Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anomalous aspects of nature often venerated by ritual over long periods of time become charged with the directed mental/ psychic energy of their race . |
| 2 | Tension over Iranian claim to Gulf islands |
| 3 | The failure of the scandal to subside , and the continuing expression of public disgust over lenient treatment of Kanemaru by the prosecuting authorities , was demonstrated by a protest march in central Tokyo on Nov. 10 . |
| 4 | CHANCELLOR Kenneth Clarke today waded into a fresh Tory rift over public spending after delivering a broad hint that his November Budget will bring rises in indirect taxes . |
| 5 | CHANCELLOR Kenneth Clarke today waded into a fresh Tory rift over public spending after delivering a broad hint that his November Budget will bring rises in indirect taxes . |
| 6 | We saw that there is some evidence that , where women do have command over financial resources in a way normally associated with men , they share in financial support in families in a way rather similar to men . |
| 7 | Their strategy for the achievement of this objective ‘ was essentially one of sustained ideological warfare in the context of steadily escalating action over concrete disputes with management ’ ( ibid. , p. 313 ) . |
| 8 | The dominance of wave action over current action in longshore movement is emphasised by estimates of the relative importance of movement as bed load and as suspended load summarised by Komar ( 1976 ) . |
| 9 | One of the most serious incidents concerned the town of Batavia , Illinois , whose 17,000 residents allegedly suffer a cancer risk several hundred times higher than that which the EPA regards as acceptable , due to a reported failure by the agency to take action over high levels of radioactivity in drinking water . |
| 10 | It is well nigh impossible to compare the rate of crime over extended periods of time ( as Reading 10 , Chapter 5 , taken from Pearson 's study , indicates ) . |
| 11 | Pearson 's study of the history of street crime in Britain clearly illustrates the problem of using criminal statistics as a means for comparing the rate of crime over extended periods of time . |
| 12 | Unfounded optimism over anticipated revenue from oil exports had led to major increases in imports in 1989 [ see p. 37016 for unsuccessful commencement of oil exports in 1988 ] . |
| 13 | At the same time , Rome extended its rule over Celtic tribes in Serbia and Bulgaria , and by AD 14 the whole of the Balkans south of the Danube was in Roman hands . |
| 14 | In terms of regional structural controls most of the auriferous deposits in the project area are spatially related to first-order faults and shear zones within the belt and along its margins ; to major anticlinal fold axial traces and limb shears ; or to the fracture envelopes around the major granitoid intrusions Follow-up geochemical field testing of soils for arsenic over selected targets outside the known gold mining districts was 60–70% successful in demonstrating that certain predicted structural settings would be mineralised . |
| 15 | It is difficult to predict whether or not judicial review will be useful in clarifying the law over unmet need in the NHS and Community Care Act . |
| 16 | The popular press hailed this triumph of law over anarchic visions of order . |
| 17 | Most of the steps leading to the modern conifers seem to have taken place by the end of the Palaeozoic ; no other group of organisms of such antiquity has retained such an unbroken hold over vast areas of the earth as the conifers . |
| 18 | The move was an attempt to break the hold over local government of the FIS , which in June 1990 had won control of 853 municipalities and 32 provinces [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 19 | Where lay the basis for the belief that there was a corporate life , a level of interchange over academic matters in which all could feel themselves to be involved ? |
| 20 | Ward managers report on expected levels of work over specific period of time throughout a typical week . |
| 21 | If MPs from south of the Border are to have no influence over certain matters in Scotland , why should Scottish MPs vote on parallel issues affecting England and Wales ? |
| 22 | The Parliament could not sack individual Commissioners , or force amendments on legislation , nor did it develop much influence over budgetary matters until the 1970s . |
| 23 | The financial scheme attached to the Bill demonstrates that it would be in Scotland 's interest to have an influence over overall levels of taxation in the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | His other priorities include a review of the bureaucracy of BAIE 's committee structure , getting the Association 's finances on a firmer footing after a period of change , and creating greater influence over leading lights in the business world . |
| 25 | Beccaria 's classical criminology is universally attributed with a powerful influence over subsequent developments in the criminal justice systems of most European countries . |
| 26 | Aside from the question of their own delinquency/criminality , there is the important question of women 's influence over masculine patterns of criminal and delinquent behaviour . |
| 27 | Instead he found mighty walled cities and disciplined armies , capable of subjugating the Orcs and keeping the peace over huge stretches of territory . |
| 28 | KGB General Vladimir Podelyakin called on the Bashkirian parliament to declare an environmental disaster zone over large parts of the republic , warning that " KGB experts predict that life in Bashkiria will be doomed if urgent measures are not taken in the very near future " . |
| 29 | Disagreement over economic policies between the bureaucracy , the LDP and big business is well documented across a range of issues from anti-monopoly controls through rationalization cartels to state subsidies for rice producers . |
| 30 | Gascoigne deduced disagreement over long-term aims between the War and State departments . |