Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] over [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Erm so you would have done er yeah then you 've got You 've got your speed of distance over time correctly .
2 A new political force emerged in late 1990 as a result of disagreements over policy and coalition alliances in Sicily .
3 A further twenty-four lots were withdrawn as a result of uncertainty over ownership .
4 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 ) .
5 Phonocentricism consists in a privileging of speech over writing .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 There is an additional complication to this picture which is the increasing effect of demand over time .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ You look fabulous , you know , ’ said Miranda , deciding to take the part of generosity over envy .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 The Smiths were the second coming of Postcard — the whiter-than-white ‘ pure pop ’ : the sexual ambiguity ; the Luddite insistence on guitars : Edwyn Collins 's avowed rating of romance over sex ; the swoon instead of the earthy R&B rasp ; the flustered undanceability .
21 He subsequently concluded that , in spite of his own intentions , it was still too deeply coloured by the thought of Kierkegaard and Heidegger , that it gave faith a wrong kind of priority over revelation in the arrangement of its material , and that its account of faith was more Existentialist than Christian .
22 Banning of newspaper over abortion advertisement
23 He also has no hesitation in reminding capitalism , in its spooky hour of triumph over communism , that the ‘ culture of contentment ’ has always depended on this underclass — indeed , has happily imported it when necessary to do the menial and distasteful jobs at the cheapest possible wage .
24 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 .
25 But after Hereford 's defeat by Doncaster last week , it may be a case of confidence over conscience .
26 The need to preserve experience for knowledge based systems , the need for verification in case of dispute over contract or other liabilities , legal requirements and citizens data access rights will ensure the preservation of wide ranges of data .
27 He says it 's just a case of mind over matter .
28 ( One might subtract the perception of the past from the perception of the future and smooth that once more as an index of optimism over time . )
29 Tory MPs on the brink of rebellion over Council Tax
30 They can give the familiarity and the regular weekly person-to-person payment of the weekly credit caller or the mail order agent , with a measure of flexibility over payment difficulties which even an understanding commercial lender might find taxing .
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