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

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1 In a further effort to tackle the chronic air pollution of its capital , [ see EDs passim ] , the Mexican government has announced that all public transport and cargo vehicles in the city must convert to natural gas or liquid petroleum over the next three years .
2 However , the actual reproduction or modernist form over the last century and a half has revealed exactly the opposite tendency , since objects formed entirely on the basis of utility have proved singularly unattractive ( which accounts for their general absence from commercial marketing ) .
3 The control of the out-working artisan or small-workshop craftsman over the rhythm and intensity of his working week was one which survived , for the most part , until the factory age .
4 Although an ostensible headquarters was created at Dabrendorf , with seven ex-Soviet generals and some seventy colonels , it exercised no political or tactical authority over the dispersed Ostbataillonen , and had direct control over only one small training camp with which to take advantage of a wave of enthusiastic applications .
5 281 is regarded as extending the protected class , there was in Shah 's case no relationship of influence or likely influence over the sureties by those connected with the debtor company of which the bank had any knowledge .
6 So the right to a pension or endowment is a far cry from any power of possession over means of production , or positive influence over the allocation of resources .
7 Furthermore , the litanies of ‘ respectable fears ’ and ‘ moral panics ’ are only one of the discourses about ‘ law and order ’ found in popular , political , or academic discussion over the last century .
8 As well as the chance to witness the climax of the men 's and women 's World Marathon Cup and watch a friend or relative struggle over the line , the tickets also include breakfast at a London hotel , once again courtesy of adidas UK .
9 Since Sudan came into existence as a separate state under British colonial control at the end of the nineteenth century , the north has tended to dominate , to be the seat of government and to take economic and political precedence over the south .
10 The economic and political debate over the merits of full EMS membership will now intensify .
11 In letters to both John Major and Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , he asked for the full cost to be disclosed and expressed concern over the waste of public money .
12 By looking at the links between sea level rise and volcanic activity over the last million years , he hopes to be able to predict whether our heating of the atmosphere today could earn us a fierce and violent reprimand from the planet in years to come .
13 Has social and economic change over the past two centuries led to a reduction in the actual support which kin give to each other ?
14 This project aims to map the movements of individuals between employment , unemployment and economic inactivity over the decade 1979-1989 , to identify significant trends , and to relate them to wider economic factors and policy developments .
15 Following talks with President Gorbachev ( who accepted an invitation to visit Egypt ) and other Soviet leaders , agreements were signed on economic , trade , scientific and technical co-operation over the next 10 years .
16 There 's been loud and strong protest over the past few weeks as parents have campaigned against the clinic claiming it presented a threat to their children 's well-being .
17 The gloomy trends of macro-economic indicators of economic growth , inflation , unemployment , and public spending over the period were in line with those for earlier governments .
18 A series of different posters , which strongly illustrated the plight of women in potential danger , regardless of age or social class , created enormous press and public interest over the months of the campaign .
19 In the aftermath , the French government , headed at the time by Félix Gaillard , bowed to foreign pressure and agreed to accept American and British mediation over the incident .
20 Claiming that a coup was being planned even before he introduced economic austerity policies on taking office three years previously , Pérez told foreign correspondents on Feb. 9 that he intended to continue with his economic policies but would bring forward a $4,000 million social project to improve health care , education and social welfare over the next four years .
21 Before looking at the relationship between mortality rates and social class over the years , it is worth referring to some evidence which suggest that similar medical care benefits upper-class patients more than their lower-class counterparts .
22 Chaos and fractal imagery have hit the technical and popular imagination over the last few years , and the King 's DSP group is working on a number of applications for this new branch of mathematics .
23 In 1641 there was a Catholic rebellion against the Protestants of Ulster , and English authority over the island was shaken .
24 Scotland has achieved an economic and cultural regeneration over the past 13 years .
25 Is it to be only for fun and general amusement , or are you a perfectionist , seeking impeccable exposures and absolute control over the photography ?
26 The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union .
27 The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union .
28 The IPCC is preparing a range of projections on emissions of carbon dioxide and global warming over the next 100 years on the basis of estimates of worldwide economic growth , energy use and technological change .
29 The growth in total research grants held and annual expenditure over the past twelve years up to and including 1991/92 , provides a measure of the very marked increase in the level of research activity .
30 The narrator identifies a larger issue behind this slight : it is the conflict between two kinds of Jewishness , between the embattled , coarse-grained immigrant from Europe and the wordly , go-ahead American , who rates business acumen and individual assertion over the value of community ties .
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