Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money paid by taxpayers over and above government expenditure merely returns to taxpayers again ( albeit differently distributed ) . |
| 2 | He pointed to Unix International as a forum for limiting the damage caused by arguments over technology , and said that the UI RoadMap of future Unix developments would be broadened to encompass technology from other member companies aside from USL itself : ‘ It 'll help keep them honest ’ . |
| 3 | The existence of internal labour markets is sometimes used to explain labour ‘ hoarding ’ ( the practice of employing more labour than is actually required ) because firms do not wish to break the link between workers and the firm , thereby losing the skills acquired by workers over the years ; and is also put forward as a cause of a reduction in the overall level of competition in the aggregate labour market and , therefore , a possible reason for the inflexibility of wage rates , particularly in the downward direction . |
| 4 | His early and unexpected death was a cruel setback which left the College floundering in indecision over the choice of a suitable successor . |
| 5 | We have already discussed the leverage deriving from control over expertise . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The extended family of the Schlesingers kept in touch over the years . |
| 8 | The words seemed to trip over each other in her enthusiasm . |
| 9 | 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 , |
| 10 | The main objectives of the research are to estimate the total compliance costs of personal income tax and capital gains tax in the UK , ie the costs incurred by taxpayers over and above their tax liability . |
| 11 | The local promoter had evidently not managed to summon the courage to quibble with Jourgensen over the 89 decibel limit on the main stage . |
| 12 | You know , moaning about these blokes like the postman going on strike over a seven per cent rise . |
| 13 | This is Throwing Muses ' no fannying-about ROCK album , the band hunched like gargoyles over their instruments , knocking 50 varieties of shit out of them . |
| 14 | There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ . |
| 15 | There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ If the Europeans fight like hell over new investment and where European headquarters should be , maybe we should consider running everything from here in Detroit , the way it used to be . |
| 18 | His fingers on the strings hovered like butterflies over a flowerbed on a day of hot summer . |
| 19 | ( In voluntary aided schools the governors have many of the rights enjoyed by LEAs over reinstatement of pupils in other schools . ) |
| 20 | Theodossin also implies a third element here , that the scheme began and developed with a wide range of institutional consent precisely because of features of its initial design ( he points , for example , to the choice of a term-long unit and the control retained by staff over field changes , if not module changes , by students ) . |
| 21 | The month began with speculation over the choice of Clinton 's running-mate for the vice-presidency . |
| 22 | The following examples , adapted from Firbas ( 1986 : 58 ) illustrate the priority given to context over linear arrangement . |
| 23 | The theory depends on agreement over the nature of technical ‘ progress ’ at any given time . |
| 24 | As the sky faded to orange over the sea of felltops , it became clear that not only was Rib and Slab out of the question but we would be struggling to get back to Wasdale before nightfall . |
| 25 | ‘ Too small for Envy , For Contempt too Great ’ runs the inscription carved in stone over the doorway of a Georgian house in Scotland . |
| 26 | As the plane hangs in darkness over a net of lights far below , Kate looks in amazement at her new sandals and the label on her hand luggage . |
| 27 | I have written before about the controversy raised in Scotland over the National Trust for Scotland 's mountain properties and breaking the ‘ rules ’ set by its mountaineering benefactor Percy Unna , who wanted the hills kept natural . |
| 28 | We had shrimps for tea , watercress , celery stacked in a glass jug , fishpaste sandwiches , flan made from the blackberries hanging in thickets over the back garden fence from the wild common beyond . |
| 29 | The Scottish experience shows the enormous increase in the amounts owed by clients over the three years of the study . |
| 30 | Their confidence in the system derives from consultation over proposed innovations , from training and from the degree of control over their work which has been consciously left with them . |