Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new political force emerged in late 1990 as a result of disagreements over policy and coalition alliances in Sicily . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It can be seen that there is a wide range of statutory and semi-public bodies exercising a variety of controls over development in particular areas of the countryside . |
| 6 | This will have a wide range of powers over health , education and housing and over significant aspects of industrial and economic policy ’ . |
| 7 | In recent months , after the computerisation of employment records , the service has been the focus of a wide range of stoppages over staffing . |
| 8 | Window with views over west Oxford , access to insulated part floored loft with drop down ladder , power point and light , fitted cupboards , radiator , power points , airing cupboard . |
| 9 | But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT . |
| 10 | Indictment of congressman — Issuing of subpoenas over Post Office scandal |
| 11 | It will be noticed that the personal sector has a surplus of receipts over expenditure of £500 million , the public sector has a deficit of £1,500 million , the external sector has a surplus amounting to £1,000 million , and the industrial and commercial sector is in balance . |
| 12 | The division between incomers and Shetlanders in Dunrossness seems to have been an immediate product of conflicts over land and housing , a consequence of some residential patterns in the area , an outcome of changes in the accepted rules in the ‘ status game ’ and , perhaps , an inevitable result of policy predictions . |
| 13 | The increasing numbers of colleges approaching the CNAA had to do in part with difficulties over validation by universities — particularly those which were unwilling or reluctant to validate honours degrees — and in part with the attraction of the CNAA as a validating body which could consider a range of courses , including those in the areas of proposed diversification . |
| 14 | When we think about those questions of individ individuation in our normal affairs , the best we can do is to say that what individuates us and also what makes us the same person through changes over time , is a great medley of factors , some of which are bodily , some of which involve our souls |
| 15 | They may provide considerable scope for disputes over meaning . |
| 16 | The number has increased gradually from 1,087,000 in 1968 , though natural increase ( excess of births over death ) accounted for more than half the rise in 1979-1980 , the last year for which figures are available . |
| 17 | If , as seemed likely , one cause of unemployment was an excess of savings over investment , the equalisation of decisions to save and decisions to invest could be brought about by Labour 's plans for progressive taxation which would redistribute income to the poorer sections of society . |
| 18 | Changes in usage of terms over time can also present problems . |
| 19 | The Sun at odds with Saturn in Aquarius on the 8th should give you fair warning of conflict with others over home , family or professional matters . |
| 20 | The previous incumbent had been recalled in January following a dispute between Australia and the government of former President Hammer DeRoburt over the grounding of Air Nauru services and a strike by pilots over operation and safety issues [ see p. 37091 ] . |
| 21 | Once installed in government , however , the Labour Party embarked upon an energetic legislative programme including the establishment of the Department of Economic Affairs ( DEA ) under George Brown with the remit of formulating a national plan , and the Ministry of Technology under Cousins , a leading light of the leftward movement in the trade unions since the '50s ; the repeal of the 1957 Rent Act attacked by Labour as a ‘ landlord 's charter ’ and associated with ‘ Rachmanism ’ ; the development of comprehensive education ; the development of regional policy in an attempt to alleviate the relatively high unemployment and slow growth of the depressed areas of the UK dependent on declining industries ; the 1965 Trade Disputes Act , which gave union leaders full legal protection from actions over breach of employment contract ; and the Redundancy Payments Act . |
| 22 | The company is due to meet MSF leaders next week for talks over job losses , but a union official said foremen at Dagenham and Southampton had been ‘ chomping at the bit ’ to take industrial action before then . |
| 23 | The claim that science starts with problems is perfectly compatible with the priority of theories over observation and observation statements . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister has rejected an offer of talks over peace in Northern Ireland with the Sinn Fein leader , Gerry Adams . |
| 25 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 26 | The principal focus of long-wave theories is historical , offering a framework for conceiving the movement of economies over time so that , if they help us understand the modern UK economy , they do so by locating the present in a pattern that covers the past and the future . |
| 27 | In the Japanese style of manufacturing , two things are vital : the elimination of waste in production and stocks by ‘ just-in-time ’ delivery of parts ; and close co-operation with parts-suppliers over quality as well as R&D . |
| 28 | Another argument in favour of fees over commission is that there will be more incentive for stockbrokers to take a real interest in their clients ' portfolios , since any increase in their value will bear directly on the brokers ' remuneration . |
| 29 | We require to clarify any inherent pattern that might be present in the variation of imports over time . |
| 30 | Indeed , the major underlying concern in debates over pornography , homosexuality , abortion , the age of consent , divorce and drugs during the period under consideration here has been the welfare of children . |