Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well be that a fairer test must await an examination of the poll tax over an entire electoral cycle . |
| 2 | Would the hon. Lady have supported the resignation of the Home Secretary over the escapes from Brixton ? |
| 3 | She ladled a little of the court bouillon over the fat bits of mackerel . |
| 4 | In the interview , the Prime Minister was asked about the line that stressed the importance of the service sector over manufacturing . |
| 5 | I made it clear that our policy was to use that money to reduce the level of the council tax over that period of time . |
| 6 | Alright , if erm , if we now so this is going to be his sort of , his opportunity cost right , his wage rate in the rural sense is going to , to opportunity cost , and the sum of the opportunity cost over time right , is going to be the present , you know if we discount that by some er , if we turn it into a present , a present value , right , the present value of that sum there , right , will determine life times income in agriculture . |
| 7 | As far as the company is concerned , the excess of the purchase price over the subscription price for the original shares ( including any premium paid on issue ) will be treated as a distribution . |
| 8 | Morgan , MacDonald and Hilgard ( 1974 ) , for instance , have related hypnosis to mediation by the right hemisphere and Cohen , Rosen and Goldstein ( 1976 ) claimed to show that sexual orgasm in humans is associated with increased amplitude of the wave form over the right but not the left hemisphere . |
| 9 | This enabled someone to establish the numerical co-ordinates of the movement of the cutting tool over the entire sequence of operations and to transfer this to code on punched tape which was then fed into the machine . |
| 10 | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation , a major lender to Bond but one which cut its exposure to about A$1billion earlier this year , said it would study the implications of the NAB action over the weekend . |
| 11 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 12 | He stopped in the middle of the swing bridge over the canal and watched a couple of local boys fishing from the bank . |
| 13 | Given the propensity of the Academy jury over the years to equate serious acting with stars ' willingness to make themselves unattractive , it is surprising that Dustin did not win hands down . |
| 14 | Rourke slung the broad strap of the wicker basket over one shoulder . |
| 15 | A suitable feature of the waveform can be selected for generation of the position signal over the required speed range ( Kuo and Cassat , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | The domination of the cinema screen over the audience has also resulted in experiments with ‘ smell-o-vision ’ , but so far we have thankfully been spared Aldous Huxley 's vision of ‘ the feelies ’ . |
| 17 | The marketing of the share sale over the coming weeks is designed to attract the highest possible number of private investors . |
| 18 | In two careful analyses of the survey evidence over the past four months , the Washington Post and the American Political Report , an influential newsletter , have come to broadly similar conclusions . |
| 19 | So it goes on , with mentions of current ripples up to 10 feet and more in height , a gravel delta 200 square miles in area , the stripping off of the loess cover over an area of almost 2000 square miles and so on . |
| 20 | The expansion of the Royal Navy and the growth of the mercantile marine , however , intensified the alarm of the Navy Board over the shortage of timber . |
| 21 | It is doubtful whether such an explanation of naturally occurring polymorphism could be tested without long-term , detailed recording , not only of the variety of genetic changes occurring within clover populations , but at the same time of a detailed recording of the known hazards in the life of the clover plant over the seasons and the years . |
| 22 | A report by Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has attacked government plans for the expansion of the gas industry over the next five years . |
| 23 | But in the late 1960s the relative autonomy of the teaching profession over the curriculum came increasingly under attack . |
| 24 | In line with the steady upward trend in the use of the Music Room over several years , the readership again increased this year , rising to 1,127 , with the number of items issued also reaching a new high point at 3,129 . |
| 25 | Since a decrease in the alpha component of the EEG implies an increase in the underlying cortical activity , relative suppression of the alpha rhythm over one or other side of the brain has been taken to indicate selective hemisphere involvement during different cognitive tasks . |
| 26 | Control of the money supply over the medium and long term |
| 27 | A government committed to a sustained reduction in the growth of the money supply over a number of years will find this very difficult unless it restricts the size of the public-sector deficit . |
| 28 | There is a further reason why it is difficult to restrain the growth of the money supply over the longer term . |
| 29 | It is difficult to control the growth of the money supply over the longer term without controlling the growth of the PSBR . |
| 30 | If a capital sum is paid by the connected body corporate to the settlor then to the extent of the income available in the trust , that capital sum can be taxed as income upon the settlor and the excess of the amount of the capital sum over income for that year can be taxed in subsequent years as income becomes available in the trust . |