Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the principles underlying it , despite short-term political bargaining over boundaries , were relatively simple , too : to have major services , councils had to have populations large enough to sustain an efficient delivery system ; to have strategic planning functions , still larger bodies were needed , to reflect the need to attract technically adequate staff and to interest political leaders of a sufficiently high calibre . |
| 2 | It also gives you the greatest possible control over costs , because your fuel , servicing and shop sales are centralised at our service station . |
| 3 | the operating priorities of a CMHT are set by manifest , but more importantly latent lines of local service policy ; without clear specifications as to the roles of team members , members will drift towards their common ground ; where team members have no actual or perceived authority to coordinate services , they will create their own service niche to fill ; where teams have little direct control over service resources , their own role will be limited to using their own personnel as resources . |
| 4 | Edinburgh survived a narrow 65-64 win over Bedford in their pool and went on to defeat surprise semi-finalists Heriot Watt 70-42 . |
| 5 | It was after a most emphatic 9–2 triumph over city rival , Stephen Murphy , that Ken pocketed the Irish title . |
| 6 | The inevitable conclusion which will be jumped to is that he is going because there is about to be some momentous U-turn over Maastricht now that Britain 's presidency of the EC is over . |
| 7 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |
| 8 | In view of the differences in the natures of their jobs and in their locations , and in view of the lack of any mention of a connection between the two men , it is not impossible to suppose that they held their offices contemporaneously , that while Molla Yegan held the office of Mufti In conjunction with his other offices in Bursa , perhaps even retaining some official precedence over Fahreddin Acemi , the latter was appointed to an entirely new office , the Mufti of the capital , which was then Edirne . |
| 9 | Drake can be told from all other waterfowl by conspicuous white stripe over eye and from all except Shoveler and Blue-winged Teal by blue-grey forewing . |
| 10 | SCOTT GIBBS became the British Lions ' latest casualty in the jinxed centre positions during a messy 34–16 victory over Southland today . |
| 11 | However , the bowling of the Springbok internationalist Meyrick Pringle , who also made 33 but was dropped by Russell when 3 , and Eric Simons — who was man of the match in Western Province 's exciting 20-run victory over Omar Henry 's Orange Free State on Wednesday evening — was very tight . |
| 12 | It would amount to another legal clash over allegations that a ‘ shoot to kill ’ policy has been in force against the IRA . |
| 13 | After rounds of 65 and 66 for a 13-under-par aggregate of 131 at Modena , Gilford holds a clear three-shot lead over Seve Ballesteros , Steve Richardson and Argentinian Jose Coceres going into today 's third round . |
| 14 | judgement was in favour of Aston Villa and it was not until fifty years later that a fresh legal challenge over contract terms was made , by George Eastham against Newcastle United . |
| 15 | This has never been carried out and Pakistan and India fought another indecisive war over Kashmir in 1965 . |
| 16 | The Home Office say they 're planning further legal action over Murder in Mind . |
| 17 | But no , she was sure it was Queen Victoria , personally , who had spread this grey fog over Britain from which we 've never recovered . |
| 18 | Some heavy rain over Scotland will move north , then becoming brighter with heavy showers . |
| 19 | Such candid consumerism made a refreshing change after the squeamish English double stand over money . |
| 20 | In effect , these internal stores integrate this small influx over time before periodically releasing the accumulated signal as a regenerative calcium spike . |
| 21 | The power that this greater control over technology gives men lies somewhere near the root of many of the problems which beset women both inside and outside the workplace , yet until recently it is a subject that has been strangely neglected . |
| 22 | ‘ You could throw someone off the Stoney Creek bridge — that 's a high curved bridge over Roger 's Pass . |
| 23 | You may cut a fine figure — ’ with an approving glance cast up and down his great-nephew 's fashionably tight-fitting blue coat over buckskins and top-boots ‘ — but an expensive young profligate is what you are , Dacre , and if this inheritance do n't come as a windfall you may call me a dunderhead ! ’ |
| 24 | Power steering is now standard , but it does nothing to blunt the feedback coming from front wheels to steering wheel : the old wrist-snapping kickback over bumps is largely eradicated but the important messages are translated as crisply as ever . |
| 25 | ‘ No , it 's all this wretched business over Dieter Erdle . |
| 26 | It was only after the mine was closed in 1979 that concern over pollution reappeared . |
| 27 | A few observers had already commented on the effectiveness of coaching for tests , a factor which was to lead to the first serious public disquiet over tests as measurement of innate , unalterable and asocial ability — although such comments were not yet thoroughly substantiated . |
| 28 | There 's been universal praise for Gloucestershire 's Emily Bond who 's reached tomorrow 's finals after an aggressive 6-3 6-1 win over Spaniard Eva Borras . |
| 29 | Standard serial communication over telephone lines is sufficient for remote capabilities . |
| 30 | ELM TREE recorded a splendid 3-0 victory over Custys Colts in the Scotland Road Junior League Under 11 S and D Shield semi-finals , Marsden ( 2 ) and Doyle scoring . |