Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 2 | Finance director Keith Todd announced that ICL has gained one point of market share in the UK , in a declining overall market — stealing back a little of the market share that IBM UK has won from ICL over the past 20 years . |
| 3 | Thousands of pensioners have protested in London over the government 's plans for V A T on domestic fuel . |
| 4 | Sir Hugh , in his first major interview for 12 months , said the 15 bombs the IRA has detonated in London over the past few weeks were comparatively minor . |
| 5 | The list of foreign players attracted to Whaddon over the years has been endless . |
| 6 | This was the first of many palatial properties occupied by Franco over the next forty years — a tendency which is difficult to reconcile with his hagiographers ' insistence that he was a man of austere tastes and habits . |
| 7 | Iraqi government sources claimed on July 16 that 1,200 Arab citizens had been deported from Kuwait over the previous 24 hours [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ; 38309 ] . |
| 8 | ‘ The war that has raged in Bosnia-Herzegovina over the past year has taken a staggering toll : thousands have been killed or imprisoned , thousands more are at risk due to hunger and exposure , and over two million people have been forced from their homes , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He took the principal part in the synthesis and interpretation of all the gravity observations made in India over the period 1908–13 and made an excellent attempt to interpret these data in the light of evidence recently reported by the American geodesist , J. F. Hayford , as a result of similar surveys in the United States . |
| 10 | Because of treaty concessions imposed on Egypt over the centuries , the nationals of certain foreign powers had legal privileges . |
| 11 | Negotiations have opened with Southampton over the permanent transfer of Jon Gittens to Ayresome Park . |
| 12 | The Meat and Livestock Commission has paid £16,000 to put the club logo on all cuts sold in Italy over the next two years . |
| 13 | Three and a half million mountain bikes have been sold in Britain over the past four years . |
| 14 | The exhibition , open until the end of the month , comprises a dozen knotted constructions and a series of ‘ combustions ’ produced by Jaccard over the past three years . |
| 15 | QC facilitator Ann George said : ‘ The craftswomen — — have researched the styles of floral arrangements produced by Coalport over the years . |
| 16 | I have written before about the controversy raised in Scotland over the National Trust for Scotland 's mountain properties and breaking the ‘ rules ’ set by its mountaineering benefactor Percy Unna , who wanted the hills kept natural . |
| 17 | Neico 's better known 320 model , a two-seat 200 mph-plus homebuilt , is due to be demonstrated in Europe over the next few months . |
| 18 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 19 | The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy . |
| 20 | The UK ambassador to Iraq , Harold Walker , returned to Baghdad after being withdrawn in March over the Bazoft affair [ see p. 37322 ] . |
| 21 | This showed how very different everything was from the situation that had developed in England over the course of centuries , and colonial developments always gave Englishmen the idea that they were moving into empty land and seeing what could be made out of it . |
| 22 | MORE than 2000 houses will be provided in Lothian over the next year in the largest investment programme yet undertaken by Scottish Homes . |
| 23 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |
| 24 | With tongue in cheek , the writer had suggested that a deal be struck with Britain over the Six Counties in the North . |
| 25 | ‘ A lot of hard work has gone into Darlington over the past two years . |
| 26 | The sort of cheap publicity gained by Ukepra over the past week will simply reinforce consumer concern about the integrity of the egg industry and the safety of its product . |
| 27 | The NeXT Computer Inc workstations it is reselling can be supported by CLARiiON over the network but not directly . |
| 28 | Complex political negotiations continued throughout November over the formation of a coalition government , following the October elections [ see pp. 38535-36 ] . |
| 29 | In March 1990 an agreement was signed with Venezuela over the maritime boundaries between the two nations during a three-day visit by Robinson to Caracas , the Venezuelan capital . |
| 30 | Mineral exploration of fluctuating intensity has continued in Britain over the last twenty years . |