Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] [conj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Thursday they would continue through the remainder of Germany and over the Czechoslovakian border . |
| 2 | All involved in the chain from installation to servicing , fully understand the design and function of plants and over the last decade an increasing awareness of the environment has concentrated concern for the situations in which people live , work and play . |
| 3 | The finding of archaeology that over the last five thousand years men of the most diverse civilizations have invariably set the highest values on substances which , however attractive aesthetically , were nevertheless useless for purposes of daily life , coincides with the observation of North American society during the last quarter of the nineteenth century made by Thorstein Veblen and embodied in his classic book The Theory of the Leisure Class , originally published in 1899.5 Although composed with the animus and spleen of a man condemned by his personality to a life of persistent failure , Veblen produced a book hilarious in style but of quite brilliant perversity . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly British ministers continued to deal warily with the United States , concerned both for their own freedom of action and over the reliability of the Americans as friends . |
| 5 | The ANC , however , released on Oct. 11 its own separate version of the discussions at the meeting , suggesting that tensions between the two sides remained , particularly over the level of violence and over alleged " double standards " in the government 's treatment of ANC activists and that of members of the far right . |
| 6 | Erosion has also occurred as a result of overgrazing ( particularly in the Zambesi Valley ) , the monoculture of maize and over smaller areas , tobacco , and of some European settler farmers who profitably exploited land in the Eastern Province during the tobacco boom but were not prepared to invest in long-term conservation measures . |
| 7 | Most relatives , however , develop an amazing degree of flexibility and over the years accommodate to eccentricity , peculiar behaviour , apathy and social withdrawal , though sometimes at a high cost to their own lives . |
| 8 | The Palestinian delegation , bolstered by several new members , insisted that it was only prepared to negotiate with Israel over the issue of settlements and over human rights violations in the occupied territories . |
| 9 | By late March divisions were appearing between members of the 12-party Unity Assembly ( Group of 12 — see p. 37313 ) over the extent to which Pascal-Trouillot should consult with the Council of State and over the alleged influence of Duvalierists or Duvalierist sympathizers in her administration . |
| 10 | Executive power is vested in the Governor ( currently Carlos Melancia ) , who is assisted by five Secretaries-Adjunct with executive powers , and who presides over a Superior Council of Security and over a Consultative Council . |
| 11 | But recent research shows that the ‘ constant ’ changes by a fraction of a per cent , both over a period of weeks and over several years . |
| 12 | At clearing with pond on left , turn right round back of house and over stile on to track leading shortly down to road . |
| 13 | With the Sun now passing through the independent sign of Aries and over the mid-heaven point of your solar chart , you should be at your most outgoing , ambitious and not unduly concerned if a major alteration takes place in the working pattern of your life . |
| 14 | Also studied were the consistency of performance of individuals within and between topics , between mode of assessment and over a period of time . |
| 15 | But even as she deliberately shut him from her thoughts , it struck her with an icy sense of unease that over the past week something rather worrying had happened . |
| 16 | A more likely explanation is that , seeing that the Germans had vanished overnight from the field of Gumbinnen he judged his outnumbered foe to be in full retreat , either to the fortress city of Konigsberg or over the Vistula . |
| 17 | It is a matter of fact that over the past 12 months , Hinkley B has out-performed Hunterston B and Heysham 2 has performed better than Torness . |
| 18 | After weeks of discussion , the sides failed to agree terms , either over the crown of France or over the lands to be held by the English , and under what conditions . |