Example sentences of "[noun pl] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not all the Tory dissidents now discussing tactics over individual bills were among the 60 who withheld their votes from her last Tuesday , the arithmetic of the leadership election does raise the question of whether she can rely on her Commons majority in the coming battles . |
| 2 | This essential merging of primary rate and basic rate services will be achieved using the ‘ fractional Megastream ’ technology that the company 's Martlesham Laboratory on Martlesham Heath , Suffolk has developed for squeezing multiple ISDN channels over ordinary copper circuits . |
| 3 | In 1945 , the Marton route was still operating the traditional Standard cars over deteriorating track ( see pages 26/7 ) , and the Manager was campaigning for its modernisation . |
| 4 | He bared well-shaped lips over handsome teeth and smiled around the table . |
| 5 | If you are not going to be carrying heavy weights over rough ground , a range of very lightweight boots becomes available for those short excursions into the country . |
| 6 | Doubts over uv radiation as cause of Chilean illnesses |
| 7 | The Home Secretary in East London was reported this morning to have serious doubts over fixed term contracts and performance related pay , though he would n't confirm this . |
| 8 | Innovative policies during the campaign raise doubts over existing policies , and raise questions over why reforms were n't introduced earlier . |
| 9 | Quite apart from sympathising with some of Britain 's doubts over certain Brussels policies — the Budget proposals in particular — Chancellor Helmut Kohl is especially keen to promote an alliance between European Conservative and Christian Democrat parties . |
| 10 | and briefly the Labour party , we have certain doubts over certain lines there are similarities , good . |
| 11 | Report raises doubts over current approach |
| 12 | Doubts over European Hermes manned shuttle programme |
| 13 | NetManage will in turn resell Network Computing 's PC-Xview X server products for Windows- and MS-DOS-based machines , and the PC-Xremote software , which provides high-speed access to remote personal computers over serial lines . |
| 14 | The transport of sulphates over long distances can lead to reductions in visibility over extensive areas and at locations distant from pollution sources . |
| 15 | Working clothes today were olive-green Bermuda shorts , a matching T-shirt with the IMP logo front and back , and trainers over thin green cotton socks , leaving her long legs bare . |
| 16 | By the end of it , Theridamas accepts that he has been ‘ won with thy words ’ , and this shows how influential Tamburlaine is with his words over other people . |
| 17 | We incorporated lexicon based constraints by implementing a heuristic which preferred longer words over short ones . |
| 18 | To summarise , we used a large lexicon and a sizeable number of utterances , to test an heuristic which preferred long words over short ones , and found that the strategy reduced the number of word paths in all cases . |
| 19 | In the second , we applied lexicon-based constraints by implementing an heuristic which preferred longer words over short ones . |
| 20 | The system simply gives preference to common grammatical combinations over unusual ones . |
| 21 | He was a tall , rangy , large-featured man with a mobile , wide-mouthed face of agreeable ugliness and iron-grey hair which fell in heavy swathes over parchment-coloured skin . |
| 22 | Naggaroth 's dark master had perfected his evil arts over long millennia and for the first time Teclis met a foe that was his match . |
| 23 | It also provided for increased powers for the provincial governments , including a veto for all provinces over future constitutional change . |
| 24 | It also provided for increased powers for the provincial governments , including a veto for all provinces over future constitutional change . |
| 25 | In political terms Nehemiah was a tyrant imposed by the Persians just as much as Histiaeus and others had been imposed as tyrants over Greek cities by the Persian government . |
| 26 | Cragg and Malkiel provided evidence that professional analysts were no more accurate than naive earnings forecasting methods over 5-year horizons . |
| 27 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 28 | It was one of those old-established inns tucked away into the side-streets of London that have somehow avoided being bought over and sanitized by the big chains , an ivy-covered twenty-room place with panelling and bay-windows and a fire blazing in the brick hearth of a reception area furnished in rugs over uneven boards . |
| 29 | Head office staff had plenty of opportunities over recent months to expand their cultural horizons with discount entry to the Young Vic and another successful Black Friars production . |
| 30 | The courts often sit for months over scientific questions — for example , whether whooping cough vaccine caused brain damage — and the GMC may imagine itself stuck with cases lasting months and costing millions . |