Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The River Wye Raft Race … a gruelling hundred miles through Herefordshire to Wales … was won in record time over the Bank Holiday . |
| 2 | Featuring an exceptional collection of photographs , informative illustrations and maps , this book combines first hand accounts along with historical facts and figures relating to air combat over the past 78 years . |
| 3 | ‘ The tremendous progress made at Wembley Stadium over the past five years is very impressive and is much admired in France , where it was recently described in glowing terms as ‘ La Tempe du Football ’ , ’ said Lionel Dreksler , director of the French national stadium . |
| 4 | This is the antidote being offered for employer anxiety over the rise of so-called ‘ soft-skills ’ — such as understanding , relationships and integrity — in modern corporate life . |
| 5 | On the 6th S/L W M Kynock took the veteran Lancaster to Ijmuiden in Holland , but owing to cloud cover over the target , the Master Bomber turned back Sugar and the rest of the Lancaster force and no attack was made . |
| 6 | We are extremely critical of the strategy outlined in draft guidance because it seeks to meet a projected near doubling in aggregates consumption over the 20 year period 1991 to 2011 . |
| 7 | We are extremely critical of the strategy outlined in draft guidance because it seeks to meet a projected near doubling in aggregates consumption over the 20 year period 1991 to 2011 . |
| 8 | A report on the sand and gravel resources of the country around Strachan and Auchenblae , published during the year , completes a programme of six such surveys of sand and gravel resources undertaken in Grampian Region over the last 15 years . |
| 9 | The club negotiated with Limerick City over the weekend . |
| 10 | Using ADS. air traffic controllers will be able to monitor movements of suitably equipped aircraft automatically , building up a radar-like picture of their positions in areas beyond the range of radar cover , ADS is likely to be introduced into routine service over the North Atlantic between the mid-1990s and the turn of the century . |
| 11 | A wind of change has been blowing around Windsor Park over the past 12 months and Campbell is now regarded as just another new player who will breeze in . |
| 12 | Written by a team of physicians at the forefront of AIDS research in Britain , the fully revised 2nd Edition of this widely acclaimed atlas now brings you right up to date with the most significant developments and advances in AIDS research over the past two years . |
| 13 | The threat of the 1974 Act was the challenge posed to agency control over the enforcement of regulatory deviance by publicity and a strict liability law . |
| 14 | The Commission is currently demanding greater powers to pronounce on merger policy over the heads of the member states . |
| 15 | ‘ Not many of the original lot that landed at La Breche five days ago , ’ I replied , ‘ There have been a lot of casualties since the landing , many of them caused by mortar fire over the past few days . |
| 16 | What part of any contraction in the demand for elderly workers has been caused by state action over the setting of pension eligibility terms , and what part has been due to the autonomous decisions of employers , must for the moment remain an open question . |
| 17 | Rejecting the simultaneous freeing of prices for most goods and services ( the so-called " Polish variant " ) , Ryzhkov announced " a stage-by-stage introduction of market methods of price formation combined with state control over the level and movement of prices " . |
| 18 | Culled largely from pieces that first appeared in Melody Maker over the last few years , it amounts to the precise , enthusiastic explication of ‘ bliss ’ ; a kind of untidy sensual and emotional confusion engendered by the disruptive , abnormal qualities of his favourite music ( which includes the Pixies , Sonic Youth and Public Enemy ) . |
| 19 | The barring of non-Estonian citizens , mostly Russians , Ukrainians and Byelarussians , drew protests from the Russian leadership and appeared to fuel tension over the issue of Russian troop withdrawal from Estonia [ see this page ] . |
| 20 | The satellite passed at 800km altitude over the EISCAT field-of-view , observing the same field line as the UHF radar at 10:11UT . |
| 21 | Apparently the un-group is getting skittish about its voice being heard at Comdex Spring over the din the Big Green Machine , Microsoft , will be making . |
| 22 | Apparently the un-group is getting skiddish about its voice being heard at Comdex Spring over the din the Big Green Machine , Microsoft , will be making . |
| 23 | Figure 7.3 shows the values of figure 7.2 expressed as percentage change over the period 1961–81 . |
| 24 | Hybridization signals were quantified by densitometric scanning of these blots and levels of induction are expressed as fold increase over the signals in untreated controls . |
| 25 | Bile secretion was increased in a dose-dependent fashion by intracerebroventricular neuropeptide Y. The peak increase was seen after 500 pM/kg of neuropeptide Y which resulted in a 30.2% increase in bile flow over the period 30–150 minutes after injection . |
| 26 | At the highest dose examined ( 500 pM/kg ) , it resulted in a 30.2% increase in bile output over the period 30–150 minutes after injection when compared with control ( control : 23.2 ( 1.2 ) ml/2 hours ; neuropeptide Y : 30.6 ( 1.1 ) ml/2 hours ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 27 | At present , climate patterns — including the 0.3C to 0.6C increase in air temperature over the past 100 years — were on the same scale as natural variations . |