Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 247,400 million peso budget involved increasing spending by 17.9 per cent over the adjusted 1990 budget of 209,800 million pesos . |
| 2 | Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme . |
| 3 | Under U.S. GAAP , such surplus or deficit is amortized to the income statement on a straight line basis over the average remaining service lives of active employees . |
| 4 | Variations in pension cost , which are identified as a result of actuarial valuations , are amortised over the average expected remaining working lives of employees . |
| 5 | These contributions will be charged over the average expected remaining service lives of employees as a fixed percentage of expected future pay . |
| 6 | This is followed by an overflow event and then the main event over the triangular 650 metre circuit of Wellington St. , Church St. and Mill St. Mike Bell from the Merseyside team won in 1990 , lapping all but two of the field in the process . |
| 7 | This gives an equivalent ordinary price on conversion at the moment of 93.6p , a premium of 35.7% over the present ordinary price of 69p . |
| 8 | At a price of 94p for the convertible pref , the equivalent ordinary price on conversion is 884p , a premium of 57% over the present ordinary share price of 564p . |
| 9 | There are no certainties in the field of demography , but on the assumption that present mortality rates at all ages will not worsen , we can be fairly certain about the absolute numbers of men and women over the present statutory retirement pension age ( 60 for women and 65 for men ) well into the twenty-first century — at least until the 2040s — because all of them are already born . |
| 10 | The dream home stood and shrieked like a blatant brassy mistress proclaiming her supremacy over the poor old lovely wife , left to slow decay . |
| 11 | Just a little longer to get oneself into the right frame of mind , run over the right casual , uncommitted phrases . |
| 12 | As a programmer struggles over the fifth tedious revision of a 25-word frame , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that if he had worked this hard on every sentence of the textbooks he had written , these textbooks would probably teach as well as programmes … |
| 13 | Governors were blasted over the weak financial plan for the voluntary aided Rupert Road school . |
| 14 | Governors were criticised over the weak financial plan for the voluntary aided Rupert Road school . |
| 15 | Before midday they were across the border into Luxembourg , surrounded by cliffs looming over the narrow serpentine road . |
| 16 | The marked improvement in the terms of trade for Britain over the early '50s permitted a rise in real wages despite a decline in Britain 's exports , while a substantial inflow of American direct private investment helped to boost capital accumulation . |
| 17 | For the left , the social contract was to be intimately connected with the industrial policy which had been taking shape under the auspices of the National Executive Committee over the early '70s . |
| 18 | Estimate the speed increase in using a ( hypothetical or actual ) block transfer instruction on a computer to which you have access , over the best alternative way of performing the move . |
| 19 | The starsuit was hotter now ; the heat of re-entry and the energy of Lucifer 's interior triumphing over the best human life support technology . |
| 20 | Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history . |
| 21 | But Horton , determined to make amends for missing out by such a narrow margin last year , moved to the front with an excellent 68 but with Coles so close to him , nothing can be taken for granted over the final two rounds . |
| 22 | ‘ Our urgent need is for a bowler , and that 's why we 've failed to knock over the final three wickets in an innings on five occasions this season . |
| 23 | While Foggerty and Sylvester were shaking their heads over the modern young back in the staff-room , Nutty and her team were congregating at the refrigerator factory to take another look at the amazing happening . |
| 24 | To have the thing scraped or vacuumed out of her womb , the very thought of it last night had sent her to the bathroom , heaving over the modern white lavatory . |
| 25 | Richard Montague-Smith was one and half times over the legal drink-drive limit when the accident happened . |
| 26 | The urgency and decisiveness with which he moved over the following six months contrasted markedly with his tentative performance in the post-liberation period and obviously reflected the hard lessons that he had learned . |
| 27 | Over the following six years , they would serve as merchant aircraft carriers , armed merchant cruisers , troopships , hospital ships , catapult armed merchantmen and would carry vital cargoes of fuel , food , ammunition and troops . |
| 28 | That misconception had continued on and off over the following six or seven years . |
| 29 | Tajan will then auction a choice of the best works at the Sporting d'hiver in Monaco on 13 and14 March before returning to the villa to sell the remainder in situ over the following four days . |
| 30 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |