Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of over investment in the Japanese aphrodisiac market , the Maharajah fell upon hard times and suffered from a chronic liquidity crisis . |
| 2 | And it is important that the west does not crush this African life-style with our selfish talk of over population . |
| 3 | And possible harmful effects sink into the depths of the medical literature , such as : the serious condition of over stimulation of a woman 's ovaries and other adverse effects from the powerful drugs and hormones used on women in earlier fertility treatments , as well as for IVF now ; higher risks of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy and damage to women 's fertility from the invasive methods . |
| 4 | The British plan to over throw Mossadeq was put on hold until after General Eisenhowers inauguration in January 1953 . |
| 5 | But there have been errors too , with Pilkington investing in foreign glass capacity during the 1980s , at the peak of a cycle which soon slumped , leaving the St Helens based group with over capacity just as the down turn arrived . |
| 6 | His upset victory of over No. 15 ranked Magnus Gustafsson placed considerable pressure on Edberg and took a load of Nestor 's slender shoulders . |
| 7 | This election , is a clear choice between over spending , and over zealous ideas , resulting in an unnecessarily high Poll Tax being levied on us all by a Labour Council out of control , up to its eyes in debt , overspent and overstaffed — or a sane , reasonable planned Conservative Council of common sense . |
| 8 | The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers . |
| 9 | Women giving birth at over age 30 began to be regarded by the medical profession as something of a curiosity . |
| 10 | This can occur by a number of mechanisms , among them deactivation of platinum by over expression of thiols and thiol transferring enzymes , by alterations to transport mechanisms and by enhancement of DNA repair mechanisms that excise DNA platinum adducts ( 1 ) . |
| 11 | The organisation of the exhibition , however , immediately poses questions , answers to which run the risk of over simplification simply because of the enormous time-span involved . |
| 12 | Like all small-town rivalries in Scottish football , whether it be Airdrie and Hamilton or Ayr and Kilmarnock , the animosity between Dundee and St Johnstone is buried in decades of local disputes , some real , some imagined , and some steeped in the venom of over familiarity . |
| 13 | ‘ The question of whether a pleasure flight … could , or should , be removed from the definition of ‘ public transport ’ is more complex to review than the medical situation of over age sixty pilots … |
| 14 | For a discussion of relevant considerations in relation to over provision , see Crolla v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1983 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 11 . |
| 15 | It is overlain with a more detailed pattern reflecting the location of over spill estates , which will be described in Chapter 6 . |
| 16 | The introduction of the idea of over spill raises issues of change . |
| 17 | One of the hypothesis which could be proposed , attributes the lack of modification in mitochondrial genome expression to over expression of the intact genome population , or to a substantial increase in the overall concentration of mitochondrial genomes per nuclear genome ( therefore in the intact mitochondrial genome concentration ) . |
| 18 | It is also important to get the right balance between over concern and lack of care . |
| 19 | Combining this effective barrier to virus movement with Slumberland 's unique Posture Springing system , has offered the hotel guest the hidden comfort of over double the number of essential supporting springs and the reassurance that their health and well being is being cared for . |
| 20 | You can sit out on the terrace to enjoy your meal which is buffet style offering a wide choice of menu and a temptation to over indulgence . |
| 21 | ‘ The truth is , ’ he admitted to Alan Griffiths , ‘ I have a constant temptation to over asperity … even when there is no subjective anger to prompt me : it comes , I think , from the pleasure of using the English language forcibly — i.e. it is not a species of Ira but of Superbia . |