Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while a majority of informed public opinion , the target of persistent lobbying over so long a period , moved decisively towards outright abolition , fortified by the anomalous decisions resulting from the 1957 Homicide Act , the views of the general public continued to be hostile and mostly out of sympathy with the prevailing climate at Westminster and Whitehall . |
| 2 | The Scottish Secretary , echoing his English counterpart , emphasised shortfalls in basic literacy and numeracy , lack of respect for discipline , lack of parental control over truancy . |
| 3 | Before examining the more recent developments in self-advocacy and normalisation , however , we need to consider the two approaches which have been prominent and have dominated the emergence and style of professional practice over the past 50 years : the medical and educational approaches . |
| 4 | Ackerman also found that in integrated firms there was a great deal of divisional-HQ interaction over significant investments , often extending over several years , and that this was a powerful device for gaining commitment to major projects , although the impetus any project gained was also a function of fairly subjective , often political factors . |
| 5 | Interesting as these figures are , they do not give an accurate indication of the average rate of volcanic activity over time . |
| 6 | The ascendancy of monetary policy over fiscal and incomes policies in the US and UK has damaged investment , and the high interest rates used to deflate the economy benefit — guess whom ? |
| 7 | Although the summit unanimously endorsed the declaration , one foreign minister said later : ‘ We leave Strasbourg with some sense of unfinished business over the German question . ’ |
| 8 | The so-called ‘ disparity ’ is simply that pollen primarily provides an integrated record of regional vegetation over a large area , whereas macrofossils reflect strictly local patterns . |
| 9 | The main tenets of this were nationalisation of foreign concessions , expropriation of large landed estates ( although it was not specified to whom they should be transferred , an omission reflecting the ambivalent attitudes regarding the role of the peasantry , which proved one of the most controversial issues in the debates between Latin American and Soviet Marxisms ) , repudiation of the national debt , rejection of imperialist control over the economy , the fight for an eight-hour day and the ‘ stamping out of semi-slave-like conditions of labour ’ . |
| 10 | DARLINGTON Tory candidate Michael Fallon was yesterday accused of economic illiteracy over claims that Labour 's tax plans would hit public services . |
| 11 | Their rates of economic activity over recent years have followed the male pattern of rapid decline in the 60–4 age group ( from a third in 1973 to less than a fifth in 1988 ) with a similar decline in , the 55–9 age group ( 60 per cent to 48 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Indeed , as the path of economic development over the eighteenth century moved the composition of retained imports away from manufactured goods towards raw mat-erials , the possibility of increasing revenue without harming the productive side of the economy narrowed steadily . |
| 13 | JOHN MAJOR came under fresh pressure over Maastricht yesterday as the Labour leader , John Smith , accused the Government of unnecessary secrecy over the legal status of the controversial legislation on the treaty . |
| 14 | The Party had adopted the principle of complete control over its Parliamentary spokesmen , but the stage had been reached where the MPs were prepared to re-enter the Labour Party rather than be instructed on their actions . |
| 15 | Some kind of garbled nonsense over the phone about something that had happened while you were robbing the place . ’ |
| 16 | Is not the right hon. Gentleman 's attitude to this judgment typical of the decline in standards of political integrity over the 11 years of the regime of the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) ? |
| 17 | Instead , they have explained it in terms of political conflict over the programmes of central government ( particularly after the election of a Conservative government in 1979 ) or longer-term central-local tensions , in which the centre is concerned to minimize the pressure generated by the existence of local political autonomy . |
| 18 | The second feature of bureaucracy which has enlarged its area of political influence over the choices to be made among values , priorities and objectives , rather than merely the technical means to be employed , is the discretionary power of officials . |
| 19 | Unless , that is , they commit the equivalent of political suicide over Europe . |
| 20 | The next chapter , Chapter 6 , returns to the subject of British broadcasting and outlines , in detail , the historical relationship between broadcasting and politics and the nature , and extent , of political control over broadcasting . |
| 21 | In discussions on economic and monetary union ( EMU — proceeding in parallel with those on political union ) EC Finance Ministers reached broad agreement on March 18 on the appropriate level of political control over the proposed European central bank ( Eurofed ) . |
| 22 | The rules were imposed on privatised companies in the wake of political trouble over the lucrative sale of undervalued assets like British Aerospace 's disposal of Royal Ordnance factories which had been in the public sector for centuries . |
| 23 | To take the Liberals first , it had been a commonplace of political analysis over previous years to regard the Liberal vote as largely a product of temporary disillusion with the Tories following on periods of Tory government , as a protest vote . |
| 24 | Agitation over the Irish question had assumed the proportions of a major political threat in the 1860s , bread riots were not unknown in London in this period , and in the shadow of the second Reform Bill of 1867 there had been occasions of political violence over voting reforms . |
| 25 | On April 22 a statement by the Presidential Council had stressed that the new constitution would ensure " the supremacy of Islamic sharia over all legislation " . |
| 26 | A list that sets out the items carefully in red ink , a thin trail of watery blood over the paper . |
| 27 | His face is transformed into one of rapturous pleasure over which suffuses a boyish sense of fun . |
| 28 | The action is set in a south London council flat of hideous squalor over the Easter weekend of 1990 , and it begins with a young man effing and blinding in a crescendo of impotent , inarticulate fury , before picking up a television and hurling it across the room . |
| 29 | The question of interim control over nuclear weapons in Ukraine had been removed from the agenda after preparatory Foreign and Defence Ministers ' meetings on July 3-4 ( not including Moldova 's Defence Minister ) , as it was felt that there was no likelihood of an agreement at the summit . |
| 30 | In February 1951 , a huge rally in support of Spanish sovereignty over Gibraltar was staged in Barcelona , and Franco declared 4 August " Gibraltar Day " . |