Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Government yesterday took the unprecedented step of releasing more confidential correspondence between Lord Young and British Aerospace , revealing new details of secret tax breaks and private concessions given by ministers over the Rover deal . |
| 2 | Because of treaty concessions imposed on Egypt over the centuries , the nationals of certain foreign powers had legal privileges . |
| 3 | Employers also try to discourage the mobility of their highly skilled labour because they wish to retrieve the investment made in training over the long term , and they certainly would not want competing firms to poach labour that they have trained . |
| 4 | An account to substantiate his claims showed that there had indeed been a great output with £8,000 paid in Royalty over the last 17 years of operation . |
| 5 | Enrichment of the hydrogen content is accomplished by passing the syn-gas mixed with steam over an iron catalyst , when the mildly exothermic ‘ water gas shift reaction ’ occurs , |
| 6 | An amputee , she could not yet accustom herself to what was lost and gone , lost as her parents scattered in fragments over the Nevada desert . |
| 7 | Neil Owen , who 's councillor for Milton-under-Wychwood , Fifield and Bruern , became an Independent when the eighteen rebels resigned in protest over the Government 's level of Community Charge in west Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | The annual report of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution has predicted a sharp rise in the number of prosecutions made against polluters over the next year . |
| 9 | In general estimates were based on prices achieved for similar pieces offered at auction over the years although no comparable collection has appeared , undoubtedly adding a premium to the value of the works . |
| 10 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 11 | President Bush and Gen Powell insisted that the 12,000 extra troops deployed in Panama over the past 48 hours would be withdrawn ‘ as soon as possible ’ . |
| 12 | THOSE who care about such things are at present locked in combat over the issue of whether the greatest number of British skiers go to Austria ( which traditionally enjoys the distinction ) or to France ( which is the flavour of the decade ) . |
| 13 | This was the first of many palatial properties occupied by Franco over the next forty years — a tendency which is difficult to reconcile with his hagiographers ' insistence that he was a man of austere tastes and habits . |
| 14 | The Susweca Lounge consisted of thirty or so small round tables on an enormous covered veranda built on stilts over the water . |
| 15 | He took the principal part in the synthesis and interpretation of all the gravity observations made in India over the period 1908–13 and made an excellent attempt to interpret these data in the light of evidence recently reported by the American geodesist , J. F. Hayford , as a result of similar surveys in the United States . |
| 16 | The sort of cheap publicity gained by Ukepra over the past week will simply reinforce consumer concern about the integrity of the egg industry and the safety of its product . |
| 17 | The statistics issued by ICAO over the last three decades show beyond any doubt that , despite a vast increase in the number of people taking to the air each year , the likelihood of any public transport passenger being killed diminishes . |
| 18 | That night she was perched on her stool wearing her cape trimmed with marabou over the dress . |
| 19 | The first of these contains details on 61 surveys conducted by SCPR over the past six years : a total of about 3,000 interviewer assignments . |
| 20 | Preincubation was usually continued for a further 10 minutes , and then agonists were added to the suspensions and the change in cyclic AMP content recorded at intervals over the following 30 minutes . |
| 21 | Part-time workers who work only a very few hours do not benefit from many of the forms of employment protection introduced by legislation over the last decade or so , although those part-time workers who work at least half the usual hours are covered on some items . |
| 22 | QC facilitator Ann George said : ‘ The craftswomen — — have researched the styles of floral arrangements produced by Coalport over the years . |
| 23 | Needless to say , there have been certain noticeable effects on people raised on TV over the past 40 years . |
| 24 | Taking advantage of the ebb and flow of state politics and power , Border reivers swept in force over the Border in the company of English refugees who were now their grateful allies . |
| 25 | The list of foreign players attracted to Whaddon over the years has been endless . |
| 26 | The red and white helicopter rattled into sight over the top of the trees and hovered , a noisy gadfly , above the terraces . |
| 27 | My lack of culinary expertise has always been a source of great mirth to the men in my life and my well-attended failures embroidered into legends over the years , so I was prepared for the banter that accompanied dinner . |
| 28 | Heat the oil in a large pan , add the onion and cook covered for 4–5min over a moderate heat . |
| 29 | ‘ Too small for Envy , For Contempt too Great ’ runs the inscription carved in stone over the doorway of a Georgian house in Scotland . |
| 30 | We studied 123 adult patients ( 76 men and 47 women ; mean age 38.7 ( 18.7 ) years ) , age range 18–84 years ) with benign oesophageal strictures treated by dilatation over the six years 1986–92 . |