Example sentences of "[verb] by the [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler 's proclamation on 24 February 1943 was , in fact , hardly noticed at all by the population , while reactions to the low-key speech on 21 March 1943 were dominated by the speculation over the astonishingly low figures for German war casualties which Hitler had given . |
| 2 | ‘ Wait , ’ commanded Coy , then Adam heard him speak to someone else in the room , his voice muffled by the hand over the receiver . |
| 3 | A colourful selection of map ephemera in the form of Christmas cards , gifted to or collected by the Library over the past 15 years , was used as the cover for the December 1990 issue of the international journal The Map Collector . |
| 4 | Estimates of the amount of money saved by the taxpayer over the five-year period vary widely . |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder what the Reverend Henry Solly would have said if he had seen the tremendous progress made by the Union over the past few years . ’ |
| 6 | After 1895 , as shown by the dispute over the Liaodong peninsula , foreign interests in the area became a bone of contention between Russia and Japan . |
| 7 | In each case there can be no doubt that the advantages offered by the trust over the civil-law method were significant : performance in specie was a real possibility in each case ; that this was so depended entirely on the fact that trusts were subject to a different procedural order . |
| 8 | Always in the leading group , McMahon pushed to the front before the last where he was challenged by the favourite Over the Edge , but keeping his mount perfectly balanced and running as straight as a gun barrel , McMahon found something left in the ‘ Tank ’ and went on to score a snug success . |
| 9 | C = the degree of control exercised by the superior over the subordinate ; |
| 10 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |
| 11 | The Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) granted a US$425,000,000 loan package on Sept. 18 , primarily aimed to assist the sweeping external trade reforms decreed by the government over the previous year . |
| 12 | Work began last July to repair the weather vane and to replace the original plaster , joinery and copperwork , all of which had been damaged by the weather over the years . |
| 13 | Some insight into the Whig perspective is provided by the controversy over the Kentish petition towards the end of William 's reign . |
| 14 | And , the Sun newspaper has said it intends to fight any High Court action brought by the Queen over the advanced publication of her Christmas broadcast . |
| 15 | BELOW : The walled kitchen garden at Fenton House in Hampstead has been restored by the Trust over the last ten years ( National Trust Photographic Library/Ian Shaw ) |
| 16 | £221 million in tax could be easily saved by the simple use of the tax-efficient financial products which have been introduced by the Government over the last ten years ; |
| 17 | In 1988 it was calculated that over £16 billion had been spent by the Authority over the previous 30 years , about half provided by the Department of Energy or its predecessors . |
| 18 | Here , the degree of control exerted by the fieldworker over the speech-exchange is the guiding principle , and the fieldworker 's aim is to get away from interview style ( that is , to lose control ) as soon as possible . |
| 19 | Many fellow students who fell by the wayside over the years did so through domestic pressure , added the squadron leader , who attributed his success to the invaluable support of his wife , Fay , a midwife at the Friarage Hospital , Northallerton . |
| 20 | The redundancies come on top of five hundred already announced by the firm over the past eighteen months , mostly as a result of cutbacks in defence spending . |
| 21 | Say FoE transport campaigner Roger Higman , ‘ Dozens more schemes could be hit by the argument over the application of the date alone . ’ |
| 22 | Thus our customers should be advised of the current level of facilities granted and that soon the maximum facilities to be granted to the company will be £135,000 and we will be looking to the guarantee for this sum which in turn is supported by the charge over the above property . |
| 23 | This process is aided and abetted by the trend over the past twenty years to encourage the active participation of fathers in the process of childbirth itself . |
| 24 | Around 200 atmospheric and underground nuclear tests had been conducted by the French over the last three decades at its test sites on Fangataufa and Mururoa atolls , in the colonial territory of French Polynesia . |
| 25 | The debate aimed at winning more control over policy , staff and top appointments has been fuelled by the row over the party 's policy on water privatisation and the question-mark over the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke . |
| 26 | The growth of disillusionment with the war and the resulting peace settlement , fuelled by the debate over the League , helped to discredit the Democrats . |
| 27 | To recognize the successes achieved by the group over the last two to three years . |
| 28 | This , coupled with numerous fragmenting experiences endured by the left over the last two decades , has made the prospect of any sort of political focus within the left in general , and in film and television studies in particular , both difficult and remote . |
| 29 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
| 30 | The other ‘ road ’ had been developed when in Avon Finance v Bridger [ 1985 ] 2 A11 ER 281 the court envisaged the extension of the protection previously given to wives to elderly parents , and in the present case Scott LJ saw no reason why the ‘ protection ’ should not extend to all cases where the relationship between the surety and debtor was one in which influence by the debtor over the surety and reliance by the surety on the debtor were natural and probable . |