Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are sites in Harrogate that erm could be lost to employment use and that we 'd want to make compensating provision for those sites over and above the ninety hectares . |
| 2 | Noel 's Garden Party will be packing them in at Haydock Park for two days over the August Bank Holiday . |
| 3 | Following a further visit to Paris for talks with Mitterrand and French Prime Minister Michel Rocard on May 28-29 , Mazowiecki said that he had received support for Polish demands over the Polish-German border issue , as well as its request to participate in the " two-plus-four " talks on German unification [ see also above ] . |
| 4 | Responsibility for bibliographical services over the whole authority normally resides with a senior officer based at headquarters — a post usually known as Bibliographical Services Officer , less commonly as Stock Editor . |
| 5 | Mounting industrial unrest gave the party new heart after internal disputes over incomes policy , immigration , Rhodesia , and much else . |
| 6 | Neatly arranged opposite is an array of samplers , sequencers , drum machines and keyboards — just to prove there 's more to the man than the jingle-jangle of six strings over a pickup . |
| 7 | Care , of course , has to be taken not to equate , by necessity , duration with severity , for a child might be just as traumatized by one incident as by a succession of repeated incidents over time . |
| 8 | Decommissioning the station will cost £220 million and will result in the loss of 490 jobs over the next two years . |
| 9 | A second survey was undertaken to establish the level of loss of requested items over a six month period . |
| 10 | Pete 's cooking was obviously the result of many hours over a hot Trangia . |
| 11 | His discussions with the Pope led to Charles ' confirmation of papal rights over the Exarchate of Ravenna , from Ferrara and Commachio in the north , to Osimo in the south . |
| 12 | Although there are dangers in concentrating on a single see , the information provided by Gregory does allow a study of episcopal elections over the best part of a century . |
| 13 | The increased demand for food to feed the growing populations of the great cities was met by speedy rail communication with the countryside , which allowed the transportation of perishable goods over long distances and promoted commercialization , specialization , and modernization in the agriculture of many countries . |
| 14 | By vastly cheapening the carriage of heavy materials over long distances , the canals also brought about indirect changes in the landscape . |
| 15 | Elections for 105 seats in the 151-member Tsogdu are by universal suffrage of all adults over the age of 17 ; 10 are reserved for religious bodies and the remainder are occupied by officials , ministers and members of the Royal Advisory Council . |
| 16 | There was another extended break of 51 days over Christmas . |
| 17 | A senior police officer is insisting that Oxford 's joyriding problem is under control , despite an outbreak of nine incidents over the weekend . |
| 18 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 19 | It was only after a new system of physics had been devised , a process that involved the intellectual labour of many scientists over several centuries , that the new theory could be successfully matched with the results of observation and experiment in a detailed way . |
| 20 | The physiological effect of these forces over months is unknown . |
| 21 | But do n't worry too much about the massive effect of these clouds over Arizona ; these are local and temporary , produced while the cloud was compact and before it spread to produce a much smaller effect over a much bigger area . |
| 22 | The brouhaha of recent days over the behaviour of Lonrho , and the Observer newspaper which it owns , should not be allowed to cloud this issue . |
| 23 | the proliferation of technical manuals over the last twenty years has meant that the number of manuals supplied with complex aircraft/systems has increased to the point where it is practically impossible to access all the information in the ‘ library ’ ( Fig. 1 shows an example of technical manual growth rate within the Naval Air Systems Command ) ; |
| 24 | The top station has a large revolving restaurant and a sun terrace with wonderful views over Switzerland , including the Eiger , Monch and Jungfrau mountains . |
| 25 | An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " . |
| 26 | The Bank has quadrupled its investment in environmental projects over the past year , from US$404 million to US$1,600 million , but critics charge that the money is being used to make projects look green rather than cancelling bad projects , which Bank officials are said to be reluctant to do . |
| 27 | Net borrowings as at 31 December 1992 were IR£54.6 million , leading to gearing of 54 per cent , reflecting the significant cash impact of the IR£7.7 million restructuring at Waterford and capital investment in both businesses over the year . |
| 28 | England cricketers have already been cowed into submission in recent days over discussing publicly the ‘ Lambgate Affair ’ which has rocked cricket . |
| 29 | One possibility for the decrease in antral carcinomas over time is a decrease in H pylori infection and hence a fall in the prevalence of chronic gastritis . |
| 30 | Since 1985 , there has been action in several prisons over several demands , but perennially the amount of overtime that has to be worked . |