , ‘ Goodbye , Toady ! ’ after the Murrays ' car , and crowed loudly with his diminishing circle of admirers over his enemies ' downfall , thereby reducing his popularity still further . |
| 6 | Although the shareholders no longer exercised the direct control of principals over the directors as their agents , the model nevertheless asserts that any danger that the directors might use their considerable discretionary powers to manage the business in their own interest is precluded . |
| 7 | Each judge will submit a completed list of nominations over the next couple of weeks and the eventual winners will be presented with their awards at a special ceremony early in the new year . |
| 8 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 9 | And one detects some shaking of heads over the committee 's decision not to keep Mark Davies . |
| 10 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 11 | There can be little doubt that the orcs entered Middle-earth originally just because the story needed a continual supply of enemies over whom one need feel no compunction- ‘ the infantry of the old war ’ , to use Tolkien 's phrase from ‘ Monsters ’ ( p. 264 ) . |
| 12 | By using the dichotomy between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ , the Wolfenden Committee was able to propose an extended series of controls over prostitutes , particularly over those who were highly visible , although the law — the Street Offences Act 1959 — in practice has also been extended to other less visible sectors of prostitution . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Frightened off by such high figures , many collectors renounce the attempt to assemble a complete range of bindings over the centuries and , sensibly , turn to more limited fields ; for example , to books stamped with the coats of arms or crests of early owners in gilt or ‘ blind ’ ( without gold or colour ) . |
| 15 | Any overall surplus of exports over imports would result from an excess of saving and a lack of consumption and investment within the economy . |
| 16 | the average number of customers over the week ( add each day 's total customers together , then divide that total by the number of days in the working week ) . |
| 17 | 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 : |
| 18 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |
| 19 | But both could be ( confusingly ) described as average number of competitors over the same region as the intended word . |
| 20 | has said about most cases being unfounded though Mr McPhee does say that they ( the travellers ) do not stay on permanent sites whereas there has been a constant settlement of varying numbers of caravans over the past two years . |
| 21 | " Our objective is to test the law on the system of consents , by which companies are allowed to discharge limited amounts of pollutants over the course of a year " , explained a Greenpeace spokeswoman , Debbie Adams . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 24 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | With the introduction of general management , an attempt has been made to address the clinician-management interface directly and to challenge formally , at least in theory , the tight grip of doctors over the NHS as an organisation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The giant ground sloths and armadillos of the past were clearly South American in character , showing that this continent had been populated by unique families of animals over a vast period of time . |
| 29 | We have however entered a large number of competitions over the years : the FA Cup , FA Vase , County Shield , Debenhams Floodlit Cup and the Sherpa Tensing Van Trophy to name but a few . |
| 30 | Bourdieu , though less witty and stylish , achieves a large number of advances over Veblen 's account in terms of the sophistication of his analysis and his ability to move this critique away from the characterization of a particular segment of the population to the analysis of French society as a whole , and from simple emulation and display to complex forces of strategy and social reproduction . |