Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] over the whole " in BNC.

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1 At Messina they succeeded in winning the support of Italy for a move towards broad economic integration , triumphing over both a more limited conception advocated by West Germany that fell somewhere between supranationalism and the old sectoral route , and the doubts of France over the whole concept of a common market .
2 It rested on a grant of authority over the whole country by Gregory to the first archbishop , followed by a long history of the exercise of this authority from the seventh century onwards .
3 The main purpose of the project is to investigate the architecture , furniture , and equipment of dwellings over the whole range of Scottish society , looking at large-scale buildings like castles and tenement blocks and also at small cottages and council houses .
4 Take a typical staircase in your home ( 3–35° ) , tilt it to match the angle of the sides of Egypt 's Great Pyramids at Giza ( 52° ) , remove some of the steps , and shovel ice and a couple of feet of snow over the whole affair .
5 We are , therefore , solely concerned with nine papal letters contaminated to a greater or lesser extent , predominantly with a view to providing explicit papal authority for the primacy of Canterbury over the whole area of Britain .
6 Average rates of return over the whole period were : ICI — HC 15% , CPP 1 ½%; GEC — HC 19% , CPP 10 ½%.; e
7 Thus , when the Bank of England wishes to bring about a change in base rates , which in turn affect all other sterling rates of interest over the whole yield curve , it does so by adjusting its money market intervention rates , in what must be , by definition , the discount market .
8 ‘ In Great Britain , the growth of numbers over the whole century ’ , wrote the Royal Commission on Population , ‘ was of the order of 50 per cent .
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