Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | No protection exists for men over 65 or women over 60 or for persons over normal retiring age in a particular employment whether that age is more or less than the ages given above . |
| 2 | Lakes may take in water from many miles away that has percolated through the soil or through aquifers over decades . |
| 3 | Glass Reinforced Plastic otherwise known as GRP , or Glass Fibre , is available in solid rod , or as tubes over a broad range of sizes . |
| 4 | In normal or difficult market conditions , the agent is probably able to serve his client well by such introductions and contacts , particularly where the site will be sold by private treaty at a fixed price or by offers over a minimum sale figure . |
| 5 | Above this level , however , there is an Earnings Rule , which means that for earnings over a certain amount , a percentage will be deducted until you wo n't receive any pension at all . |
| 6 | The ending of the monopoly of solicitors over house sales conveyancing and of opticians over the sale of spectacles has already been noted . |
| 7 | Government decisions , national and international , negotiations with producers over prices and with unions over wages , etc. , depend increasingly on such measures . |
| 8 | This finding argues for alternative programmes and measures for application among countries and within countries over time . |
| 9 | Weick ( 1985 ) says that , because people persist in simplifying the world , they do not see the differentiations between organizations and within organizations over time . |
| 10 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
| 11 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 12 | Glass reckons he saw 100 people individually and in groups over a four or five month period . |
| 13 | The effects of this can be seen both in the current major reviews of BBC funding and in discussions over the future of Channel Four . |
| 14 | The price of most commodities is determined by international economic developments and in markets over which most LDCs have no control . |
| 15 | We have also looked at some of the processes which have contributed to these shifts and at debates over their explanation . |
| 16 | From the age of about four onwards , and at intervals over the years , Shanti would ask , ‘ Did n't my mother love me ? ’ |
| 17 | Attempts to co-operate with Hungary were clouded by the failure to agree on the future of the Danube hydro-electric system [ see p. 38161 ] , and by problems over the treatment of national minorities on their respective territories . |
| 18 | From this point onwards historians have tended to lose interest in the debates over classification , assuming that they were increasingly concerned not with the principle of how to determine relationships , but with disagreements over practical applications of the technique . |
| 19 | Measuring about 20 cm ( 8 in ) across , but with tentacles over 1 m ( 3¼ ft ) long , it is translucent light blue and difficult to see . |
| 20 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
| 21 | However , while preparing for its first congress , a split occurred because of disagreements over private ownership of the means of production and land . |
| 22 | The UK Ministry of Defence ( MOD ) announced on Sept. 19 , 1989 , that , because of disagreements over specifications and delays in expected delivery dates , the UK was withdrawing from the NATO Frigate Replacement for the 1990s ( NFR90 ) project . |
| 23 | The delay was partly because of disagreements over the allocation of contracts for the construction of 36,000 apartments for returning soldiers at a cost to Germany of DM7,800 million . |
| 24 | John may have spoken on the marriage bill on 22 April , however ; he would have been especially interested , because of difficulties over his intended marriage to his cousin , Eleanor Hanham , with whom he eloped in 1629 . |
| 25 | The meeting started 12 days late , apparently because of difficulties over housing delegates in the capital . |
| 26 | The Liberal Democratic Congress and the Confederation for an Independent Poland had pulled out of talks with Olszewski on the formation of a government because of differences over economic policy . |
| 27 | On March 26 the US State Department confirmed that it had in July 1991 denied a visa to Narong because of suspicions over his role in heroin trading . |
| 28 | District authorities in Devon banned the jump in the county because of fears over the type of crane to be used , said Mr Collier , who has been blind for 22 years . |
| 29 | District authorities in Devon banned the jump in the county because of fears over the type of crane to be used , said Mr Collier , who has been blind for 22 years . |
| 30 | The plenum had been delayed for several months , allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities . |