Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 The final element in the policy making process is the response to developments over which governments have no control .
2 That would certainly make a welcome change , since the weakness of trade over the last year or so has clearly deepened the recession .
3 But when average shrinkage — the retailers ' word for shoplifted goods — is expressed as a percentage of net profit before tax , the position is much worse , reflecting the reduction in profits over the last two years .
4 The British Broadcasting Corporation has extended its 30-year relationship with ICL Plc with two new contracts for the provision of services over the next six years : first , ICL 's CFM facilities management subsidiary will run the Beeb 's mainframe bureau operation in Feltham , West London on ICL Series 39 SX mainframes ; second , the BBC is taking advantage of ICL 's Open Hire agreement in its move to a distributed Unix computing environment .
5 Policy changes in the 1970s moved the provision for people over retirement age towards a wholly wage-related scheme of insurance .
6 In 1940 , Thomson was considered as one of the portraitists , but his deafness was considered enough to disqualify him , and the post went to Eric Kennington who however resigned in 1942 over criticism of the ‘ violence ’ of his portraits , and now without an explanation for the change of heart over his deafness Thomson was appointed to succeed him .
7 This applies most readily to a partnership , for example , where the financial statements are concerned with showing wealth and the change in wealth over the period .
8 A subsequent stage could then monitor the change in output over time and locate edges at the points at which the cell 's output changes from below to above background as the edge sweeps over the receptive field .
9 It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others .
10 The struggle for control over the Baltic republics is rapidly being overtaken by a bigger struggle for power in the Soviet Union .
11 Most difficult to resolve in the struggle for jurisdiction over clerks who were charged with crimes was whether they could be tried twice , as clause three of the royal Constitutions of Clarendon ( 1164 ) outlined , first in the king 's court and then in the church court , and whether , if found guilty , they should be handed over to a civil court for the passing of the sentence .
12 First , it kept the school-leaver within the realms of dependence , emphasizing the need for guidance and employment advice ; and , secondly , it led to the eruption of a lively dispute between the Board of Education and the Board of Trade over which department should have final authority for adolescent workers in the administration of the Labour Exchanges Act 1909 .
13 The study assembled evidence on the sources of funds for social science research in Britain during the 1980 's and the patterns of expenditure by subject and type of research , and examined changes in the patterns of funding over time .
14 Does the Prime Minister accept responsibility for the chaos and confusion at the heart of Governments over the Poll Tax ?
15 Moreover , the committee , to be commended for having conducted its extensive researches and drawn its conclusions within a few months , has the advantage of immediacy over the Clark and Palmer committees , which sat over so long a period , in a rapidly changing environment , that eventually no one who was still able to recall the original brief was sure whether it was still relevant to the prevailing situation .
16 The advantage of fondant over royal icing for covering cakes is that it is much easier and quicker to make , is more pliable and has a softer texture that many people prefer .
17 The advantage of CISCs over RISCs , however , is the ability to transfer software from one machine to a more complex , faster model as most manufacturers provide customers with object code and not the source code .
18 Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole .
19 While classical factors were often present , and for brief periods predominated , Keynesian factors were the proximate forces accounting for the rise in unemployment over this period .
20 From another quarter , Baroness Faithfull took issue in 1979 with the ‘ simplistic belief ’ in the short-sharp-shock remedy which she viewed as no less foolish than ‘ the theories of those false prophets of permissiveness at whose door must be laid a considerable part of the blame for the rise in crime over the last two decades ’ .
21 Tory MPs on the brink of rebellion over Council Tax
22 In an ugly incident in November , armed raiders forced staff at the Athena/Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop on Oxford Street , London , to hand over at gunpoint around £4,500 from the safe and left them locked in the basement with tape over their mouths .
23 Law consulted Lansdowne on all matters of importance , kept him informed of the progress of negotiations over Ulster , but found him difficult to convince of the merits of compromise .
24 If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne .
25 The consequence of Oswiu 's decision at Whitby , therefore , was the destruction of the authority of Iona in Anglo-Saxon territory and the restoration of the authority of the archbishop of Canterbury over the northern Angles .
26 The couple have clashed with the Archbishop of York over their wish .
27 Rave kids should be throwing petrol bombs at the Houses Of Parliament over the way their right to party has been thrown in the proverbial dumper , but they are n't .
28 Commander Genda went through the plans in detail over the next ten days and came to the conclusion that it was possible and , although hazardous , had a reasonable chance of success .
29 The introduction is an essay by Octavio Paz in which he stresses the isolation in which the civilisations of the Americas evolved ( as opposed to Europe with contacts from the East ) and he examines the reactions of Europeans over the years to Mexican art .
30 You would think he was a gypsy until you looked closer at his blue eyes and the dusting of freckles over his apple-blossom cheeks .
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