Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [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 EC Commission President , Jacques Delors , is calling for closer European unity despite worries over the future of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter . |
| 5 | There was some confusion amongst respondents over whether the question related merely to the keeping of a copy of an undertaking on the relevant file , or to a central record of undertakings as intended in the paper . |
| 6 | Similarly , there has been some relaxation of restrictions over the formation of mixed and inter-professional practices . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By contrast , radical elite theory attacks pluralism ( and democratic elitism as well ) for disguising the degree to which existing arrangements do not implement feasible ideals of direct control by citizens over decisions affecting their lives . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions have taken place with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees over the last month . |
| 11 | There seems to have been no clear trend in earnings over the period up to the rapid triumph of machine spinning after 1800 ; in the West of England rates per pound of wool spun were only marginally higher in the 1770s than in the century 's first decade . |
| 12 | On the other hand , if a text shows a repeated preference for passives over actives , it is natural to consider this preference a feature of style . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 15 | And one detects some shaking of heads over the committee 's decision not to keep Mark Davies . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Secondary double glazed window with views over the golf course . |
| 20 | Any overall surplus of exports over imports would result from an excess of saving and a lack of consumption and investment within the economy . |
| 21 | In the preceding arguments I have deliberately used the term ‘ enterprise democracy ’ to refer to democratic control by workers over the enterprises which employ them , within the context of the socialist project . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 : |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But both could be ( confusingly ) described as average number of competitors over the same region as the intended word . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A key issue in relations with South Africa was the Namibian desire for negotiations over Walvis Bay , the South African enclave with important port facilities . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He said there had been a remarkable change in attitudes over the last few years in which those people still in work were determined not to give up their annual break , although they were being forced to cut down on other spending . |
| 30 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |