Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the can was half empty , he pulled open the rear door of the car , leaned in and liberally splashed most of the remaining gasoline over the spacious interior . |
| 2 | LABOUR leader John Smith today led a fresh assault on John Major 's ‘ broken pledges ’ as Tory MPs anxiously counted the cost of the political row over the threat to free prescriptions . |
| 3 | Because of the political impasse over the past ten years Cambodia , one of the poorest countries in the world , has received no UN development aid , nor any bilateral or multilateral development aid from the UK . |
| 4 | In the US , rap has been pushed to the forefront of the political debate over censorship after a shop owner was successfully prosecuted for selling ‘ obscene ’ records by the 2 Live Crew . |
| 5 | ‘ The task was not easy because along with the rise in numbers of factory committees each one had a tendency to multiply its prerogatives and to treat each factory as an independent unit of production , the collective property of its own workers , determining by itself production , sales and pricing , while the social domination of the working class over the means of production required that the atomised and contradictory powers of the factory committees be subordinated to a common political end ’ ( my translation A.C. ) . |
| 6 | I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last . |
| 7 | While I sympathise with the points raised by Mrs White I regret that they are a result of the actions of the general public over which the Regional Council has no control . |
| 8 | As a result of the general squeeze over the past year ITN has turned to additional revenue raisers . |
| 9 | In the wake of the international outcry over the shipment of 1.7 tons of highly toxic plutonium from France to Japan [ see ED 62 and 65/66 ] , the Japanese authorities have decided to abandon plans to import plutonium in this way . |
| 10 | Right so something like that and so this represent I mean you can figure this line as being sort of the real wage over the time you mention increasing throughout . |
| 11 | Dealers have reported some very heavy selling of the nil-paid stock over the last fortnight and yesterday 's rise , with the ordinary shares up 16 at 693p and the rights stock up 16 at 85p , was dismissed as a technical bounce . |
| 12 | In a quiet period after the end of the Second World War in 1945 the Secretary of Commissions , responsible for the appointment of the lay magistracy over the country as a whole , found that days passed when no letter came into his office and no letter went out . |
| 13 | The transformation of the Japanese economy over the past 30 years has been highlighted by its stunning record of growth in output , productivity and exports . |
| 14 | It is this autonomy , the dominance of the aesthetic function over the other elements in a work , which justifies the existence of a literary science . |
| 15 | The Garden City implied the primacy of the central city over a surrounding hinterland , but the subsequent contribution of Patrick Geddes was more explicit , advocating civic and regional surveys to demonstrate the interlinkages between a town and its region . |
| 16 | But the creation of the European Community over 30 years ago was inspired by the idea of no more war in Europe . |
| 17 | At the top of the blind , turn 1.5cm ( ⅝in ) to the wrong side and pin and tack the soft side of the touch-and-close fastener over the raw edge . |
| 18 | PREMIER John Major 's hopes for an end to his troubles were blown away within hours of the three-vote victory over Europe . |
| 19 | One does not have to be a Marxist to observe that by comparison something seems to have gone badly wrong in the capitalist societies of the Western world over the last two decades . |
| 20 | A descent of the western slope over rough ground leads to a confluence of streams that now goes forward as Hell Gill Beck , still forming the county boundary and being accompanied by a track as it heads south-west . |
| 21 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 22 | Since then a strong movement has developed using the oral history/life story method to document the tragic experiences of the ordinary population over the last seventy years . |
| 23 | But , more important , what casts a large shadow over its future are the likely changes in the size of the eighteen-year-old population over the next dozen years or so . |
| 24 | The model can not explain N/R asymmetry nor the dominance of one half of the great circle over the other . |
| 25 | Although the map shows the distribution of the variable INFMORT over the countries of Africa , it is not satisfactory for two reasons . |
| 26 | And it was his successor , William de Turbe ( 1146–74 ) who , two generations later , had to extend the limits of the successful town over the marshland to the north , where he established another market place and built the church of St Nicholas beside it . |
| 27 | And topped up again to pay for the repair of the flat roof over the kitchen , and the man who had done the work should have been prosecuted for fraud . |
| 28 | His main contribution to the understanding of ancient geography lay in his personal knowledge of the relevant topography over a wide area , combined with a natural appreciation of the writings of the geographers themselves , especially Strabo . |
| 29 | That seems possible because in one of Jacob 's books , Cornet à Dés , there was a dedication to Modigliani in the edition published in 1917 which was deleted subsequently , presumably as a result of the mysterious quarrel over Beatrice . |
| 30 | This paradox underlies much of the contentious discussion over whether the English village has or has not suffered a ‘ loss of community ’ through recent changes in its social composition . |