Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Knights wear mantles of wolf skins over their red-coloured armour . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | to assess the degree of convergence or divergence of input provision between and within classes of education authorities over the period 1975-84 ; |
| 11 | increased powers for school governors over internal budgeting and the appointment of staff and a shift in balance towards parent governors ; |
| 12 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 13 | The data does not include common land and it has had to be standardised to overcome changes in category definitions over the years . |
| 14 | To expand the discussion to cover the changes in water properties over the entire water column , we have made comparisons with previous data sets . |
| 15 | A further problem with this aspect of the analysis is the changes in exchange rates over the period of the study . |
| 16 | Are you aware of any significant changes in council policies over the past five years ? |
| 17 | The value of the data base to researchers will be enhanced by the systematic inclusion of references to allow the identification of the parliamentary constituency within each ward falls ; the tracing of changes in ward boundaries over the period since 1973 ; and the matching of ward level electoral data with material collected for the 1981 census . |
| 18 | Their interest is focused upon revealed changes in integration effects over time , as indicated by a domestic share of apparent domestic consumption ( p-x ) , a partner share of apparent domestic consumption ( Mp ) , and a rest of the world share of apparent domestic consumption ( Mrow ) . |
| 19 | Urban issues are to be understood in terms of class conflicts over the character and extent of reproduction through collective consumption in the form of the provision of urban services and facilities , particularly housing . |
| 20 | The demand for money is also influenced by expectations of price changes and the levels of interest rates over the longer term . |
| 21 | Mention of celebrity concerts brings to mind another Vancouver personality , Miss Lily Laverock , who was the city 's first real impresario , bringing in many international artists on concert tours over the years . |
| 22 | TEN people were injured in accidents on North-East roads over the weekend . |
| 23 | The main contributory factor here is the greater decline among older women than older men in mortality rates over the last forty years or so , with cancer and circulatory diseases now being the main causes of the higher mortality rate among men ( Ermisch , 1983 , 1990 ) . |
| 24 | ROYAL aides have had talks with health officials over the higher-than-average level of cancer-causing radon gas — revealed by our sister paper the Sunday Mirror — in the Balmoral area . |
| 25 | However , the Marxist regime in South Yemen has permitted the USSR the use of port facilities at Aden and numerous airfields for reconnaissance missions over the Indian Ocean and the Horn of Africa . |
| 26 | All five countries except Japan registered gains in share prices over the year up to the Gulf crisis . |
| 27 | British Telecom is about to have a second stab at selling services in ‘ video conferencing ’ — the holding of conferences by business executives over video links . |