Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] over the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Japan eventually agreed to spend ¥455 trillion ( $3.4 billion ) on its infrastructure over the coming decade ( see box , previous page ) . |
| 32 | On 5 May Eisenhower chose to respond to the ensuing crisis by asserting the right of the United States to fly its planes over the Soviet Union if security considerations demanded such a course of action . |
| 33 | The bag came down with a thud and spilt its contents over the bare oak planks . |
| 34 | Stepping forward , Curtis tipped the can and began to pour its contents over the wounded killer 's clothing and into his lap . |
| 35 | With the power of her eyes alone she had compelled a glass of water to tip and spill its contents over the horrible Headmistress , and anybody who could do that could do anything . |
| 36 | It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch . |
| 37 | However , forums such as ComputerWorld have seen a small firestorm of user complaints in their pages over the proposed return to an Ultrix migration path . |
| 38 | John and Josephine McCool explained : ‘ While we wish her well for the future , we can not condone her behaviour over the last number of years when she has associated with loyalist prisoners . |
| 39 | Furthermore a difficult transition can prejudice the changers against the new method so that they never appreciate its superiority over the old method . |
| 40 | Homoeopathy again proved its superiority over the orthodox methods of treatment during the great cholera epidemic which raged across Europe in 1831 . |
| 41 | a Perfect clue : Vandals who attacked a bus station left police the perfect clue they daubed their names over the freshly-painted terminus in Seaton Carew . |
| 42 | Perhaps it is this very ‘ emptiness ’ which appeals to many clients , for they can strip their advertisements over the aquamarine seas , or over the azure of skies , so that our subliminal minds will equate the goods they offer with the freshness of unspoiled paradise . |
| 43 | Nor could those people know that after the combat generals had moved further East into Russia that their authority over the civilian population would fall to the hands of Erich Koch , drafted to Kiev to head the Reichskommissariat . |
| 44 | EC foreign ministers , meeting today , have already drawn up their battle-lines over the much-vexed topic of safeguarding European culture on television . |
| 45 | The Christian World noted in 1882 , ‘ The great wave of Catholic sentiment which has been sweeping over the Established Church … has sensibly cast its spray over the Nonconformist bodies of the country ’ . |
| 46 | By setting up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ( CVR ) in April 1990 to investigate human rights abuses under the previous military regime [ see p. 37528 ] , the new government of President Aylwin attempted to establish its authority over the armed forces and , in particular , the C.-in-C. of the army and former President , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte . |
| 47 | Danish kings emerge from a period of obscurity in the middle of the tenth century , when a dynasty based on Jelling in Jutland , and represented by Gorm the Old and his son Harald Bluetooth , seems to have extended its authority over the whole country , which then included the province of Skåne in modern Sweden . |
| 48 | French sovereignty , it was suggested , had been recognized over Indo-China ; but the paper maintained that this did not imply any commitment on the part of the US to assist France to exert its authority over the Indo-Chinese people . |
| 49 | As delegates continued their debate over the new manifesto and statutes late into the night , the arithmetic in the hall began to show a slight drop in the reformist support , while numbers of the popular democracy platform doubled to more than 200 . |
| 50 | Those who did well out of coffee growing started employing labourers and consolidated their control over the best land . |
| 51 | The French retained fishing rights and rights to use the western shore as a base which turned out to be a source of dispute for almost two centuries , but the British were clearly establishing their control over the whole Atlantic seacoast . |
| 52 | The French skirmishers cheered their victory over the panicked gun teams , then turned their muskets on the nearest Belgian battalions . |
| 53 | But she could well match her rivals over the 50-metre sprints at the meet , which this year will also incorporate the Super Final of the Uncle Ben 's Rice British Grand Prix series.GOLF : A statue of Harry Vardon which , as reported in The Daily Telegraph , was stolen from the South Herts golf club in north London last month , has been located in the Hendon area . |
| 54 | The four European factories must show their efficiency over the next year , especially by selling their products to clients outside of IBM , Winkelmann said . |
| 55 | Mrs Mantini ran her finger over the dustless surface of a Victorian overmantel . |
| 56 | Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy . |
| 57 | As each of these features increased in complexity — more propositions , more unpredictability , more words in the sentence — so the faster readers increased their superiority over the slower readers . |
| 58 | This gave the organisers a chance to check their arrangements for crowd control , while Richie and Patrick were able to test their radios over the full extent of the course . |
| 59 | On May 21 the US State Department issued a statement indicating its apprehension over the rising number of Palestinians being killed in the occupied territories and calling on the Israeli government to exercise restraint . |
| 60 | We need to ratify it to make progress towards European Union if the Community is to remain an anchor of stability and prosperity in a rapidly changing continent , building on its success over the last quarter of a century . |