Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] over the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Figure 7.3 shows the values of figure 7.2 expressed as percentage change over the period 1961–81 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This , arguably , provides a diffuse but important form of decision control over the managers . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One on whom the sun played even through the bed of snow cloud over the roofs of the Administration block . |
| 13 | Low income families would be compensated by doubling the value of child benefit over the life of a parliament . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The American embassy in Seoul reviewed the history of guerrilla activity over the past few years in April 1950 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We lobbied the British Board of Dream Classification over the blasphemy rulings . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I am pleased to report further extensions of home care over the last year to meet the growing needs in Glasgow and also to cover a greater area of the South Coast and the East Midlands . |
| 21 | This ceramic could play an important part in the development of electrode technology over the coming years . |
| 22 | The customer 's prior written consent must also be obtained in the following circumstances : ( 1 ) Before the firm deposits collateral with , pledges , charges or grants of security arrangement over the collateral to a third party ; ( 2 ) If the firm reserves the right to return collateral other than the original collateral or original type of collateral . |
| 23 | Table 4.3 gives details of population change over the two decades for the twenty counties and Scottish regions which in 1981 had the lowest population densities ( i.e. were the most rural ) . |
| 24 | The House has been rightly concerned at the creeping extension of Community competence over the last few years . |
| 25 | Exxon Corporation , the multi-national oil giant , has agreed to pay up to $1,100 million ( $1.1 billion ) in an out of court settlement over the 1989 Valdez oil spill . |
| 26 | The out of court settlement over the 1989 Valdez oil spill , agreed by multi-national oil company Exxon , and the federal and Alaska state governments [ see ED nos. 45 and 46 ] , has been rejected by the Alaska House of Representatives . |
| 27 | Psychoanalytic theory has probably been the single most important theoretical influence on the discipline of Art History over the past decade . |
| 28 | Place a piece of cling film directly on top of the icing and another piece of cling film over the top of the bowl to prevent the icing from drying . |
| 29 | Add a length of plastic pipe over the top of the funnel so that it comes up to the top of the bottle . |
| 30 | The move , announced at a birds of a feather session at the recent Usenix conference in San Antonio , Texas , marks the end of one of the most influential strands in the development of Unix technology over the years . |