Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policy changes in the 1970s moved the provision for people over retirement age towards a wholly wage-related scheme of insurance . |
| 2 | Another trial in 97 patients showed an advantage for surgery over radiotherapy in forestalling the appearance of distant metastases over five years . |
| 3 | Gravel for use over undergravel filter plates comes in a very wide choice of materials and sizes , often having a high price to match . |
| 4 | Erm so you would have done er yeah then you 've got You 've got your speed of distance over time correctly . |
| 5 | A new political force emerged in late 1990 as a result of disagreements over policy and coalition alliances in Sicily . |
| 6 | A further twenty-four lots were withdrawn as a result of uncertainty over ownership . |
| 7 | The study of recall over time has been used to find whether there are separate system underlying short-term and long-term memory or only one system functioning at different levels ( Baddeley , 1976 ) . |
| 8 | Phonocentricism consists in a privileging of speech over writing . |
| 9 | However , in addition to providing information about the child , an indication of change over time may also be helpful in evaluating the success of previous attempts at remedial intervention . |
| 10 | But correct as the analysis may be it is limited to pragmatic instrumentalist legal theory , and the prescription fails to take account of social theories which may help to explain the changes in the rule of law over time . |
| 11 | There is an additional complication to this picture which is the increasing effect of demand over time . |
| 12 | The National Union of Women Workers , NUWW ( a philanthropic offshoot of Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls formed in 1895 ) , launched a fresh assault on the conspiracy of silence over incest at their annual conference in 1906 . |
| 13 | But finally there was a victory , a quiet one in his own breast , and something like the elevation of disdain over stupidity and meanness , and rest after the long battle . |
| 14 | There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia . |
| 15 | In oral as well as in literate culture , it would appear that there are techniques whereby the directness and immediacy of everyday experience are contrasted with the holding of traditions over time , and with the ‘ fixing ’ and ratifying of definitions and meanings . |
| 16 | Rift with Israel over arrest of alleged spy ring |
| 17 | Grant denies rift with Brady over boardroom leak |
| 18 | Rangers have still received no reply from Marseille over ticket and security arrangements for the crucial European Champions League clash in France on 7 April . |
| 19 | Rainforest negotiations reach impasse in deadlock over debt |
| 20 | Specific topics of interest are the impact of collective agreements on pay in Northern Ireland , and the composition of the workforce ( ie occupation/industry/sex/part-time or full-time nature of the workforce ) and its effect on pay over time . |
| 21 | Shedding some light on protest over VAT on fuel . |
| 22 | Drug suicide bid by Bardot over animal cruelty |
| 23 | Also , some appear suddenly ( like a visitation ) , others build up gradually , piece by piece over time in an incremental process . |
| 24 | Eastman Kodak Co has filed a patent infringement suit against Sony Corp and Sony Corp of America over use of a magnetic recording system that was patented by Kodak which uses a record head with a reduced magnetic gap length : Kodak said it has tried to negotiate a licence agreement with Sony over its use of the patent since the late 1980s . |
| 25 | If it is seen as part of control over quality of education , the parent might ask why the child should be given access at all . |
| 26 | ‘ You look fabulous , you know , ’ said Miranda , deciding to take the part of generosity over envy . |
| 27 | The reasons why cereal based ORS have been so successful has not been examined but a number of possible mechanisms have been proposed including increased substrate availability without increased osmolality , kinetic advantage of oligosaccharides over glucose monomers , and low osmolality . |
| 28 | Moreover , one important advantage of Raman over IR spectroscopy is that water has very weak Raman scattering , and vibrational spectra of aqueous solutions are almost always studied most readily using Raman techniques . |
| 29 | If the pond-building books fail to acknowledge Murphy 's Law , it is nowhere more evident than at the point where neat diagrams demonstrate the laying of slabs over flap of liner . |
| 30 | Also taken from Paracelsus was the idea that the new science and medicine were biblically sanctioned and destined to attain a new level of control over nature . |