Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In continuation of the policy of decentralization in progress over the past few years , Prime Minister Edith Cresson announced on Nov. 7 that the École Nationale d'Administration ( ENA ) , the elite civil service school , was to be transferred from Paris to Strasbourg by 2000 to strengthen links with Europe . |
| 2 | In the day-to-day life of a legal system its rule of recognition is very seldom expressly formulated as a rule ; though occasionally , courts in England may announce in general terms the relative place of one criterion of law in relation to another , as when they assert the supremacy of Acts of Parliament over other sources or suggested sources of law . |
| 3 | Embarrassed salesman Mr Drury , 34 , said : ‘ I have taken a lot of stick at work over this . |
| 4 | Of thunder of spring over distant mountains |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I gather there has been a lot of soul-searching up north over the defeats for Linfield and Bangor — though Linfield now have a lifeline . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I gather there has been a lot of soul-searching up north over the defeats for Linfield and Bangor — though Linfield now have a lifeline . |
| 7 | Work is going on in the Beaufort Sea on the West Coast and also off the East Coast where a significant discovery — Hibernia — has led to disagreement and a legal dispute between the federal government and the province of Newfoundland concerning sovereignty over offshore fuels . |
| 8 | Mr Grant said that his association and its members had contributed quite a lot of money for advice over a number of years . |
| 9 | In order to compare the uptake of Ac-ASA with that of 5-ASA , the rate of uptake of Ac-ASA over one hour has to be derived . |
| 10 | BJP legislators yesterday walked out of parliament in protest over the arrests . |
| 11 | Hyperbolic functions are commonly used in kinetics : eg , the speed of waves in water over a shallow bottom is given by : V ² = 1.8 L th ( 6.3 d / L ) where V is velocity in knots and L is the wavelength in feet . |
| 12 | To analyse trends in the number of authors per article over the past 10 years . |
| 13 | On the same page appeared a sharp rebuke to Ken Brown , an idiosyncratic professional golfer , who had committed the unforgivable sin of refusing to give interviews to the press or television and making good his escape from a crowd of journalists by vaulting over a barrier . |
| 14 | He added traders would be questioned on the effects of pedestrianisation on business over coming months . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Chuck a couple of buckets of water over him , we might be able to recognise what it is , ’ Yanto suggested . |
| 18 | For the measurement of changes of performance over time items were to be analysed using the Rasch model . |
| 19 | The pattern of changes in status over the three years since redundancy was broadly similar for those aged 55–59 , 40–54 , and under 40 at the time of redundancy . |
| 20 | However , the ‘ special relationship ’ that marked the Reagan and Bush years has gone and there is plenty of scope for disagreement over a packed agenda . |
| 21 | But though there is plenty of scope for debate over the details , such as whether God should appear in the preamble , there is consensus on many bigger points . |
| 22 | The obtaining of access and maintenance of rights of way over Pennine moorlands , particularly in the Peak District , was fundamental to their activities . |
| 23 | Accordingly , the major contribution of economics to policy over this period has been in providing some short-term corrections to economic activity whilst being able to do little to alter the long-term trend . |
| 24 | It superseded the very successful Coalville open days which have raised thousands of pounds for charity over the last nine years . |
| 25 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |
| 26 | ‘ One paper , by Paige ( 1967 ) , for example , quotes Lenin 's ‘ who does what to whom ’ , and Mao 's ‘ war without bloodshed ’ , reminds us of the more familiar formulations of Lasswell ( 1936 ) — ‘ who gets what , when , how ’ — , Easton ( 1953 ) — ‘ the authoritative allocation of values ’ — , Levy ( 1952 ) — ‘ the allocation of power and responsibility ’ , and Snyder ( 1958 ) — ‘ the making of authoritative social decisions ’ , and throws in for good measure a definition by a Japanese political scientist , Masao Maruyama — ‘ the organization of control by man over man ’ . |
| 27 | Chronology is one of the cornerstones of geomorphology , and researchers are urged to balance their studies of present geomorphic processes by an appreciation of rates of work over timescales of 10 4 — 10 6 years . |
| 28 | Artur Balazs , Minister without Portfolio responsible for contacts with political parties , resigned on April 24 because of differences with Olszewski over widening the coalition . |
| 29 | After the death of Chilperic and the revolt of Gundovald in 584 , Guntram recognized his nephew as being fit to rule in his own name , but even this did not ensure consistently good relations between the two kings , not least because of differences of opinion over control of certain cities , and because of the ramifications of the Gundovald affair . |
| 30 | A testator had , before 13 July 1939 , an unlimited power of disposition by will over all his proprietary rights which survive him , including , since 1925 , an entailed interest in possession . |