Example sentences of "the [noun pl] over [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that Britain and other leading European powers are at odds with the Germans over crucial aspects of the European Commission code on community take-overs . |
| 2 | With a change in the rules over foreign ownership of domestic airlines now likely ( see main story ) , there may soon be more bidders . |
| 3 | He was lying on the large double bed with the first of the ice-packs over one side of his face . |
| 4 | First , the existence of the plateaux over appreciable ranges of Vg ( Figure 2 ) does not match preconceived ideas for quantised motion . |
| 5 | According to Tom Ehman , executive director of the America 's Cup Organising Committee ( ACOC ) , the problems over Soviet access to San Diego are virtually over . |
| 6 | The data in the appendix add details of the chronology of policy development in each of our three countries and the changes over recent years in trade and investment flows , sectoral composition of the economy and demographic indicators . |
| 7 | It is the peculiar human ability to re-organize and re-describe and re-evaluate from novel points of view that makes for the superiority of the consultants over any set of bibliographical instruments , as well as the human ability to recognize a question as misconceived or stupid . |
| 8 | Even assaults on the Unionists over alleged cases of discrimination could rebound . |
| 9 | Mastery of the skies over large parts of Germany had already passed to the allies in 1942 , and heavy raids , chiefly by the Royal Air Force , had been carried out on cities mainly in northern and north-western Germany ( Hamburg , Lübeck , Rostock , Cologne , Essen , Bremen , and others ) . |
| 10 | Coupled with a series of similar findings in different paradigms , it is taken to mean that hearing people , when processing potentially verbal material , use a code based on speech to represent and retain the items over short periods of time . |
| 11 | However , the controls over local management in this respect were tightened up from the mid-1950s onwards . |
| 12 | In the debates over proposed changes to the criminal law , politicians continued to argue that to speak about sex was to corrupt . |
| 13 | At the same time his pathological detestation of ‘ popery ’ guaranteed that he would vote with the Whigs over great questions of policy , such as the Hanoverian succession and the war with France . |
| 14 | His father quarrelled with the Colonels over some detail of graft . |