Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | Inset Left : Hazlehurst Aqueduct carries the Leek branch of the Caldon Canal over the main line which goes to Froghall . |
| 32 | Would the hon. Lady have supported the resignation of the Home Secretary over the escapes from Brixton ? |
| 33 | She ladled a little of the court bouillon over the fat bits of mackerel . |
| 34 | In the interview , the Prime Minister was asked about the line that stressed the importance of the service sector over manufacturing . |
| 35 | I made it clear that our policy was to use that money to reduce the level of the council tax over that period of time . |
| 36 | Alright , if erm , if we now so this is going to be his sort of , his opportunity cost right , his wage rate in the rural sense is going to , to opportunity cost , and the sum of the opportunity cost over time right , is going to be the present , you know if we discount that by some er , if we turn it into a present , a present value , right , the present value of that sum there , right , will determine life times income in agriculture . |
| 37 | As far as the company is concerned , the excess of the purchase price over the subscription price for the original shares ( including any premium paid on issue ) will be treated as a distribution . |
| 38 | Then there was the excitement of finding out about this strange miniature town with its open view of the North Sea over the mud flats . |
| 39 | Despite the efforts of Rowlinson and his undoubtedly substantial contribution to the growth of the UK business over the last few years , Korn/Ferry has not yet adapted to the British corporate scene quite as successfully as Egon Zehnder or fellow members of the Big Four . |
| 40 | Between 1911 and the 1980s the proportion of the UK population over the age of 65 had tripled from 5 per cent to 15 per cent . |
| 41 | Morgan , MacDonald and Hilgard ( 1974 ) , for instance , have related hypnosis to mediation by the right hemisphere and Cohen , Rosen and Goldstein ( 1976 ) claimed to show that sexual orgasm in humans is associated with increased amplitude of the wave form over the right but not the left hemisphere . |
| 42 | This enabled someone to establish the numerical co-ordinates of the movement of the cutting tool over the entire sequence of operations and to transfer this to code on punched tape which was then fed into the machine . |
| 43 | So what was the point of discussing any of the myriad amendments over the past six months if so many of them could be shrugged off as ‘ ineffective ’ ? |
| 44 | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation , a major lender to Bond but one which cut its exposure to about A$1billion earlier this year , said it would study the implications of the NAB action over the weekend . |
| 45 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 46 | He stopped in the middle of the swing bridge over the canal and watched a couple of local boys fishing from the bank . |
| 47 | Given the propensity of the Academy jury over the years to equate serious acting with stars ' willingness to make themselves unattractive , it is surprising that Dustin did not win hands down . |
| 48 | Rourke slung the broad strap of the wicker basket over one shoulder . |
| 49 | A suitable feature of the waveform can be selected for generation of the position signal over the required speed range ( Kuo and Cassat , 1977 ) . |
| 50 | In those days it was easy to offend : the establishment liked its Monarch of the Glentype pieces over its Adams fireplaces . |
| 51 | The domination of the cinema screen over the audience has also resulted in experiments with ‘ smell-o-vision ’ , but so far we have thankfully been spared Aldous Huxley 's vision of ‘ the feelies ’ . |
| 52 | The marketing of the share sale over the coming weeks is designed to attract the highest possible number of private investors . |
| 53 | We took about £150m out of the operating companies over a couple of years |
| 54 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
| 55 | In two careful analyses of the survey evidence over the past four months , the Washington Post and the American Political Report , an influential newsletter , have come to broadly similar conclusions . |
| 56 | So it goes on , with mentions of current ripples up to 10 feet and more in height , a gravel delta 200 square miles in area , the stripping off of the loess cover over an area of almost 2000 square miles and so on . |
| 57 | The expansion of the Royal Navy and the growth of the mercantile marine , however , intensified the alarm of the Navy Board over the shortage of timber . |
| 58 | It is doubtful whether such an explanation of naturally occurring polymorphism could be tested without long-term , detailed recording , not only of the variety of genetic changes occurring within clover populations , but at the same time of a detailed recording of the known hazards in the life of the clover plant over the seasons and the years . |
| 59 | One benefit of the Windows version over the DOS one is the ability to perform unattended scans . |
| 60 | Let there be no doubt , these young criminals are not in any way representative of the vast majority of the Afro-Caribbean community whose life has contributed to the life and culture of the West Midlands over many years and whose hopes and aspirations are at one with those of every other law-abiding citizen . |