Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During March there were violent protests in a number of areas throughout England over the introduction of the community charge or poll tax , which was to take effect from the beginning of the following month in both England and Wales under the terms of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 [ see p. 36501 ] . |
| 2 | The exhibition also looks at the making and selling of instruments on Merseyside over the past 200 years . |
| 3 | Analysts say Mr Patten has been fighting a war of nerves with China over the proposals , with neither wanting to go into any negotiations from a position of weakness . |
| 4 | 1979 ) to measure the time delay for reflections from Mars over a period of 14 months . |
| 5 | That is the litany which has been heard from solicitors throughout Scotland over the past months — from the spacious offices of the big city firms to the modest surroundings of rural practices . |
| 6 | BRITISH hopes of returning to normalcy in negotiations with China over the future of Hong Kong appeared to have been thwarted yesterday as the 14th round of Sino-British talks ended with only limited signs of progress . |
| 7 | My aims were to record the time distribution of night visits and to show the trend in claims in Berkshire over the past 10 years after adjusting for the change in claimable hours . |
| 8 | I know how long he has been concerned about the aggravated taking of vehicles and the mayhem caused by young men in parts of Nottinghamshire over the past couple of years . |
| 9 | While a recent survey in England showed that many youngsters found books ‘ boring ’ compared with space-age games , films and TV programmes , there has been no decrease in public-library borrowing by children in Belfast over the last five years . |