Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process is aided and abetted by the trend over the past twenty years to encourage the active participation of fathers in the process of childbirth itself . |
| 2 | Hitler 's proclamation on 24 February 1943 was , in fact , hardly noticed at all by the population , while reactions to the low-key speech on 21 March 1943 were dominated by the speculation over the astonishingly low figures for German war casualties which Hitler had given . |
| 3 | Despite an increase of 8.5% in the public subsidy for national museums in 1991–92 , most are still struggling to come to terms with the squeeze imposed on their budgets by the Treasury over the past few years . |
| 4 | Supporters of official forecasts say the 1982–86 recovery saw an average annual growth rate of 3 per cent — not far removed from the 3.1 per cent average implied by the Treasury over the five years to 1996–97 . |
| 5 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
| 6 | Ramtek Corp , San Jose says it has sold the image processing and remote sensing software technology that underlies the Terrain , Gemsoft36 and Unipixel products , but terms of the sale and the identity of the buyer were not disclosed : Ramtek said it would receive royalty payments based on the sale of any products by the buyer over the next three years and that the sale made sense in light of its planned merger with Mass Microsystems Inc and the combination 's growth potential in the storage market . |
| 7 | The debate aimed at winning more control over policy , staff and top appointments has been fuelled by the row over the party 's policy on water privatisation and the question-mark over the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke . |
| 8 | ‘ I wonder what the Reverend Henry Solly would have said if he had seen the tremendous progress made by the Union over the past few years . ’ |
| 9 | Certain administrative changes at this time appear designed to effect a stricter supervision by the Exchequer over the collection of the Forest revenues , and to lessen the temptation to extortion by the Forest officers . |
| 10 | Estimates of the amount of money saved by the taxpayer over the five-year period vary widely . |
| 11 | The redundancies come on top of five hundred already announced by the firm over the past eighteen months , mostly as a result of cutbacks in defence spending . |
| 12 | Most mortgagees have required specific consent from such persons to the taking of a charge by the mortgagee over the property or where they consent to a transfer of the property subject to the mortgage , coupled with confirmation from such persons that their rights are postponed to those of the mortgagee under its mortgage . |
| 13 | In each case there can be no doubt that the advantages offered by the trust over the civil-law method were significant : performance in specie was a real possibility in each case ; that this was so depended entirely on the fact that trusts were subject to a different procedural order . |
| 14 | BELOW : The walled kitchen garden at Fenton House in Hampstead has been restored by the Trust over the last ten years ( National Trust Photographic Library/Ian Shaw ) |
| 15 | This impression of the object of have being represented as completely submissive to the will of the person referred to by the subject explains moreover the use of the bare infinitive with this verb : this exercise of control by the causer over the causee can be seen as persisting throughout the realization of the infinitive event . |
| 16 | The Government 's Energy Review , triggered by the storm over the pit closures programme , could launch a rational and integrated energy policy based on vastly improved conservation measures and an environmentally ‘ least bad mix ’ of energy sources , or worsen the damage already being caused to the environment . |
| 17 | Always in the leading group , McMahon pushed to the front before the last where he was challenged by the favourite Over the Edge , but keeping his mount perfectly balanced and running as straight as a gun barrel , McMahon found something left in the ‘ Tank ’ and went on to score a snug success . |
| 18 | In a letter to a newspaper earlier this week , Mr Birt adopted the tone of one who was chastened but also slightly puzzled by the uproar over the revelation that the BBC 's top executive was not a member of its staff . |
| 19 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |
| 20 | C = the degree of control exercised by the superior over the subordinate ; |
| 21 | That level of investment , currently running at £1 billion a year , will be sustained by the Government over the public expenditure planning period which runs for the next three years and , I am quite confident , will run over the next 10 years . |
| 22 | The Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) granted a US$425,000,000 loan package on Sept. 18 , primarily aimed to assist the sweeping external trade reforms decreed by the government over the previous year . |
| 23 | Beveridge became more sanguine about the level of full employment which could be achieved at the same time as he proposed less control by the government over the economy . |
| 24 | Late or inadequate action by the government over the production of pollutants is endemic . |
| 25 | £221 million in tax could be easily saved by the simple use of the tax-efficient financial products which have been introduced by the Government over the last ten years ; |
| 26 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 27 | MARY BRYCE admits a certain sympathy for Norman Lamont after his treatment by the press over the past few months . |
| 28 | And , the Sun newspaper has said it intends to fight any High Court action brought by the Queen over the advanced publication of her Christmas broadcast . |
| 29 | ‘ Wait , ’ commanded Coy , then Adam heard him speak to someone else in the room , his voice muffled by the hand over the receiver . |
| 30 | Here , the degree of control exerted by the fieldworker over the speech-exchange is the guiding principle , and the fieldworker 's aim is to get away from interview style ( that is , to lose control ) as soon as possible . |