Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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1 | Travel agents say they 've sold out of foreign holidays as thousands head for the sun over the Easter Bank holiday . |
2 | After the ‘ O Group ’ I 'm in the picture for the tasking over the next twenty-four hours . |
3 | The plan provides for the construction over the next three years of municipal effluent treatment plants in all towns along the river with a population of over 20,000 , the beginning of construction of such plants for cities of more than 50,000 , and the elimination of industrial sources of pollution . |
4 | On Nov. 14 Amato submitted to parliament an ambitious programme of privatization to raise L 27,000,000 million for the Treasury over the next three years , leaving the state with only " significant " minority holdings in many sectors . |
5 | More important for the present discussion , however , was the spatial variability in both support for the strike over the full period and the rate of the drift back to work . |
6 | Mr Tabiner , 40 , sees the unitary issue as one of the major issues for the council over the next few years . |
7 | Brian Roycroft , President of the Association of Directors of Social Services in 1988 , in answer to the question ‘ What is the incidence of child abuse and child sexual abuse ? ’ in his evidence to the Cleveland Inquiry , reported that : He went on to say , however , that his association undertook a survey in July 1987 of 100 local authorities and found an increase in child abuse registrations of 22 per cent for the country over the previous year , with the most significant increases in child sexual abuse . |
8 | Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS . |
9 | His average speed of 157.62 kph ( 97.96 mph ) was to remain an all-time record for the race over the full course . |
10 | Addressing an emergency parliamentary debate in Kiev , President Leonid Kravchuk declared : ‘ Only one state is responsible for the conflict over the Black Sea Fleet ; and it is called Russia . ’ |
11 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
12 | The longest cycle starts with the market analysis aimed at defining customer needs , and ends with the manufacture of a product to meet those needs in a manner calculated to make a profit for the company over the life of the product . |
13 | He stood , at least , for honesty in sexual dealings : hence his preference for the prostitute over the grisette . |
14 | It stands on a terrace the top step of which bears an inscription recording a dedication for the victory over the Persians at Marathon in 490 . |
15 | I shall want a met forecast for the weather over the whole of Western Europe . |
16 | The women centre has served a vital need for the community over the last six or seven years , and if it closes down all that work is basically gone and all the support that we 've build up has gone , because basically there 'll be nowhere that women can go to socialise and to find out what 's going on in Oxford . |
17 | She then moved to the Paragon , which she remembers once again for the view over the city and the estuary and for its huge Georgian bathroom which had a balcony . |
18 | Third there was some inconsistency ; here the argument curiously was that though there were powers for the control over the demolition of certain buildings there was no overall system . |
19 | It is fascinating to see how theory and experiment have vied for the lead over the past 30 years , with first one then the other leading the way . |
20 | Although Sacheverell was found guilty , the decision by the House of Lords on 21 March to impose the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching was widely seen as a moral victory for the doctor over the Whigs , and the news was greeted with ( often violent ) celebrations throughout the country . |
21 | The problem is that the string jumps out of its nut slot under heavy strumming , because the post on the machinehead is too high to provide a break angle for the string over the nut . |
22 | A first tranche of $2,500 million was for the refinancing over the next seven years of Italian state guaranteed credits due between January 1990 and January 1991 . |
23 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
24 | It would mean someone put the wrong tags on the ankles , possibly during the panic over the fire alarm . ’ |
25 | During the war over the Falkland Islands ( Islas Malvinas in Spanish and Ynysoedd Malfin in Welsh ) we too had a ‘ kith and kin ’ situation : rather different and more poignant than the more well-known situation between the English-speakers of London and those of Buenos Aires and Port Stanley . |
26 | As the inscription over the sanctuary arch told the worshipper in St Martin 's church at Tours , ‘ How awesome is this place ! |
27 | Symptom scores were calculated from the questionnaires as the increase over the baseline score for autonomic symptoms ( sweating , heart pounding , warmness , anxiety , tingling , and trembling ) , neuroglycopenic symptoms ( inability to concentrate , confusion , drowsiness , tiredness , dizziness , weakness , blurred vision , and irritability ) , and total symptoms ( autonomic plus neuroglycopenic score ) . |
28 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S under-fire coach John Williams refused to give in to pressure as the row over the Springboks ’ rugby tour of France deepened last night . |
29 | As the spend over the three years will be more than that — last year 's spend was £17 million and I expect this year 's to be £25 million , making a total of £42 million — I suppose that I could give my hon. Friend the assurance that he seeks , but even if our figures were so way out that I could be caught on that commitment , when I consider the matter next May — assuming that the burden still falls to me to do so — I would have to make the same calculation as I made this year . |
30 | As the hullabaloo over the Queen and the conference continues . |