Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their performance against Rangers was inexplicable and one can not believe that the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders , which lasted eight hours on the day before the match , with bickerings between cabals of directors over the club 's future , had no effect on the players . |
| 2 | Secondary education , mainly in schools now known as grammar schools , was available nationally for 20% of children over the age of eleven , with pronounced regional variations . |
| 3 | The branch secretary , Kathleen McAlorum , a Motherwell district councillor , said that an emergency meeting of the branch executive had been called last Sunday after complaints and threats of resignation from members over the deal for representation on the European committee of the regions . |
| 4 | In just the same way , evolution consists of genes spreading at each other 's expense , but many , perhaps most , genetic mechanisms are about enforcing common interest of groups of genes over the selfish ambitions of the few . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Amongst the major achievements of the century in group theory one must mention the modular representation theory of groups by matrices over finite fields as pioneered by Richard Brauer and the subsequent use of this theory in investigations into finite simple groups ( Section 6.6 ) . |
| 7 | Two-term double modules are used mostly in humanities and social sciences and give longer periods of study for students over broader subject areas . |
| 8 | The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year . |
| 9 | Drape the triangle of fabric in folds over the curtains and pole . |
| 10 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 11 | During the ownership of the Pachta family of Rajov , the stucco busts of Maria Theresa and Franz of Lorraine in medallions over the first-floor windows were added . |
| 12 | Imported raw cotton was the basis for the emergence of the most dynamic of the " new " manufactures , but as late as 1776 Adam Smith omitted cotton goods from his argument for a sustained expansion and downward spread of consumption of non-essentials over the " course of the present century " , and still found examples enough for his purpose . |
| 13 | One consequence of this has been a distrust of geometric intuition and the downgrading of geometry by educationalists over the past 50 years or so . |
| 14 | Indeed there are even differences of opinion among environmentalists over how this increasing demand upon the countryside is to be accommodated . |
| 15 | The figures in Table 5.1 are from cross-sectional data , obtained in 1980 , and could therefore be misleading as indicators of changes in households over time . |
| 16 | The Sun at odds with Saturn in Aquarius on the 8th should give you fair warning of conflict with others over home , family or professional matters . |
| 17 | Technological innovation is the source of many manufacturing processes which produce harmful pollutants , of products which cause great harm in themselves and of processes which permit immense powers of control by governments over individuals . |
| 18 | There followed two hours of arguments between protestors over what they should accept as sufficient for leaving . |
| 19 | The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) . |
| 20 | We have the feeling of participation in events over which , for the most part , we have in fact very little , if any , control . |
| 21 | The offeror 's directors subsequently felt unable to continue to recommend the offer to its shareholders because of differences in expectations over the combined group 's financing , and the offer was withdrawn with the consent of the target and the Panel . |
| 22 | Most conflict in groups occurs because of differences among members over goals , attitudes or feelings . |
| 23 | I am aware , however , that surveying techniques of the last 150 years have been to standards of accuracy of centimetres over the same sort of distance and landscape . |
| 24 | If one simply looks at the level of unemployment amongst architects over time , it is difficult to identify a clear pattern linked to any of the regulatory reforms . |
| 25 | There has been a 30–40 per cent reduction in the amount of fat on pigs over the last 10 years , ’ says Professor James . |
| 26 | A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Oct. 2 that Russia would press ahead with the sale of diesel submarines to Iran despite reports of difficulties over payments [ see p. 39122 ] . |
| 27 | The rest of the conference was humming with the anticipated controversy over sado-masochism , and with the anger of women with disabilities over non-accessibility to the venue and to the discussion papers . |
| 28 | More importantly , recent research reveals a major lack of consensus among politicians over the basic role of government in the economy [ Harris , 1981 ] . |
| 29 | It came about through changes of agreement amongst speakers over the course of time involving greater and greater consensus on open /α : / as the appropriate realization , and it is not fully explainable in purely linguistic terms . |
| 30 | Reanalysis of data published in the childhood supplement of the registrar general 's decennial supplement on occupational mortality in England and Wales , which compares numerator data for registrations of deaths in children over the age of 1 but below their 16th birthday in 1979 , 1980 , 1982 , and 1983 with data about children aged 1–15 who were enumerated at the 1981 census . |