Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 2 | To sail over a wave without jumping you need to unhook and let your legs absorb the rising wave — rather like a skier uses his legs as shock absorbers over bumps . |
| 3 | The abolition of tax concessions for home owners over the next two years , along with continued falls in house prices , will trigger a stampede to rent , it says . |
| 4 | It has also been clear in his methods of training orchestras over long periods of time . |
| 5 | Too full to speak , Paige slid her arm about his waist and let the hovering waves of sleep drift over her . |
| 6 | He stood looking down at her and Maggie felt waves of anxiety wash over her . |
| 7 | It may be that the Minoans enjoyed the social and diplomatic aspects of long-drawn-out negotiations over the price of a cargo with Egyptian , Cypriot , or Trojan merchants . |
| 8 | President Bush signed into law on Dec. 18 a transport bill which allocated $119,000 million of federal funds to road construction over a six-year period , and $31,500 million to mass transit . |
| 9 | There has been a plethora of books on country houses over the last ten years , but author and illustrator Peter Morter and Brian Delf , have found a new and intriguing approach . |
| 10 | The Knights wear mantles of wolf skins over their red-coloured armour . |
| 11 | It is of course essential to our readers ' work to be able to compare changing patterns of land use over time , and often to be able to pinpoint a particular feature for various dates during , perhaps , more than a century of the topographic record . |
| 12 | Indeed Frost and Spence conclude that the main result of their detailed study of employment change between 1971 and 1977 must be ( 1984 , 146 ) ‘ the critical role that service activities and particularly the widespread public services have played in influencing the nature and patterns of employment change over the period ’ . |
| 13 | In addition to the structure I have also provisionally examined the numbers of staff likely to be needed for Council Tax purposes having regard to experiences of Poll Tax over recent years . |
| 14 | The great advantages of copper pipe over the old-fashioned lead piping are that it is light in weight , relatively cheap and easy to work with . |
| 15 | When the policy and administrative costs of checking this are considered , the advantages of in-kind transfer over cash transfer are reduced . |
| 16 | What are the advantages of Gift Aid over a Deed of Covenant ? |
| 17 | Imports of passenger cars over the three months rose only two per cent by volume , whilst imports of capital goods were down six per cent . |
| 18 | During the course of the century the limitations to government authority over the pomeshchiks were fully exposed . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he has had with Overseas Development Ministers of OECD countries on aid matters over the last month . |
| 20 | Social workers , librarians , planners , architects , housing staff , tax , careers and school officers will be taking part in the vote for six days of strike action over a six week period from October 4 . |
| 21 | From our dressing-cum-locker room we can see the audience hopelessly running around with pieces of plastic sheeting over their heads , trying to stay dry . |
| 22 | to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ; |
| 23 | I say ‘ more or less stable ’ because , of course , conventions of meaning change over time . |
| 24 | The credentials of team B over the last two General Elections have been so patently hopeless that the floating voter has very rightly not applied the principle . |
| 25 | Those who directly represent the citizens ( legislative and oversight bodies ) , which includes members of state legislatures , county commissions , city councils , boards of trustees , school boards and those executive branch officials with oversight responsibility over other levels of government . |
| 26 | BR said the ballot showed there were real reservations among rail staff over taking industrial action and urged the union to pull back from a strike . |
| 27 | increased powers for school governors over internal budgeting and the appointment of staff and a shift in balance towards parent governors ; |
| 28 | But urban sprawl and rural decay and disfigurement was often taking place in areas where local authorities were weak and where traditions of council control over development had not yet been established . |
| 29 | Surely that has been one of the major changes of Government policy over the last few years . |
| 30 | 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 . |