Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It recognised that , with educational provision as a whole in a transitional phase , still recovering from the war and still adjusting to the requirements of the 1944 Act , it was inappropriate to ‘ set a course for adult education over the rest of this century ’ : ‘ our recommendations apply to the present transitional period ’ . |
| 2 | Claims that unusually large numbers of cataracts , cancers and other eye diseases in sheep , cattle and rabbits in southern Chile are due to overexposure to ultraviolet radiation ( as a result of ozone depletion over Antarctica ) have been put into question by a study conducted by researchers from John Hopkins University and Chilean health and veterinary authorities . |
| 3 | Step forward trousers , whose sudden success is a direct result of designer indecision over skirt lengths . |
| 4 | The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of , say , one to three years , selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period . |
| 5 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 6 | Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture |
| 7 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 8 | Place a piece of cling film directly on top of the icing and another piece of cling film over the top of the bowl to prevent the icing from drying . |
| 9 | Imagine laying a piece of graph paper over an enlarged copy of a character and making a list of all the squares which it covers . |
| 10 | Shamir made his call in the light of Cabinet disagreements over a Police Ministry proposal to prevent all unmarried Palestinian men under the age of 30 from entering Israel . |
| 11 | The article was a review of process developments over the years and the way changing technology has impacted on fuel design . |
| 12 | The symbolic roles of political leaders preoccupied Pareto and Mosca , who characterized them in a persistently cynical way as outright manipulation or fraud , simple tricks essential to the maintenance of elite control over the mass . |
| 13 | Gigolo Aunts ' casual tenacity has been rewarded with a deal with Fire Records over here , which gives everyone the opportunity to catch ‘ Cope ’ and its maudlin lyrical concerns . |
| 14 | The Bureau was closed down in 1979 and an interesting experiment in State control over the geography of office location came to an end ( Manners and Morris , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | Since the 1970s , scientists had observed a significant depletion in ozone levels over the Antarctic . |
| 16 | The decision came after confusion in government circles over the move and a threat from Andrei Plesu , Minister of Culture , to resign . |
| 17 | Furthermore , energy was over 30 per cent cheaper in the South than in the northeast in 1980 , according to Agnew ( 1987b , p. 174 ) , who draws on Bensel 's ( 1984 ) work , which combines the energy and unionization advantages of the South , to illustrate the growing gap in growth rates over the post-war decades between , on the one hand , the energy-rich/right-to-work States and , on the other , the energy-disadvantaged ( high cost , mostly imported ) and heavily-unionized . |
| 18 | In comparison the er the the smallest projection put forward by Mr Thomas , would actually result in a twenty one percent decrease in building rates over that approved in the adopted adopted plan , and a thirty two percent increase over the actual rate experienced since nineteen eighty one . |
| 19 | In a relaxed first address to Labour 's Scottish conference at Inverness which brought him a warm reception , he closed the embarrassing divide in party ranks over water privatisation . |
| 20 | The first , ‘ conservative ’ option proposes a gradual switch to market principles over an unspecified number of years . |
| 21 | This required two steps : the reimposition of state control over insurrectionist authorities such as the Committees of Public Safety ; and the restoration of a clear distinction between military and civilian spheres . |
| 22 | The general advantage of asset sales over share sales is that the purchaser can be selective as to which assets and liabilities he buys or assumes . |
| 23 | The Johnston and McClelland model therefore predicts that the advantage of word targets over letter targets will be the same with a backward mask which is a word , as with as backward mask consisting of a random sequence of letters . |
| 24 | Sarella felt a wave of nausea sweep over her . |
| 25 | Cursing himself for sounding so patronizing , Harry felt a wave of pity wash over him . |
| 26 | As Michael slipped on his overcoat Joe felt a wave of loneliness wash over him . |
| 27 | She peered out into the moonlit garden and felt a wave of desperation sweep over her . |
| 28 | She cried harder , feeling a wave of sickness wash over her . |
| 29 | Mindful of questions such as these , many Third World governments have tried to establish food policies in order to ensure an acceptable level of food security over the medium and long term . |
| 30 | We lobbied the British Board of Dream Classification over the blasphemy rulings . |