Example sentences of "of [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture |
| 2 | The symbolic roles of political leaders preoccupied Pareto and Mosca , who characterized them in a persistently cynical way as outright manipulation or fraud , simple tricks essential to the maintenance of elite control over the mass . |
| 3 | Tightening of CCP control over press |
| 4 | I have two , one based on a need for nourishment ( a pint of ice-cold Gold Top milk — not for the faint of stomach ) and the other to combat dehydration ( about a pint of tonic water over lots of ice and Angostura bitters ) and that ashtray mouth feeling . |
| 5 | An excess of GP referrals over other referrals of women informally admitted was matched by an excess of female over male GP referrals who were informally admitted . |
| 6 | Since a patient 's recall of drug history over the years is an unreliable measure for determining the extent of laxative abuse , we endeavoured to correlate the incidence of pseudomelanosis coli with the endoscopic diagnosis of colorectal diseases . |
| 7 | We 've got a lot of electronics wizards over here you know . ’ |
| 8 | A better memorial to him is the statue of Cardinal Wolsey over the gate to Christ Church College , Oxford , which he caused to be erected and underneath which he is named in a Latin inscription . |
| 9 | This , arguably , provides a diffuse but important form of decision control over the managers . |
| 10 | The dominance of wave action over current action in longshore movement is emphasised by estimates of the relative importance of movement as bed load and as suspended load summarised by Komar ( 1976 ) . |
| 11 | In two large and representative necropsy studies the cumulative incidence of prostate cancer over all ages was found to be 32.9% and 18.2% . |
| 12 | Resignation of Chancellery official over BND scandals — Honecker issue |
| 13 | The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " . |
| 14 | Patrick Phillips has been at loggerheads with the residents of Long Melford over recently-approved plans to divert part of a public footpath which runs along the approach to his Grade I-listed home Kentwell Hall . |
| 15 | It is important , too , that close attention is paid to image building ( e.g. banks and insurance companies must be seen to be stable , reliable institutions , but with a friendly , non-intimidating attitude — an image which banks in particular have spent a lot of money fostering over the past decade ) . |
| 16 | The direct mechanism is where an increase in money supply leads people directly to spend the resulting excess of money supply over money demand . |
| 17 | This involved setting targets each year for the growth of money supply over the following four years : the targets got progressively tighter over the four years , thus ‘ putting the squeeze on inflation ’ . |
| 18 | Given the close relationship between three month interbank rates and base rates , this provides a good guide to the money market 's expectation of the path of base rates over the next twelve months . |
| 19 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 20 | NASA satellite surveys had revealed record levels of chlorine monoxide over parts of North America and Europe during some days in January . |
| 21 | The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of , say , one to three years , selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period . |
| 22 | In this way the influence of revenue source over programme content was minimized . |
| 23 | Given the halving of living standards over the past year , this was an even more remarkable result . |
| 24 | The monopoly of Osaka merchants over the rice market , and Osaka 's role as a supply source for the demands of Edo and elsewhere , brought substantial prosperity . |
| 25 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 26 | While the actual canals , together with their locks , bridges and wharfs , have their own intrinsic interest , far more significant is the fact that they allowed the easy and cheap movement of bulk cargoes over long distances . |
| 27 | Densely-worked fields of circular shapes and spiralling lines have characterised the paintings of Pat Adams over many years . |
| 28 | This referred to Barvas , and has some bearing upon recent papers regarding the ‘ spread ’ of Petasites hybridus over the machair ( Currie , 1977 , Naylor & Cumming , 1892 ) . |
| 29 | In a tank without undergravels you have a choice ; either sprinkle a thin layer of coral sand over the base , or leave it bare and let algae grow there , making it easier for cleaning . |
| 30 | This social creation of significant labels can be demonstrated by noting how the salience of labels changes over time . |