Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An estimated 750,000 people are expected to visit Liverpool Castle over the next 12 months . |
| 2 | The EC had , among other things , ( i ) financed the construction of a road through one of Zaïre 's forests so as to increase production at a meat processing plant ; ( ii ) financed timber extraction projects in Equatorial Guinea designed to quadruple timber production over the next four years ; and ( iii ) financed the Carajás iron ore project in the state of Pará , Brazil , which had destroyed much of the Amazon rainforest , had led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians after the opening up of their habitat 10 years earlier and had consumed 4,000,000 tonnes of charcoal each year to smelt the iron ore into pig iron . |
| 3 | ‘ The one thing this game teaches you is control , ’ added Davis , no doubt referring to the missing quality that has cost Higgins dear over the years . |
| 4 | He argues that the role of government in distributing ‘ largesse ’ ( in the form of licences , social welfare , subsidies , government contracts and the like ) , has increased government power over the individual . |
| 5 | RISCs WITH FASTEST CLOCKS SEEN WINNING PERFORMANCE BATTLE OVER THE SUPERSCALARS |
| 6 | He confessed that he had ‘ missed playing Test cricket over the past couple of years ’ but had never lost the belief that he would one day play for his country again . |
| 7 | ‘ ONE member , one vote , ’ demanded John Smith when he was elected to be Labour 's leader , wanting to end trade-union influence over the choice of Labour 's parliamentary candidates . |
| 8 | THE traders threatening to sue Darlington Council over the pedestrianisation of Skinnergate are wasting their time . |
| 9 | PRISON officers are threatening to take strike action over the privatisation of the prison service . |
| 10 | The Mail on Sunday is the only other newspaper to have shown sales growth over the period , rising to 1,958,660 from 1,902,706 in 1990 . |
| 11 | A survey of the US top 100 firms by Public Accounting Report showed that almost 25% had seen revenue fall over the past 12 months , with a further 20% reporting growth of less than inflation . |
| 12 | He had come into his earldom only two years ago , very shortly after the scandal which had sent Dunbar storming over the border into England in dudgeon , and asking for a safe-conduct to King Henry 's court ; for the old earl had died very soon after the coup on which he had staked so much , leaving this new Archibald Douglas to step into his shoes . |
| 13 | Now lecturers at the university are poised to take strike action over the affair . |
| 14 | On Nov. 3 it had been reported that a US nuclear-powered submarine , the Topeka , had entered the Gulf in a move intended to underline US concern over the imminent delivery of the first of two Kilo class Russian diesel submarines to the Iranian port of Banda Abbas [ see p. 39122 ] , with a third said to be on option . |