Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Heseltine who 's MP for Henley , walked out of Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet as Defence Secretary over the Westland helicopters affair in January nineteen eighty six . |
| 2 | To apply paint over another , for instance detail over a washed background or ‘ filling ’ for an outline , again allow the paint to dry completely first . |
| 3 | An issue for research libraries over the next few years is to seize the opportunity offered by technology for enrichment of OPACs as electronic access tools . |
| 4 | Hybridization signals were quantified by densitometric scanning of these blots and levels of induction are expressed as fold increase over the signals in untreated controls . |
| 5 | The abolition of tax concessions for home owners over the next two years , along with continued falls in house prices , will trigger a stampede to rent , it says . |
| 6 | Figure 7.3 shows the values of figure 7.2 expressed as percentage change over the period 1961–81 . |
| 7 | Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture |
| 8 | The symbolic roles of political leaders preoccupied Pareto and Mosca , who characterized them in a persistently cynical way as outright manipulation or fraud , simple tricks essential to the maintenance of elite control over the mass . |
| 9 | Since a patient 's recall of drug history over the years is an unreliable measure for determining the extent of laxative abuse , we endeavoured to correlate the incidence of pseudomelanosis coli with the endoscopic diagnosis of colorectal diseases . |
| 10 | This , arguably , provides a diffuse but important form of decision control over the managers . |
| 11 | The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " . |
| 12 | It is important , too , that close attention is paid to image building ( e.g. banks and insurance companies must be seen to be stable , reliable institutions , but with a friendly , non-intimidating attitude — an image which banks in particular have spent a lot of money fostering over the past decade ) . |
| 13 | This involved setting targets each year for the growth of money supply over the following four years : the targets got progressively tighter over the four years , thus ‘ putting the squeeze on inflation ’ . |
| 14 | Given the close relationship between three month interbank rates and base rates , this provides a good guide to the money market 's expectation of the path of base rates over the next twelve months . |
| 15 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 16 | The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of , say , one to three years , selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period . |
| 17 | Given the halving of living standards over the past year , this was an even more remarkable result . |
| 18 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 19 | In a tank without undergravels you have a choice ; either sprinkle a thin layer of coral sand over the base , or leave it bare and let algae grow there , making it easier for cleaning . |
| 20 | There are a large number of research projects over a wide range of topics in health and health care : what health is and how it is to be valued , what influences health , the demand for and supply of health care , market equilibria and micro evaluation of treatments to system evaluation and the efficacy of planning , budgeting and monitoring mechanisms available to policy makers . |
| 21 | One on whom the sun played even through the bed of snow cloud over the roofs of the Administration block . |
| 22 | Low income families would be compensated by doubling the value of child benefit over the life of a parliament . |
| 23 | It is suggested that the revenue from fiscal drag , which currently goes in financing the inflation-proofing of personal tax allowances , and which under these proposals would no longer exist , should be used to finance the doubling of child benefit over the life of a parliament . |
| 24 | LANGLEY manager Vic Hillier is to resign at the end of the season amid question marks over the club 's future . |
| 25 | The American embassy in Seoul reviewed the history of guerrilla activity over the past few years in April 1950 . |
| 26 | Finally , the project measures changes in the level and sources of household income over the period and evaluates changes in government policy towards the rural poor . |
| 27 | The improvement in the speed and comfort of coach travel over the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was very striking , although overshadowed by the even more dramatic later impact of the railways . |
| 28 | We lobbied the British Board of Dream Classification over the blasphemy rulings . |
| 29 | The question which arose in those cases was whether the cessation of trade , in the sense of ‘ putting the shutters up , ’ immediately deprived the court of bankruptcy jurisdiction over the married woman , or whether it continued while the trade debts remained unpaid . |
| 30 | Fighting in the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has intensified meanwhile in the run-up to the latest round of peace talks over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh . |