Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a very old colleague points out : ‘ It 's better than going to war over it . ’ |
| 2 | What is or can be as superlatively silly or ruinous to the nerves as that silly girl , snivelling and laughing by turns over a ‘ love story ’ ? |
| 3 | The martins were now coming and going in numbers over the water . |
| 4 | In the first twelve months marital conflict present before the divorce often increases , and parents become inconsistent , less affectionate , and lacking in control over their children . |
| 5 | Their U16 and U18 teams , supplemented with players from Cambridge , Braintree and Bury , each enjoyed seven and six match tours respectively to Sweden under coach Kevin Dunne and culminating in victories over Sweden at U16 ( 19–3 ) and U18 ( 16–3 ) levels . |
| 6 | Sad Joanna told detectives she dreaded the thought of eating and drinking at parties over the holiday period . |
| 7 | A warden has been appointed , Chris Martin , who lives in Orford , and he will be helping to deter trespassers and liaising with police over the detection of offences . |
| 8 | And for weeks he had been agonising and clashing with colleagues over Europe . |
| 9 | While not giving details of the pricing , he said that the price-performance curve on the 80486 is the basis for pricing of the Pentium and that he expected the sort of dynamic that applied to the 80486 to apply to the Pentium as well — the 80486 being introduced at $900 to $1,000 and falling to $200 over a period of four years — at a rate of 30% per year . |
| 10 | ‘ It used to , but working with Dave over that period of time means we 've mostly solved the problems . |
| 11 | When looking at changes over time ( or making comparisons between areas ) one way of overcoming differences in overall population structure is via the calculation of age and sex specific mortality rates . |