Example sentences of "[noun] for [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seems after he decided to pull me off , he looked back and decided on different reasons for things over the years to stir up our relationship . ’ |
| 2 | The former brigadier Toby Low was continuing his evidence in his action for damages over accusations that he repatriated 70,000 Yugoslavs and Cossacks from Allied-occupied Austria in 1945 , knowing they faced almost certain death . |
| 3 | At his son 's home in Hayes , Middlesex , Mr Murphy , 52 , said he was contemplating action for damages over his treatment . |
| 4 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 5 | Two-term double modules are used mostly in humanities and social sciences and give longer periods of study for students over broader subject areas . |
| 6 | Education provides two major areas for arguments over access to information . |
| 7 | It is clear from data on occupations drawn from the decennial censuses that retirement for men over the age of 65 was increasing from 1881 , almost thirty years before the introduction of a state pension ; and modern evidence from the United States gives good grounds for believing that , in some circumstances at least , changes in retirement age over time represent a supply-side factor , with people choosing retirement before they become incapable of work . |
| 8 | A third set of dilemmas revolves around the question of how greater consumer choice can be reconciled with the need for controls over the total growth of services to prevent an expenditure explosion . |
| 9 | A key issue in relations with South Africa was the Namibian desire for negotiations over Walvis Bay , the South African enclave with important port facilities . |
| 10 | Jamie 's father is helping to organise a protest group , which may yet take Thames Water to court for damages over the cryptosporidia contamination . |
| 11 | The idea of an evening get-together for clients over a couple of drinks in the Branch is obviously a non-Banker concept . |
| 12 | The Model 10102 has 12 shielded twisted pair ports for local links and four fibre ports for links over up to 6,000 feet . |
| 13 | They may provide considerable scope for disputes over meaning . |
| 14 | Ekoku was reported to have been at Carrow Road last night for talks over a possible £700,000 transfer before the transfer deadline this afternoon . |
| 15 | The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) . |
| 16 | Likewise the excess rate for males over females , for town dwellers over country dwellers , for social class V over social class I , all of which coincide with smoking differences , can be explained by other means . |
| 17 | The company is due to meet MSF leaders next week for talks over job losses , but a union official said foremen at Dagenham and Southampton had been ‘ chomping at the bit ’ to take industrial action before then . |
| 18 | XYZ Foods today [ date ] launched a completely new slimming product called Brand A , which gives a calorie controlled food intake for slimmers over a four day period . |
| 19 | and they did have bungalows for Rhodesians over here in different parts of England |
| 20 | With about half the housing provided by associations and co-operatives for tenants over the age of 60 , its activities are rightly concentrated within central areas . |
| 21 | Overnight stayers at the Parkside pit camp get priority for drinks over those who have woken at 5am or earlier to register their protest before they carry on to work . |
| 22 | It could take up to four years before a full hearing in the European Court , but Liberty 's legal officer , John Wadham , suggested yesterday that the action might prompt the Government to include a mechanism for complaints over GCHQ in its forthcoming bill to put the Secret Intelligence Service , MI6 , on a statutory footing . |
| 23 | The changes were interpreted by foreign commentators as a victory for hardliners over moderate elements . |
| 24 | Holidays can make a big hole in your savings so we offer a 5% discount for clients over the age of 60 on the date of departure . |
| 25 | The extra cash help will come from the Bellwin scheme , under which the Government automatically picks up 85 per cent of the bill for disasters over and above initial spending by councils . |
| 26 | On the other hand , if a text shows a repeated preference for passives over actives , it is natural to consider this preference a feature of style . |
| 27 | Hotels are functional rather than luxurious , with tepid water and — crime of crimes for bruised and weary limbs — a preference for showers over baths . |
| 28 | He provides a polythetic perspective on social position , exhibiting the structuralist preference for relationships over entities , so that all social attributes are understood primarily in terms of their co-variant properties . |
| 29 | WordPerfect has responded angrily to Microsoft claims that a clear majority of users prefer Word for Windows over WordPerfect . |
| 30 | Australian Test umpire Peter McConnell is suing the Daily Telegraph Mirror for damages over an article by Sunil Gavaskar in which the former Indian batsman made comments in some of the umpiring decisions in the Sydney Test , in which McConnell and Steve Randell officiated . |