Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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1 | The examples he provides , of " dribbling payments of a shilling or two " for house repairs , funerals , clothes , tools and medicines and for tiding over occasional hard times , can be multiplied from a number of local studies . |
2 | A total of 875 µg of somatostatin were administered before and after ERCP over a 150 minute period . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | In fact , in 1932–33 , without all the goals of the FFYP having been achieved , 6.7 million workers and employees were working in Soviet factories , an increase of more than 110% over that of 1928 , and of 65% over the planned number of workers ! |
5 | The ending of the monopoly of solicitors over house sales conveyancing and of opticians over the sale of spectacles has already been noted . |
6 | Government decisions , national and international , negotiations with producers over prices and with unions over wages , etc. , depend increasingly on such measures . |
7 | The details of this highly publicised scheme are well documented ( eg Challis , 1988 ) , its main features being : the employment of social workers as case managers , with case loads of 25 to 30 dependent elderly people , and with control over a decentralised budget to enable additional facilities or care ( in the shape of specially recruited local helpers ) to be purchased over and above the receipt of normal services . |
8 | On June 8 Andre Milongo was elected Prime Minister with the power to appoint members of the government and with control over the armed forces . |
9 | This finding argues for alternative programmes and measures for application among countries and within countries over time . |
10 | Weick ( 1985 ) says that , because people persist in simplifying the world , they do not see the differentiations between organizations and within organizations over time . |
11 | Some UK sewage farms have run off sludge gas for years , and in China over one million digesters produce methane from human and animal sewage to provide gas for cooking . |
12 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
13 | I would have thought that in many ways the divisions which exist in this country and in Europe over religious matters are not largely to do with our past . |
14 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
15 | Glass reckons he saw 100 people individually and in groups over a four or five month period . |
16 | The effects of this can be seen both in the current major reviews of BBC funding and in discussions over the future of Channel Four . |
17 | Walking silently and in stealth over the harsh grass I remembered all the things an English gentlewoman should n't do , and the thing my mother had done . |
18 | They can be used in summer on their own over a top sheet and in winter over a quilt or blanket . |
19 | In RENFE since 1976 and in BR over a far longer period , a wide range of agreements have been reached through the machinery , giving the unions influence over the determination of virtually all aspects of conditions of employment and work organization . |
20 | She has become a more equal partner in decision-making , in the enjoyment of sex , and in control over domestic resources . |
21 | The price of most commodities is determined by international economic developments and in markets over which most LDCs have no control . |
22 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
23 | So to what extent is juvenile violence a ‘ constant ’ varying only in style and in detail over time ? |
24 | Major and his Chinese counterpart , Li Peng , also made progress on setting up an independent court of appeal in Hong Kong , on the colony 's right to negotiate trade investment agreements , and on agreement over land controlled by the UK military . |
25 | Although this bone does not yield any absolute sexing criteria , it may be noted that the male clavicle is generally more robust and on average over 1 cm longer than the female ( Parsons , 1916 ) . |
26 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
27 | All required materials are now in situ at the intermediate station , Winchcombe , the trackbed has been prepared , and to date over one third of a mile of track has been laid . |
28 | We have also looked at some of the processes which have contributed to these shifts and at debates over their explanation . |
29 | From the age of about four onwards , and at intervals over the years , Shanti would ask , ‘ Did n't my mother love me ? ’ |
30 | Attempts to co-operate with Hungary were clouded by the failure to agree on the future of the Danube hydro-electric system [ see p. 38161 ] , and by problems over the treatment of national minorities on their respective territories . |