Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | New survey data often record personal biographies and provide a continuous record of the economic activities of people over several years . |
| 2 | But acceptance of this argument involves acceptance of the superiority of the higher , impersonal level of truth over the lower personal level of truth and the acknowledgment of two levels of knowledge . |
| 3 | It is important that the purpose of this criticism should not be misunderstood ; the theoretical and experimental contributions that the Aplysia group have made to the cellular study of memory over the past two decades have been substantial , but the very intellectual certainty of the group and the charisma of its leader have tended to suppress some of its problems and sideline those who have articulated them . |
| 4 | Her clashes with other European heads of state over Britain 's budgetary contribution to the Community aroused all her basic emotions : here , indeed , she had strong support in Britain itself where sympathy for the bureaucrats of Brussels , with their butter mountains and wine lakes , was distinctly muted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Section 40(1) of the Patents Act 1977 permits an employee inventor to apply to either tribunal for a single or periodic award of compensation over and above the salary he is already earning . |
| 7 | Firms with a sustained high level of exports over a longer period may provide further figures for consideration as a consistent exporter . |
| 8 | In the 1980s , the tendency for political power to be concentrated at the centre has been carried a stage further by a prime minister sufficiently determined and resourceful to achieve a high level of dominance over her cabinet colleagues . |
| 9 | This gave a k value of 0.72 , which shows a very high level of agreement over the six categories . |
| 10 | He subsequently concluded that , in spite of his own intentions , it was still too deeply coloured by the thought of Kierkegaard and Heidegger , that it gave faith a wrong kind of priority over revelation in the arrangement of its material , and that its account of faith was more Existentialist than Christian . |
| 11 | One of the dominant social characteristics of Britain over the past fifty years has been the degree of upward social mobility of those whose parents held traditional working-class jobs . |
| 12 | She held an old piece of cloth over them both to keep the rain off . |
| 13 | KABUL — Fifteen mujahedin rockets slammed into residential areas of Kabul over the weekend , killing 10 people and wounding 27 , writes Ahmed Rashid . |
| 14 | For any type of policy to be successful both of these conditions need to be satisfied or else the policy instruments under consideration will fail to give an adequate degree of control over macroeconomic objectives . |
| 15 | The Orbital 's two-phase ( air blast ) direct injection fuelling system , which adds a finely atomised fuel charge to the cylinder only after the exhaust port has been covered , eliminates the economy and emissions problems of old while providing a high degree of control over charge stratification . |
| 16 | Chomsky points out that the principles of operant conditioning were originally derived from experimental studies of animals , in which the ex-perimenter could achieve a very high degree of control over variables which were presumed to influence behaviour . |
| 17 | This has the advantage of establishing a high degree of control over the target utterance and , if the child is co-operating , it is possible to make a direct comparison between the utterance the child was attempting to produce and what the child actually said . |
| 18 | The main advantage of elicitation procedures is that they give a relatively high degree of control over areas of linguistic ability which are being assessed . |
| 19 | At one extreme lie true experimental procedures , which demand a high degree of control over possible confounding factors . |
| 20 | This diffuseness was paralleled by a marked degree of confusion over the appropriate research methods to use in empirical studies . |
| 21 | To ensure that the Bank can maintain an acceptable degree of influence over short-term rates , the monetary control regulations introduced in 1981 required that banks maintain with the discount market funds equal to a daily minimum of 4 per cent and a monthly average of 6 per cent of their ‘ eligible ’ liabilities . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The presence of incomers was presented as the most immediate and tangible aspect of the general threat to the Shetland ‘ Way of Life ’ Although Shetland is reputed to be something of a melting pot , given the many different influxes of people over the centuries ( one native council official saw the typical Shetlanders as a bit of a ‘ mongrel ’ ) , these incomers were presumed to be somewhat different : most of them are here because their jobs brought them here ( those who are not here because of their jobs are eccentric ! ) , their stay will be temporary , there are more of them , they represent mainstream and hence dominant ways of life , they regard Shetlanders as peasants or country hicks . |
| 24 | As a rounded account of the rise of Saddam it has one serious failing in that it pays far too little attention to the economic and social development of Iraq over the past 20 years . |
| 25 | It is through the implementation of this agreed machinery that disciplinary tribunals and the Inns themselves , with the consent of the Lord Chief Justice , are now able to exercise extended powers of control over the professional conduct of barristers , with a wider range of penalties , but subject always , in the case of decisions by tribunals , to a right of appeal to the visitors : see Disciplinary Tribunal Regulations 1990 , regulations 22 and 30 . |
| 26 | In the USA , for example , a large number of days may be lost in an industry while new productivity deals are being negotiated ; the immediate loss of production is just part of the price paid for high levels of output over the longer run . |
| 27 | High levels of uranium over granites such as Cairngorm and Mount Battock argue against using the granites in the interior of buildings on account of the risk of radon gas emanation . |
| 28 | High levels of uranium over the geochemically evolved granites such as Cairngorm and Mount Battock argue against using the granites as building stone for internal cladding on account of the potential risk of radon gas emanation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Placings were the most popular method of issue over 1985–89 , although the average size at £6m was considerably smaller than offers for sale and tenders at £62.3 and £32.8 million respectively , reflecting the fact that smaller companies tend to go for placings as they tend to be cheaper ( see Table 11.2 ) and placings have also become more popular as a result of the requirements for the size of company using a placing being relaxed after Big Bang . |