Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first signs of political discontent in England over the conduct of the war surfaced in the parliament of February 1371 , when the commons refused to grant a subsidy until the king 's clerical ministers of state had been replaced by laymen who , unlike their clerical counterparts , would be liable to answer for their misdeeds in the royal courts . |
| 2 | More than 130 people , mostly Egyptian militants and police , have died in political violence in Egypt over the last 14 months . |
| 3 | Draping a 3.5-dimensional colour-shaded perspective view of the magnetic field in colour over a relief representation of the Bouguer gravity anomalies shows correlations between high and low anomalies in the two fields . |
| 4 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 5 | Alsatian pet Lupa tucked into a hearty meal as thieves searched Gazza 's empty home in Rome over Christmas while he was in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear . |
| 6 | To understand the significance of these most recent changes , it is first necessary to review the main trends in social mobility in Britain over the past fifty years , before considering those developments that have become more marked since the mid-1970s . |
| 7 | And there 'll be playing for civic pride in Hereford over the coming week … more than a thousand sports men and women from Cheltenham , Worcester and Hereford are competing in 21 different sports in the annual ’ Sport for All ’ festival . |
| 8 | Belgian-born Dr Michel Pacque , who first carried out tests of ivermectin with workers in a rubber plantation in Liberia over several years , is now taking up an appointment as consultant for Sight Savers ( Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind ) in West Africa with the task of organizing regular supplies . |
| 9 | I join the House in expressing sympathy to the families who have been so griveously bereaved through this tragedy , a tragedy that has been the experience of so many of the British people in Ulster over the past 20 years . |
| 10 | German Greenpeace in row over funding |
| 11 | Amid growing public debate in France over the question of what to do with the country 's nuclear waste , a parliamentary report has called for major changes in the state nuclear waste agency , ANDRA ( Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I paid cash and drove away with a funny feeling in stomach over my decision , ’ Darren recalls . |
| 13 | There seems to have been no clear trend in earnings over the period up to the rapid triumph of machine spinning after 1800 ; in the West of England rates per pound of wool spun were only marginally higher in the 1770s than in the century 's first decade . |
| 14 | One of the most exciting developments in biology over the past few years has been the identification of the specific genes that allow some viruses to cause cancer . |
| 15 | It quickly outgrew its humble illegal origins to dominate social life in Britain over the last six months at least . |
| 16 | This delightful museum , set in a group of 17th Century cottages , presents a realistic glimpse of every day domestic and commercial life in Nottingham over the last 300 years . |
| 17 | The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism . |
| 18 | More than £4m has been spent on reclaiming derelict land in Darlington over the last ten years . |
| 19 | Destinations contains a marked increase in text over the two previous Streamline English coursebooks and some units are of two pages , reflecting students ' developing proficiency in the language . |
| 20 | Surveys carried out by the council and school children showq a marked increase in traffic over the last year . |
| 21 | As Table 4 indicates , substantial changes took place in the structure of residential services in Nottinghamshire over the period of the study . |
| 22 | They favoured ZOPFAN as the kind of indigenous initiative they had hoped to stimulate under the umbrella notion of collective security , but in the absence of clear agreement in ASEAN over neutralisation they were loath to become committed to a proposal which could be turned against themselves . |
| 23 | The most crucial change in emphasis over the past twenty years , and particularly over the past ten , has been the common rejection of any suggestion that poverty alone warranted social policy intervention based on state amelioration . |
| 24 | Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure . |
| 25 | However , in a few cases there were serious disputes in families over questions of inheritance , apparently always followed by very cool relationships between the parties , or ceasing contact altogether . |
| 26 | As a result , there was serious unrest in Poland over the summer and in Hungary Imre Nagy took steps to create a multi-party state and withdraw from the Warsaw Fact . |
| 27 | VERBAL fireworks in Liverpool over how government officials compile Bonfire Night injury figures have hit their target . |
| 28 | So while you can talk about the expansion of federal powers and the dominance of the national government in certain areas , it is but nothing compared to the dominance of central government in Britain over , over local government . |
| 29 | This became clear after parents began to ring Machester 's Picadilly Radio in protest over the song 's condemnation of their local school system . |
| 30 | They saw similarities with the Malaysian Bumiputra system by which ethnic Malays received preferential treatment in business over their Chinese compatriots . |