Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paganism of the eastern Angles over the next two or three years suggests that Eadwine 's influence in the region was no longer what it had been in Eorpwald 's lifetime . |
| 2 | Figure 9.1 shows the movements in real exchange rates of the major currencies over the period 1974 — 88 . |
| 3 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 4 | Is he aware of the real problems over on-going research ? |
| 5 | The first was the Legend of St Sylvester and the Donation of Constantine , the second the triumph of the legitimate popes over the anti-popes of the early twelfth century , and the third the settlement of the Investiture Contest . |
| 6 | Subsequently , revivals reinvest in meanings closer to the originals but inevitably transformed by the effects of the intervening struggles over the ownership of rock 'n' roll and of its meanings . |
| 7 | The point about this particular division of labour was that women , being outside the union and ignorant of the traditional battles over fat and lean , willingly complied with the work arrangements of the employers . |
| 8 | My guess is he 's been selling off some of the better vintages over the past few years . ’ |
| 9 | In fact , the evidence suggests that at the time of the great debates over defence and the Middle East in 1946 Britain had a realistic view of Soviet intentions in this area — that they fundamentally consisted in a determination to secure access to oil concessions in northern Iran . |
| 10 | They will not normally sing with the boys , but are to sing services by themselves on Wednesdays and with the lay vicars both on Mondays and for one of the four services over weekends , by rotation . |
| 11 | The regions which are leading are in some cases different from those which have been leading in terms of the historic trends over the last four months . |
| 12 | Fujitsu looks to sell 35,000 units of the new models over the next two years . |
| 13 | Interestingly , Blinder ( 1988 ) connects the success of the new classicals over the Keynesians in the 1970s with : the need to be both different and technical to succeed as a ( US ) academic economist ; Keynesian lack of microeconomic underpinnings ; and the rise of a right-wing ideology in the USA . |
| 14 | Mr David Gee , director designate of Friends of the Earth , said the bill had already been weakened by giving big concessions to industry , especially over freedom of information to the public and scope and timetable of the new controls over pollution . |
| 15 | These complex relationships have been central to the fortunes of the two countries over the past three centuries . |
| 16 | PC Whitehouse said he and WPC Larkin were shocked and upset after hearing about the shooting of the other officers over their radio . |
| 17 | The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view . |
| 18 | I am immediately drawn to comment on the technological superiority of the Northumbrian bagpipes over the Scottish bagpipes . |
| 19 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 20 | In the light of the recent debates over the attribution of the prints of Mantegna and his school which arose during the recent exhibition , it was particularly apposite of Christie 's to produce a beautiful impression of ‘ The Flagellation with the Pavement ’ ( B.XIII ) ( lot 30 , est. £120,000–160,000 ) , here attributed to Mantegna with a correspondingly strong estimate . |
| 21 | Erm , under number one erm , is the Chairman aware that the er current talk in Whitehall which has given out the contracts for er new secure accommodation units in various counties that the current talk in Whitehall is that because Leicestershire does n't know its own mind because of the recent votes over secure accommodation that it 's unlikely to get one in the present er round and is n't that a damning indictment erm of the Liberal and Labour parties in this county . |
| 22 | For Comte the fundamental law of human evolution consists in the ‘ growing ascendancy of our humanity over our animality , brought about by a double process , namely the increase of power of the intellect over the instincts and of the other-regarding instincts over the self-regarding ’ . |
| 23 | For a minute they walked in silence hearing the rustle of the long grasses over their shoes . |
| 24 | The last push of the alpine mountains over their own Miocene molasse-detritus is now known in all their constituent ranges . |
| 25 | The threat to European peace arose from the consequences of the slow decline of ‘ the sick man of Europe ’ and to the rivalries of the Christian powers over the disposal of the Ottoman patrimony . |
| 26 | Bernice threw five of the pink cans over the side of the motorspeeder . |
| 27 | In 18 acres of tropical gardens on Teluk Bahang 's beachfront , the rooms are designed to make the most of the magnificent views over the sea . |
| 28 | Most of the legislative changes over the last twenty years , for example , have had the effect of increasingly making teachers the implementors of a job description that has been concocted elsewhere . |
| 29 | There is constant negotiation between the whips of the main parties over the use of parliamentary time . |
| 30 | Kaskelot is one of the main features over a weekend of celebrations to mark 200 years of canals . |