Example sentences of "of [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The standard of play over the past few years has shown a considerable step-up and the cream of the local talent now face a daunting challenge in their bid to reclaim the title for ‘ home ’ keeping . |
| 2 | To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it . |
| 3 | By the end of June , however , the failure to agree on all of the details , together with the lack of progress over the nuclear issue , appeared to have jeopardized the planned exchange . |
| 4 | Where the landlord is able to choose how to divide ownership and responsibility for a party structure it is suggested that the structure be divided between adjoining owners and that each owner have an easement of support over the other 's half . |
| 5 | The pattern of change over the 1970s and 1980s is similar if one considers different definitions of pay or broader classes of worker . |
| 6 | The best we can do is to grow a covering of skin over the stump where the amputation occurred . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 8 | Polling was essential and scurs or ‘ slugs ’ were strictly ruled out , and a fringe of hair over the forehead was desirable . |
| 9 | ‘ Laura … ! ’ he groaned , a deep , compulsive inner hunger shaking his tall figure as her hands trailed gently downwards , following the dark arrow of hair over the taut muscles of his stomach , which clenched violently at her soft touch . |
| 10 | After the previous Armed Forces minister , Archie Hamilton , was replaced by Mr Hanley , Mr Brandreth asked for a meeting in the hope that a change of minister might mean a change of heart over the pay office . |
| 11 | so providing they just play it steadily they should be alright , there 's a lot of discrimination over the Australian defeat in the paper , they reckon that if erm |
| 12 | So spare a thought for their original research they speak with feeling of badly-signed junctions and of chaos over the A1 and its renaming round Tyneside . |
| 13 | Reduce prominent lids with a matte , sludgy shade of eyeshadow over the entire lid , blended away up to the brow . |
| 14 | In recognition to the part Sue Davies has played in the promotion of photography over the years , she was awarded an OBE in 1988 . |
| 15 | During the autumn and winter keep the compost from drying out completely , which means providing some kind of protection over the plant . |
| 16 | There is no doubt that NIA should be an attractive prospect , given the amount of public money which has been ploughed into the expansion of Aldergrove over the past 30 years . |
| 17 | First , Mr Delors — who had earlier sent a furious letter to Mr Major , complaining of Britain 's lack of faith over the TV pact — had kept him waiting for over an hour at Heathrow while his flight from Brussels was delayed by fog . |
| 18 | Some writers have attempted to draw up some general guidelines which relate the weeding of research material to the concept of obsolescence — the diminution in the use of literature over the course of time . |
| 19 | … in every Department a store of knowledge and experience in the subjects handled , something which eventually takes shape as a practical philosophy , or may merit the title of a departmental philosophy … in most cases the departmental philosophy is nothing more startling than the slow accretion and accumulation of experience over the years … |
| 20 | Gary Wolstenholme drew on his wealth of experience over the Hoylake course to give England the all-important point which keeps them on course for a fifth title in a decade . |
| 21 | Codes of practice were supposed to protect the customer , by dangling the threat of expulsion and consequent loss of income over the practitioners . |
| 22 | He or she will receive a flow of income over the year and will engage in a flow of spending over the same period . |
| 23 | Sprint has also announced demonstration of videoconferencing over the Internet sponsored by the National Science Foundation . |
| 24 | High levels of uranium over the geochemically evolved granites such as Cairngorm and Mount Battock argue against using the granites as building stone for internal cladding on account of the potential risk of radon gas emanation . |
| 25 | It privileges the music which Adorno chooses as best representing the contradictory whole — thus alongside Beethoven and the tradition following him other kinds of music ( Berlioz , Rossini , Verdi , Elgar , Stravinsky , Eisler , let alone Lehár , Louis Armstrong , Walter Donaldson or Elvis Presley ) are inevitably presented as partial , that is to say more socially specific , less autonomous ; it also reduces the possibility of struggle over the specific uses and meanings of musical materials and forms : competing ‘ viewpoints ’ are dismissed as ‘ regressive ’ or ‘ false ’ . |
| 26 | Francis Tidbury received a certain amount of sympathy over the following few days , but the public were so outraged at the brutality involved , it carried little weight . |
| 27 | Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group . |
| 28 | Interactive Systems Corp — now SunSoft Inc — began by marketing the product strongly , but later faced a barrage of complaints and problems over speed and stability , and reportedly lost a great deal of money over the venture . |
| 29 | A weekly competition at DPR awarded 1100 and a bottle of champagne to the AE who got in the largest amount of money over the five days . |
| 30 | In accordance with certain theoretical considerations and after some empirical experimentation , Barro obtained the following fairly complex equation as his best estimate of the process determining the annual rate of growth of the quantity of money over the period 1941–73 : where is the rate of growth of the quantity of money predicted by the process shown in equation ( 6.7 ) to occur in period t , and is the actual rate of growth of the quantity of money in period t - i . |