Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |
| 2 | This , he says , will be increased to £40m to allow for the insulation of 250,000 low income homes over the next year . |
| 3 | The Deserted Medieval Village Research Group ( now the Medieval Villages Research Group ) , which was formed in 1952 as a multi-disciplinary research body , drawing in geographers , historians , and archaeologists as well as natural scientists , has revolutionised our concepts of rural settlement changes over the last 2000 years . |
| 4 | Sadly , however , his delicate tidiness is wasted-the bin is a bottomless shell and the liquid vomit showers over the wall , on to his trousers . |
| 5 | She watched his tall figure stride over the marble floor . |
| 6 | At the same time he introduced progressive speed trials over the measured mile for all vessels built at the yard . |
| 7 | But the cost of conversion often pushed the total outlay way over the property 's market value . |
| 8 | Just before baking , brush with beaten egg and sprinkle some sesame seeds over the finished flaounes . |
| 9 | The firm emerges as Britain 's top performing company over the last five years . |
| 10 | Their resale potential is , however , undermined by their standardized production , and , although they will probably hold their value better than most Indian , Chinese , Pakistani or Balkan items , they are unlikely to develop high investment potential over the longer term . |
| 11 | She took his details , cleaned his face up and put a few butterfly plasters over the cut . |
| 12 | It all leaves an interesting question mark over the area so far as I am concerned . |
| 13 | A further question mark over the practices of multiculturalism concerns the actual effects of teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ . |
| 14 | It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 . |
| 15 | With an average of 10,000 tennis playing members in his clubs alone , Lloyd has hit upon the formula which by its very success , is speedily replacing the ‘ traditional ’ tag which had so burdened the British tennis club over the years . |
| 16 | Hung safety chains over the outgoing pipes here and at the upstream connection manhold . |
| 17 | Sun Microsystems Inc had to do something to prove it 's muscling into retail like Hewlett-Packard Co so it went and sold Dunkin' Donuts $8m worth of IPC machines to network more than half its 1,600 franchise operations over the next four years . |
| 18 | Data are not available about changes in socio-economic access to social security benefits over the years . |
| 19 | Peruvian jet aircraft on April 24 attacked an unarmed US C-130 transport plane over the Pacific ocean , wounding two of the 16 on board ; a third person was sucked out to his death before the damaged plane managed to land at Tara , 1,000 km north of Lima . |
| 20 | Run some aquarium sealant over the 6mm uncovered area around the backdrop thickly and evenly . |
| 21 | In any event adjustments are required where the cumulative inflation rate over the three years is approaching or exceeds 100 per cent and the operations in the hyper-inflationary economies are material to the group . |
| 22 | Some organisations reduce the level of the foreign service premium over the period that the employee spends abroad on the basis that he becomes increasingly accustomed to the life style as time progresses . |
| 23 | The company , which has developed its own original style of popular mask theatre over the past decade , can be seen at Darlington Arts Centre on Thursday , followed by Stockton 's Dovecot Arts Centre on Thursday and Friday . |
| 24 | THE Beatles are locked in a High Court battle over the rights to the cover of their album Sergeant Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band . |
| 25 | THE father of a two-year-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disorder must wait to learn whether he has won his High Court battle over the controversial closure of a London hospital 's bone marrow transplant unit . |
| 26 | And the government has lost a high court battle over the poll tax with one of the London charge capped councils ; the Court has upheld Lambeth Council 's decision to set the community charge at £521 rather than the £493 figure sought by the government . |
| 27 | He appealed unsuccessfully to the Privy Council , acting on behalf of the Queen , Bristol University 's Visitor , and a High Court judge over the university 's appeal procedures . |
| 28 | Today they were given approval to mount a High Court Challenge over the coroner 's conduct . |
| 29 | Because , you know , I 'd never been skiing before , so I went out all togged up , with like , my tights sort of , like , you know , thermal tights and you know , pair of track suits , sort of bottoms , plus plastic overtop and then I had like , sort of thermal top on , plus the that 's a sort of like , T-shirt , plus the polo-neck plus a jumper , plus a sort of like erm , a sort of sheepskin waistcoat and , and jacket and then this plastic thing over the top . |
| 30 | When looking at the changes in this offer probabilities over the assumed two period , notice that the former probability is a function of all variables , not just demand , that may affect the individual 's search intensity . |