Example sentences of "over [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguments over using the ‘ Jarman index ’ to assess demand for services and the method of payment have obscured the principle underlying the payments . |
| 2 | Just as thirty years before , here again were feminist divisions over using the repressive state to enforce women 's demands . |
| 3 | Home and Away ( ITV , 1.45pm/6.00pm ) : Fin has pangs of conscience over using the stolen exam papers . |
| 4 | Well the place where I was lived up we were called er er the we were Upper Islay , over passed the fence , aha . |
| 5 | Crisis over financing the east |
| 6 | Artur Balazs , Minister without Portfolio responsible for contacts with political parties , resigned on April 24 because of differences with Olszewski over widening the coalition . |
| 7 | The rumbling row with the unions over ending the block vote is a classic example of its suicidal tendencies . |
| 8 | The new Bill reflects the dilemma over protecting the children , the difficulties in obtaining medical evidence to substantiate suspicions of abuse , and the need to meet demands for parental rights in the wake of the Cleveland affair . |
| 9 | As Whately Cook Taylor put it in 1874 , ‘ Hitherto , whatever the laws have touched , they have not dared invade the sacred precinct ’ , and such reluctance dictated the hesitations over passing the incest law until 1908 . |
| 10 | For those reasons as I , have I , hoped made plain , it seems to me that the general scheme provided by Mrs is the one that ought to be adopted , however in my view when Mrs also makes provision for a second carer for some three hours a day that is well over egging the pudding , if I may adopt a phrase used by Mr at one stage during the case , I feel sure that in practice the two resident carers would not simply say well I 'm on duty from eight am on Monday till twelve midday on Thursday and I shall do nothing during the rest of the week , I think that living in the household for , at |
| 11 | I 'm just wondering if you 're over egging the pudding there . |
| 12 | Nicky Walker falls into that category , too , and Roxburgh observed that he had ‘ no worries ’ over blooding the goalkeeper in this match . |
| 13 | Notwithstanding our reservations over exporting the impact of the unsustainable demands of Wales and England to these locations , or the likelihood that aggregates companies would choose this option as opposed to taking up old planning permissions , we wish to make it clear that we would be fiercely opposed to any proposal for a super quarry along the coastline of Wales . |
| 14 | Notwithstanding our reservations over exporting the impact of the unsustainable demands of Wales and England to these locations , or the likelihood that aggregates companies would choose this option as opposed to taking up old planning permissions , we wish to make it clear that we would be fiercely opposed to any proposal for a super quarry along the coastline of Wales . |
| 15 | Assistant county planning officer Alfreda Thistlethwaite said negotiations between the National Trust and Government departments over buying the land were at a crucial stage . |
| 16 | Capacitor discharging over over running the opposite way and then that 's not drawn properly but you know what |
| 17 | This is a time of austerity , of playing with ration books , of knowing we are " overcrowded " , of squabbles between the women over doing the stairs and cleaning the toilet that are handed down to us children in the form of sectarian rivalries . |
| 18 | We are aware of the concern over undermining the basic generalist qualification and I would stress that there is no question of imposing the need to specialise on members . ’ |
| 19 | Some agreement was reached over controlling the import of arms , the drawing up of buffer zones and the release of prisoners and hostages . |
| 20 | When for once it is stated that Sir Raynold , the chaplain of Ridlington , Norfolk , owned a house and three acres , the reason must have been some difficulty over determining the value , which in this case is omitted . |
| 21 | There remained doubts over implementing the accord , particularly because right-wing factions in the military and the wealthy ruling oligarchy had not been party to the talks , and because hardline elements within the FMLN might not accept the dropping of a previous key demand that either the army be disbanded or its ranks be reduced and the remainder merged into those of the guerrillas . |
| 22 | Having complained on several occasions of the Church 's reticence over taking the moral lead , on this occasion her plea was successful . |
| 23 | Turning her back to Ginny , Barbara tugged open a drawer and took her time over choosing the cutlery . |
| 24 | That 's why it 's worth taking some trouble over choosing the right bath toys . |
| 25 | Only two years earlier the Twelve had battled at epic length over increasing the EC budget for the years to 1992 from 0.7 per cent of each member state 's gross national product to nearly 1.2 per cent , with the ceiling fixed at over £30 billion . |
| 26 | The former American ambassador to Yugoslavia , Warren Zimmerman , confirmed the US had made its position clear to Serbia over broadening the war from Bosnia . |
| 27 | The modern obsession with transplantation takes precedence over finding the causes of organ disease . |
| 28 | And that 's no different from the uncertainty over winning the multi-million contract with Tashenu 's . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Although the details of Clinton 's draft record were tortuously complex and , by common consent , of limited relevance to the presidential campaign , Republicans made some effective political capital from the repeated suggestion that he had been evasive over admitting the truth of the matter . |