Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 The 30-nation talks in Geneva failed to bridge the gap between countries such as Germany and the Nordic states , which are seeking a 79 per cent cut in emissions by the end of the decade , and those like the UK and France which want a lower level of cuts over a longer period .
2 A further advantage of RMI over previous approaches was that it is consistent with the growing influence of general management .
3 Apart from these four principal strategies , there is one further experiment in Buxtehude over whose implementation there has been considerable controversy .
4 By July 1980 the Midland had agreed to buy a 51% stake for $595m and to buy a further 6% at $225m over the next three years .
5 No further comment from Queen over Fergie photos
6 In July 1989 there were further disturbances in Abkhazia over plans to open a section of Tbilisi University in the Abkhazian capital Sukhumi .
7 Those people whose first job on leaving unemployment was a " temporary " one were more likely to suffer multiple spells of unemployment , to hold many jobs , to experience a longer time in unemployment and a shorter time in employment over the 20 months following their initial registration than those whose first job was a " permanent " one [ see Tables 4.3.5 ] .
8 Foreign investors looked at the higher yield of gilts over German government bonds without worrying about exchange risk .
9 We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] .
10 The conservation area legislation also gives local planners a stronger degree of control over shopfronts than any other part of the building or type of building .
11 Monsieur Mitterand has already said that he 's going to seek to drive a harder bargain with Britain over fishing limits even than President Giscard was trying to do , and I think our negotiators must expect a rather tough time as far as fisheries are concerned .
12 In comparison , doctors in the hospital sector had a much greater measure of influence over these issues , but because of the combination of bureaucratic and collegial control , relatively less freedom over their own work practices .
13 For the French king , the opportunity of exercising a greater measure of control over Brittany , with its maritime outlets , was not to be missed .
14 Its directors had to sustain wars in Asia , try to devise means of governing newly conquered Indian provinces , and cope with the demands of the national government and of Parliament for an ever greater measure of control over the Company .
15 Both family and part-time farmers felt that with the farm they had a greater degree of control over their future .
16 LDCs ' governments also insisted on domestically-generated funds being used to finance economic development programmes and thus sought a greater degree of control over the operations of British banks .
17 It is argued that this gives unions a greater degree of control over their members and greater bargaining strength .
18 The House of Commons was moving forward to assert a greater degree of control over the colonies than before ; partly to evade this , William created a Board of Trade and Plantations , made up of civil servants and privy councillors , that was unlikely to pay much more attention to the Commons than its predecessor , the Lords of Trade , had done .
19 It is hoped an Ada version of ANDF will allow government , defence and corporate procurers to exercise a much greater degree of control over their suppliers , by enabling them to separate hardware and software purchasing considerations .
20 Praxis argues ANDF will eventually allow government , defence and other large information technology procurers to exercise a much greater degree of control over their suppliers , by separating hardware and software purchasing considerations .
21 Several former advocates of behaviourist approaches have since changed their stance significantly , and begun to argue that all pupils , including those who experience difficulties in learning , should have a greater degree of control over their own learning ( Ainscow 1989 ) .
22 There were strong pressures from still further national minorities for a greater degree of control over their own affairs .
23 Since this case law was developed in the context of the exercise of delegated powers by the Commission , it would seem highly unlikely that the Court would wish to exercise a greater degree of control over the exercise of original legislative power by the Council of Ministers .
24 Of more senior rank are the legionary centurions recorded as centuriones regionarii ; they probably had wider responsibilities with oversight over whole districts and only four are known in Britain .
25 Sometimes Bentham is represented as having held a significantly different view from that just described , according to which an action which it is right for me to do at any moment is either one which produces a greater surplus of pleasure over pain than any alternative action then open to me ( in which case it is the one right action ) or produces as great a surplus as any alternative ( in which case it is a right action ) , while all actions not thus right are wrong .
26 All said they were experiencing a greater sense of control over their eating .
27 This simple observation is crucial to the argument of this chapter , as it allows us to question ingrained assumptions concerning the superiority and greater significance of language over other forms of expression .
28 Agriculture has learned to respond quickly to technical advances and has achieved greater increases in productivity over the last 25 years than any other industry .
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