Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [noun] 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 | In evidence to the Environment Committee in 1986 the following report was given on the record of the Church Commissioners over the previous seventeen years , during which the future of 1,053 redundant churches was decided . |
| 3 | Would the hon. Lady have supported the resignation of the Home Secretary over the escapes from Brixton ? |
| 4 | She ladled a little of the court bouillon over the fat bits of mackerel . |
| 5 | In the interview , the Prime Minister was asked about the line that stressed the importance of the service sector over manufacturing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So what was the point of discussing any of the myriad amendments over the past six months if so many of them could be shrugged off as ‘ ineffective ’ ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He stopped in the middle of the swing bridge over the canal and watched a couple of local boys fishing from the bank . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Rourke slung the broad strap of the wicker basket over one shoulder . |
| 17 | A suitable feature of the waveform can be selected for generation of the position signal over the required speed range ( Kuo and Cassat , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | In those days it was easy to offend : the establishment liked its Monarch of the Glentype pieces over its Adams fireplaces . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | The marketing of the share sale over the coming weeks is designed to attract the highest possible number of private investors . |
| 21 | We took about £150m out of the operating companies over a couple of years |
| 22 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A report by Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has attacked government plans for the expansion of the gas industry over the next five years . |
| 28 | This session allows for an in depth examination of the drinking diaries over the last five weeks — identifying the risky circumstances or situations … . |
| 29 | But in the late 1960s the relative autonomy of the teaching profession over the curriculum came increasingly under attack . |
| 30 | 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 . |