Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained : ‘ We are dealing direct with merchants over there and as far as we are aware they are very keen to import fish , such as small whiting , which they ca n't get from their own fishermen . |
| 2 | But if we begin from situations in which the community does not find it necessary to impose standards , we find , in the very simplest cases , full confidence and agreement in evaluating , untroubled by worries over differences of taste . |
| 3 | 286 users will have no chance to use it , and will have to be content with Windows over DOS if the GUI is where they want to be . |
| 4 | There is also the great puzzle , which is central to arguments over media power and accountability , about the direction of influence . |
| 5 | An important function of assessment is that it can help determine the extent to which a child 's language is subject to changes over time . |
| 6 | Untouched by shots over the sea , |
| 7 | Outside was very pleasant with views over open fields and a local park . |
| 8 | It was agreed that the union should be involved in discussions over redundancy policy . |
| 9 | What I w what I will say to my honourable , my right honourable friend is that er when I recently visited the United States I did find that the , on which our training and enterprise councils have been based , have provided a very valuable experience for us in learning the lessons that he had indicated of ensuring that the private sector is fully involved in decisions over training and I believe that the figure I gave to my honourable friend early today , combined with over two billion that my department spends on training , forms a very effective public private sector partnership . |
| 10 | Hurtado had been involved in disagreements over economic policy with Industry and Commerce Minister Guido Pennano , who criticized the government 's IMF-backed tight fiscal policy for deepening the recession , failing to cure hyperinflation , and making exports uncompetitive by overvaluing the inti . |
| 11 | Amitha : That 's because the Union was too traditional and only involved in negotiations over pay and working conditions . |
| 12 | This is expected to be particularly revealing as Mr Camber , a curator at the British Museum before he went to work for Sotheby 's , heard about the hoard from an ex-colleague and became involved in negotiations over it in Switzerland some time before Lord Northampton , presenting himself as the single owner of the treasure , first approached Sotheby 's in 1988 with a view to selling . |
| 13 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 14 | Compensation Fund should be responsible for claims over a fidelity bond ‘ excess ’ of around 25,000 ( for sole principals ) plus 100,000 per partner in firms , up to a limit of 100,000 , with a cap on the fund up to 1 million , and a no claims bonus ; |
| 15 | This may apply to a particular period or it may be concerned with changes over a long period of time . |
| 16 | It is , of course , celebrated for the magnificent star-clouds which indicate the direction of the centre of the Galaxy , and sweeping with binoculars over the whole region is very rewarding . |
| 17 | Police have been getting tough with drivers over the new tyre safety legislation which came into force yesterday . |
| 18 | This led commentators to predict a widening of the rift between Klaus and Havel already evident in differences over the pace of market economic reforms , and even a split in Civic Forum . |
| 19 | And I noticed that the skin was hanging loose in folds over the shoulder and behind it , as if it had fit a rounder form yesterday , before the rigours of birth . |
| 20 | Diplomatic relations between the two nations were resumed in 1955 , but a peace treaty has yet to be signed , largely due to disagreements over possession of certain of the Kurile Islands taken by the Soviet Union at the end of the war . |
| 21 | However , Reichel himself claimed that he did not know the true reason for his dismissal , saying that he thought it might be due to disagreements over scientific policy . |
| 22 | The year 1988 was another difficult one for OPEC , not only due to problems over quotas but also because of signs of a possible sequel to 1986 . |
| 23 | The landmark was closed more than ten years ago due to worries over its safety . |
| 24 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 25 | An increased share of temporary workers does , however , become apparent for women over the age of 60 and men over the age of 65 . |
| 26 | They write as if totally familiar with raps over the knuckles and old-fashioned dictation . |
| 27 | Of this total , SDR33,600,000 ( about US$45 million ) were available in instalments over the next 12 months under a standby arrangement . |
| 28 | The physical difficulty of working with oceanic animals has limited cetacean study in the past , and much of the information available on whales over the last few centuries has , ironically , come from the whaling industry . |
| 29 | Since females in these species become available to males over a period of weeks or months , the possibility exists for some males to mate with several females during the course of a breeding season . |
| 30 | The government is making £40 million available to councils over the next three years for the funding of recycling schemes . |