Example sentences of "in [verb] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempting to get to grips with all the developments in nursing over the past five years is meat enough for any expert , and you will not be regarded as letting the side down just because you are not familiar with all the latest terminology or research in your clinical specialty . |
| 2 | However , Poulantzas argues that , in smoothing over the structural contradictions of society and rendering it coherent , the state simultaneously maintains existing classes . |
| 3 | However , comparative studies of Wyrwoll & smyth ( 1985 ) , who suggested that the ‘ improved ’ performance may be partly a function of shape-influenced deficiencies in the sieving technique , led to the conclusion that only a marginal improvement in fitting over the log-normal curve was achieved . |
| 4 | Those that do may only display the differences for a matter of weeks or even days before the whole crop ripens , so there is an element of luck in flying over the right place at the right time . |
| 5 | MCA were particularly effective in winning over the local media , notably the freesheet newspapers . |
| 6 | The General had no success in winning over the Big Three to his concept of a decentralized Germany , and he was excluded from the critical summits where Germany 's future was discussed . |
| 7 | According to government figures issued on Dec. 1 more than 270 people were killed in several simultaneous attacks by rebels on Nov. 23 and in fighting over the succeeding days in the capital Bujumbura and in the north-western provinces of Cibitoke and Kayanza . |
| 8 | A report prepared for the United States State Department , published in September 1989 , stated that the Somali armed forces had " purposely murdered " at least 5,000 civilians in fighting over the previous two years . |
| 9 | Until the Public Records Act 1958 the care and preservation of public records were in the hands of the Master of the Rolls , an anachronistic responsibility for a senior judge who in his modern incarnation is fully occupied in presiding over the civil work of the Court of Appeal . |