Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data are then being used to display trends in the variations between authorities over the period 1975/76 to 1983/84 . |
| 2 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents . |
| 3 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 4 | But it was n't all gloom for Cauthen over the week-end and a brilliant ride landed the Irish St Leger on Mashaallah . |
| 5 | These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it . |
| 6 | It may involve compromises , for instance over the frequency with which comprehensive large-scale mapping data is preserved . |
| 7 | TOUGH new sanctions are being planned by the UN to force Libya to surrender the two men wanted for trial over the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 8 | It has to do with short-term planning and public accounting systems , which mean that , although money can in theory be voted for projects over a number of years , in practice , it usually arrives in annual dribs and drabs . |
| 9 | They were aimed at the sky , poised ready to bounce signals off satellites over the rim of the earth . |
| 10 | The idea of an evening get-together for clients over a couple of drinks in the Branch is obviously a non-Banker concept . |
| 11 | Holidays can make a big hole in your savings so we offer a 5% discount for clients over the age of 60 on the date of departure . |
| 12 | Most funding agencies are , understandably , unwilling to take on a commitment to pay for research over a period of perhaps twenty years or more . |
| 13 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 14 | Audrey Hamilton , 35 , of Barnett Crescent , Kirkcaldy , and John Watson , of Simpson Court , Crail , each sued Fife Health Board for £20,000 over the death of their son , David , in 1976 . |
| 15 | Audrey Hamilton , 35 , of Barnett Crescent , Kirkcaldy , and John Watson , of Simpson Court , Crail , each sued Fife Health Board for £20,000 over the death of their son , David , in 1976 . |
| 16 | The elections had been called 15 months early after a group of five Green legislators — who had kept the minority government of Michael Field in office since June 1989 [ see p. 37877 ] — withdrew its support after disagreements over the issue of logging [ for May 1989 elections see p. 36658 ] . |
| 17 | Richard was in ‘ unbearable pain ’ after canoeing over the 50ft Sgwd-yr-Eira single-drop fall in South Wales and hitting the water at about 80mph . |
| 18 | POLICE have had to keep rival groups of Welsh cockle pickers apart after fist-fights over the right to farm the seafood delicacy . |
| 19 | We would begin to thread our way up the railway 's magical valley with sonorous rumbling as we negotiated bridge after bridge over the River Onny . |
| 20 | At the end of 1990 , after controversy over the census , the Census Bureau claimed that the total population of the USA was 249,632,692 — an increase of more than 23,000,000 ( 10.2 per cent ) over the 1980 figure of 226,545,805 . |
| 21 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 22 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 23 | Political conflicts normally took the form of struggles between parties or individuals for influence over the ruler , struggles in which the victor secured the all-important privilege of easy access to him and in which the vanquished were dismissed , disgraced or exiled . |
| 24 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 25 | The Foreign Ministers signed a document covering the withdrawal of Russian forces from Poland by Nov. 15 , and an agreement binding each side to make no claims for compensation over the stationing of Soviet troops in Poland . |
| 26 | Officers at Darlington Borough Council say the gloves are off in the battle for compensation over the town 's £12m Dolphin Centre sports complex . |
| 27 | There 's been a rise in the number of arrests for drink-driving over the holiday period . |
| 28 | There 's been a rise in the number of arrests for drink-driving over the holiday period . |
| 29 | The more resourceful tend to escape charges through influence over the police , to escape custodial remand through bail , and to escape conviction through employing good lawyers . |
| 30 | Krase , who was sacked by the Defence Ministry in 1984 for incompetence over the affair and died in 1988 , had prepared the MAD reports which led the then Defence Minister Manfred Wörner to dismiss Kiessling . |