Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months . |
| 7 | He was plastering wet threads of hair over a balding pate , and there was a look of alarm in those magnified eyes . |
| 8 | that different actors have different degrees of power over the creation of media content . |
| 9 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 10 | In spite of the millions of words they contain , and some noticeable shifts of emphasis over the years , the volumes of the Church Dogmatics are marked by an immense overall coherence and harmony . |
| 11 | A central theme is that the ‘ transmission ’ of state objectives to the enterprises is problematic , and that this gives rise to typical patterns of negotiation over changes in business strategy and in industrial relations . |
| 12 | Spread a few tiny knobs of butter over the surface , heat in a moderate oven , gas no. 4 , 350°F. , for about 20 minutes , until the sauce is just faintly golden and bubbling . |
| 13 | The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister of Karnataka , S. Bangarappa , resigned on Nov. 11 following allegations of corruption over several months ; he was replaced on Nov. 20 by the former state Education Minister Veerappa Moily . |
| 14 | Average rates of return over the whole period were : ICI — HC 15% , CPP 1 ½%; GEC — HC 19% , CPP 10 ½%.; e |
| 15 | By way of illustration the following table shows what £1000 will be worth in today 's money at the end of the periods shown , if annual rates of inflation over the period are as shown . |
| 16 | The protracted and divisive negotiations between Bush and the Democratic leaders of Congress over the budget for the fiscal year 1991 ( beginning on Oct. 1 , 1990 ) was an important domestic issue in 1990 . |
| 17 | During the early stages of mastery over language , children interpret and act upon verbal messages despite their ignorance of the meaning of many of the units and structures of the language used . |
| 18 | Deaf education has been associated with a great deal of dogma which has had varying degrees of influence over the years . |
| 19 | There have been numerous examples of varying degrees of seriousness over the years . |
| 20 | This is a large élite as élites go , conscious of its privileges and its place , and possessing real instruments of power over those who would challenge it . |
| 21 | Machismo is an exaggerated cult of virility which expresses itself in male assertions of superiority over females , and competition between men . |
| 22 | Forest Goblins wear warpaint in broad bands of colour over their bodies . |
| 23 | Some 36 years later he and his wife — the Club 's Stewardess — retired and not surprisingly , in view of their combined years of work over some extraordinarily difficult years , the Club paid special regard to their retirement needs . |
| 24 | This involved an attempt to accurately define the organisational and administrative needs of business over the next decade and , within this context , to draw up a taxonomy of secretarial skills suitable for this environment . |
| 25 | More generally , the issue became involved with widespread feelings of disquiet over the increase in the ‘ visibility ’ of local government in Orkney as the Orkney Islands Council , under the impetus of new staff , new problems , new government legislation and new powers began to make itself felt throughout the islands . |
| 26 | Alternatively , and like another important example of advanced technology — the word processor — they may induce defensive responses ( see Barker and Downing , 1980 ) : responses designed to maintain or regain occupants ' previous levels of control over their environmental conditions . |
| 27 | Unable to break them free , waves thrashed the jagged tubes of aluminium over the foredeck . |
| 28 | Sudden bursts of anger over wrongs and grievances by seamen were common enough in the eighteenth century — over wages at Southampton in 1739 , Bristol in 1746 , London in 1750 , 1768 and 1770 and Liverpool in 1762 and 1775 , and over the employment of foreigners at lower wages in London in 1773 and 1783 , are among those incidents of which we have evidence . |
| 29 | So extensive became the control of the catholic sector , both primary and secondary , that priests had extensive powers of dismissal over the teachers until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Lay one of the long strips of cardboard over this join and staple through card and fabric on to the batten . |