Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senator Ted Kennedy revealed yesterday that he is to wed lawyer Victoria who 's father is to stand trial over an alleged fraud . |
| 2 | The centre 's manager , Peter Struthers , said last night : ‘ Since we lost George , my wife Ann and myself had paid numerous visits to pet shops over a wide area , on the off chance that he had been brought along by the two thieves . |
| 3 | The keys cover eleven types of payment and eight miscellaneous keys cover the major credit cards , all with programmable limitations to alert the operator when management authorisation must be given to accept vouchers over a certain limit . |
| 4 | The Comintern worked predictably but with difficulty to establish control over the recalcitrant comrades in both factions but was faced with firm opposition from those who did not wish to see Korean communism become a minor branch of the world communist movement directed by Moscow . |
| 5 | They were also able to establish control over the Social Accounting Service , which is the official body through which all enterprises have to make their bank payments , and which has the specific responsibility of checking on the validity of bills of exchange . |
| 6 | In line with this , the archbishop gave his willing support to direct royal taxation of the clergy in order to defray the costs of the conquest of Wales ; he was also aware that such a conquest would enable him to establish control over the wayward Welsh church and bring it into line with the rest of post-Lateran Christendom . |
| 7 | A new Bosch K-Motronic fuel injection and engine management system provides greater efficiency and the Continental 's less restricted engine bay allows a cleaner-breathing inlet system to increase power over the mighty 333bhp of the Turbo R , though by what margin Rolls-Royce is unwilling to disclose . |
| 8 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 9 | It calculated that a typical out-of-work student entitled to housing benefit and income support could have expected to receive £733.80 over the 12-week vacation . |
| 10 | In addition to providing tax incentives to investors , the package required banks and insurance companies to purchase stocks over the next six months , and encouraged pension funds to do likewise . |
| 11 | There was little likelihood of Denmark being able to regain control over the Danish populations lost to Germany in 1864 , nor of Sweden regaining Finland , a Russian province , where there were still large numbers of Swedes . |
| 12 | When they 'd gone Dee-Dee came in , as she often did now , to drink coffee over the sorted clippings . |
| 13 | The attempt to hound companies over a debatable interpretation of one day 's delay shows a particularly nasty form of small-mindedness . |
| 14 | The opportunity for the PLO to assert sovereignty over a specific territory arose through the Jordanian decision in July 1988 to sever administrative and legal links with the West Bank [ see p. 36120 ] . |
| 15 | Gray explained his decision in terms of wishing to exert influence over the next generation of black leaders , to earn a higher salary , and to spend more time with his family and his local Baptist church . |
| 16 | The government had , on Sept. 15 , promised aid of F50,000,000 to help farmers over a difficult period . |
| 17 | Denied any recognition or support from the outside , beleaguered by the blockade , and reportedly unable to exert control over an internal situation rapidly degenerating into anarchy , the BRA leadership remained open to the prospects of a settlement with the PNG government . |
| 18 | He slipped it into his pocket , and turned to help Dimity over a low sooty wall which was all that was left of her kitchen . |
| 19 | The conference also resolved to express concern over the nuclear " threat " posed by Israel and to press for a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East . |
| 20 | Such considerations as the following are widely thought to favour preference over the older hedonistic utilitarianism . |
| 21 | PEOPLE in Edinburgh have been asked to conserve water over the next three days until engineers can repair a water mains which burst this week . |
| 22 | Political power was decentralised in the sense that warriors were able to claim rights over a local territory and enforce their own brand of justice by means of military might . |
| 23 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 24 | Start by making a list of the areas in which you think you might be able to generate coverage over a three-month period . |
| 25 | The large amounts of data needed for such an analysis were obtained by means of a participant observation method which allowed the investigator to record speakers over a long period , returning to collect more data if specific gaps emerged in the course of the analysis ( cf. 3.1 ) . |
| 26 | Three of the 64 Berkshire commoners are refusing to accept a deal under which they would be paid about £750 each to forfeit rights over the built-up part of the US Air Force base and agree not to exercise them in other areas . |
| 27 | The cylinders were intended to give control over the elastic characteristics of the haulage system . |
| 28 | Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey . |
| 29 | Nicholas wore himself out seeking to keep control over every conceivable decision in his own hands , so convinced was he that the sovereign alone could perceive the common good . |
| 30 | Young , Hay , and Ellis ( 1985 ) asked 22 people to keep records over an eight-week period of difficulties they experienced in recognizing people . |