Example sentences of "[noun] have over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | DG has over the last three to four years put a good deal of energy into reducing that cost base , but now , even with a quarterly breakeven level reduced to $270m from $350m , the company is struggling to make ends meet . |
| 2 | The restrictive conditions governing the leap-frog appeal reflect the usual caution over the introduction of innovations and the real misgivings some members of the judiciary had over the introduction of the procedure . |
| 3 | More generally , the link between the last three sections of this book is Tolkien 's perception , from Pearl and from poems like it , that poetry does not reduce to plain sense ( so far most critics would agree with him ) , but furthermore that this is because words have over the centuries acquired meanings not easily traced in dictionaries , available however to many native speakers , and ( this is where many critics part company ) at times breaking through the immediate intentions of even poetic users . |
| 4 | However , the technology is moving very fast and , as pen computers come into common usage , prices will fall as dramatically as the prices of conventional computers have over the last couple of years . |
| 5 | Family Assurance Society 's managed funds have over the past 13 years produced overall growth rates averaging 17% per annum . |
| 6 | Bro Cernyw Aelwyd has over the years won in almost all sections of the Urdd 's activities , from Eisteddfod competitions to darts , pool , five-a-side football and twice runners up in the national quiz competition . |
| 7 | This typically increases the control the experimenter has over the situation , however , the results of these studies have been much more varied . |
| 8 | You may ( or may not ) be interested to see what fixtures the scum have over the festive season . |
| 9 | Fishkeepers should always bear in mind that the majority of their fish have over the period of evolution become adapted to live in a certain environment — sea , river , swamp , lake , etc … each with its own specific limits of water chemistry and quality . |
| 10 | The consistent purpose in all the changes is to expand the control individuals have over the work situation , their autonomy from management and their voluntary interdependence . |
| 11 | Another advantage Granada has over the competition , he says , is that unlike the big vendors now scurrying onto the marketplace to boost revenues , Granada — structured around the Data Processing Customer Engineering Plc acquisition and sundry add-ons — has been in the game for years and knows its strengths and weaknesses . |
| 12 | The army absorbed most of the Scottish gentry who hoped to make their living from the sword , but there were also many Scots in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines , and those who entered the senior service appear to have been attracted by the substantial advantages which the navy had over the army for a gentleman of limited means . |
| 13 | Their training and the pressure to conform to state rules and regulations have over the years made them appear to their pupils , and many parents , as agents of the regime . |
| 14 | The big advantage WindowWorks has over the competition is that it supports OLE . |
| 15 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 16 | A good illustration of this is the lack of certainty that many young people have over the question of how to address their parents and parents-in-law after marriage . |
| 17 | Ask yourself these questions : How much influence do finance people have over the achievement of your goals ? |
| 18 | Yet such a view is contrary to the spirit of much of the rest of this work , where we emphasize the limited control that the government has over the private sector . |
| 19 | If a local authority behaved as the Government have over the sale of public assets , its members would be disqualified and taken before the district auditor and might have to spend some time in gaol — and quite right , too . |
| 20 | A farmer 's wife of Middle Farm has over the years developed a very attractive plant and shrub centre with success . |
| 21 | Taking a cue from Robert Indiana 's emblemised letterings of the 1960s , Matt Mullican has over the years built a rich vocabulary of geometric symbols which he has used and re-used in a variety of formats . |
| 22 | Each of these assets has over the fullness of time authored its own particular problems and dilemmas . |
| 23 | There was one practical advantage which our miniature world had over the world outside the wire . |
| 24 | The only advantage these videos have over the live experience is that you 're guaranteed a clean toilet with paper and towels and you can stop them to make a cup of tea . |
| 25 | While environmental groups have over the years been highly critical of pollution caused by coal-fired power stations , in particular the levels of emissions of sulphur dioxide and other gases that cause acid rain , neither Friends of the Earth nor Greenpeace nor other groups has expressed support for the scaling down of the coal industry along the lines proposed by the government . |
| 26 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | ‘ The Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby have over the years provided us with very useful earthquake data and are helping us monitor the after shocks which are sill being felt in the Tari area . ’ |
| 28 | And another bankruptcy , involving Braniff Airlines , reminded everyone of the stranglehold the Big Eight carriers have over the domestic market . |