Example sentences of "over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On agriculture the New Zealand side expressed concerns over protectionist barriers affecting its major exports , and over the current impasse in the GATT talks [ see also p. 38027 ] . |
| 2 | The word spiritual is over used , but for Beth it 's the right adjective . |
| 3 | In less than half an hour they were all airborne and Rob was flying on his seventeenth raid over occupied Europe . |
| 4 | Believed to have crashed in October 1942 after a dogfight with a Luftwaffe fighter over occupied Normandy , the pilot is thought to have been a Fleet Air Arm Lieutenant . |
| 5 | The following day , March 8 , actions took place all over Occupied Palestine . |
| 6 | The Yi dynasty presided over Korean affairs from 1392 to 1910 but the dynasty was in decline from the seventeenth century onwards ; and Yi ascendancy was distinguished by a combination of exploitation , corruption and brutality in which endemic factionalism predominated . |
| 7 | An attempt to contest Japan 's control over Korean foreign policy at the Hague peace Conference in 1907 fell on deaf ears ; whether Korea was , or was not , independent meant little to most of the nations of the West . |
| 8 | Too many smooth-talking foreigners , it was said , were able to exercise an hypnotic and manipulative influence over callow Americans . |
| 9 | More majestic , in central North Island , was a flight over volcanic territory . |
| 10 | The following evening , after a slogging nine-hour march over volcanic hills that threw up waves of heat , making me irritable and all of us tired and thirsty , we toiled up yet another rise and suddenly saw Lake Hertale below us . |
| 11 | Page 29 Compromise on mergers : The junior industry minister , John Redwood , is to propose a way out of the row over European mergers policy when he meets EC ministers in Luxembourg today . |
| 12 | In an attempt to overcome a two-year-old impasse over European Commission proposals for an alignment of national rates of Value Added Tax ( VAT ) and Excise rates by 1993 , the ministers agreed to abandon key provisions for revising VAT collection arrangements . |
| 13 | By mid-1982 , an acceptable compromise had been reached over European affairs , including the budget and agricultural policy . |
| 14 | WHATEVER the hopes of the Conservative party 's managers , the divisions over European policy are not going to go away . |
| 15 | And Deloitte says it is unlikely that British companies will be favoured over European rivals in the franchise round which will be open to public scrutiny . |
| 16 | For Mrs Thatcher , at loggerheads with many of her own party over European issues , this summit was crucial , as it set the tone for debates leading up to 1992 — not only for European unification but for the next British election in which Europe will be a deciding factor . |
| 17 | Some Labour MEPs and independent socialists have long argued this is the way to prevent a stranglehold over European integration being exercised by national governments . |
| 18 | Ironically Tory MEPs may secure a better working relationship with their Westminster cousins than the Labour party , thanks in part to the respect the Tory MEPs have won for refusing to buckle under Thatcherite pressure over European union . |
| 19 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 20 | Disarray within the Conservative Party and the government , particularly over European policy , provoked the resignation on Nov. 1 of Deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe . |
| 21 | Doubts over European Hermes manned shuttle programme |
| 22 | The move follows news that the road could be at risk because of a wrangle over European cash grants , with the possibility of more than £4.5m to Durham County Council being blocked . |
| 23 | Still talking : Fresh talks to try to settle the row over European farm subsidies took place in Chicago between EC farm commissioner Ray McSharry and US agriculture secretary Edward Madigan . |
| 24 | with hocked gems financing him/ our hero bravely defied all scornful laughter/ that tried to prevent his scheme/ your eyes deceive/ he had said/ an egg/ not a table/ correctly typifies this unexplored planet/ now three sturdy sisters sought proof/ forging along sometimes through calm vastness/ yet more often over turbulent peaks and valleys/ days became weeks/ as many doubters spread fearful rumours about the edge/ at last/ from nowhere/ welcome winged creatures appeared/ signifying momentous success |
| 25 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 26 | The term can be approximately twelve to thirteen weeks long , and advanced classes will in all probability do a production over that time which will be mounted and produced in the Institute 's own theatre . |
| 27 | But anything over that size should be divided into two equal slabs with a dividing board between . |
| 28 | He spent a whole year over that clever toy . |
| 29 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 30 | When Lord Addison was made Minister of Health he concentrated entirely on methods of financing council housing , and under the ill-conceived Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919 he guaranteed local authorities all losses over that covered by a penny rate . |