Example sentences of "and [noun pl] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his mother had had many arguments and disagreements over the past few years . |
| 2 | The bomb tore through shops and houses over a 1,000 yard radius — stretching from Bridge Street to Castle Street . |
| 3 | There were abortive attempts at a settlement by the American Secretary of State , General Alexander Haig , and discussions over a Peruvian peace plan which would bypass the British contention that it possessed sole sovereignty over the Falklands . |
| 4 | His Chinese counterpart , Qian Qichen , described relations as having " gradually improved " following " difficulties and setbacks over the past 10 years " . |
| 5 | It is , however , vital that mothers realise that scans do not only detect abnormalities , they also detect multiple births , and have been one of the main factors in increasing the survival rate of twins and triplets over the last few years . |
| 6 | HP boasted that over 100 IBM customers had already offloaded or replaced applications from their mainframes over to HP business systems and servers over the past year , and quoted Dataquest figures that show 46% of mainframes sites surveyed in the process of downsizing . |
| 7 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 8 | POLICE last night questioned people in Edinburgh pubs , clubs and restaurants over the fatal stabbing last Saturday of a student , Paul Sheldon . |
| 9 | One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the publicity that has been given to the hills by him and numerous other writers of magazine articles and books over the past 20 or 30 years . |
| 10 | Men , dusty people and folk of diverse devices , people of business and of leisure , folk of the frontiers and foreign men … trackers of beasts and of seasons , breakers of camp in the little dawn wind , seekers of water and watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world , O seekers , O finders of reasons to be up and be gone … |
| 11 | This survey , as so often happens , led from one thing to another , and I became interested in vernacular architecture and the people of the area , particularly in their work and homes over the changing years . |
| 12 | The Europa Hotel is again devastated and offices over a wide area wrecked . |
| 13 | Example 2:16 Exceptions and reservations Excepting and reserving to the landlord : ( 1 ) Easement rights and privileges over the demised property corresponding to those expressly granted to the tenant over the other parts of the building ( 2 ) The right to build on develop deal with use any adjoining or neighbouring property retained by the landlord in such manner as he thinks fit even though the amenity of the demised property or the access of light or air thereto may be lessened thereby and without making any compensation to the tenant ( 3 ) The right at reasonable times and on reasonable notice ( except in emergency ) to enter the demised property for the purposes of ( i ) inspecting the condition and state of repair thereof ; ( ii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) for which the landlord or the tenant is liable under this lease ( iii ) carrying out any works ( whether of repair or otherwise ) to any property adjoining the demised property or to any party structure sewer drain or other thing used by the tenant in common with others ( iv ) measuring testing or valuing the demised property ( including the right to take samples of materials and to open up parts of the demised property which would otherwise be inaccessible ) but making good any damage caused by such an entry ( 4 ) The right for the landlord and the other tenants of the building to pass through the demised property in case of fire or other emergency Example 2:17 Definition of service pipes ' " service pipe " means any pipe , drain , sewer , flue , duct , gutter , wire , cable , optic fibre , conduit , channel or other means of passage or transmission of water , soil , gas , air , smoke , electricity , light , information or other matter and all ancillary equipment or structures |
| 14 | Yet the current momentum of industrial development is expected to result in the disappearance of no less than 20,000 species of plants and animals over the next decade . |
| 15 | Human population expansion is threatening to lead to unprecedented extinctions of plants and animals over the next 50 years , according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) . |
| 16 | If there was flies and rats over every dead thing round here , we 'd have a bigger problem than what we 've got . ’ |
| 17 | Many of the most popular plants in gardens today fist arrived with the flood of introductions which filled our nurseries and gardens over a fifty-year period . |
| 18 | The forum will draw on experience of people who have worked within the industry as commissioning editors , producers and directors over the last decade . |
| 19 | Secondly , the planning of a new town-laying out the lines of streets , lanes , markets , churches and house-plots over a considerable area — required , after all , the investment of a large amount of capital , and a greater degree of economic optimism than most landowners could contemplate . |
| 20 | ISRAEL : Fighting between Israel and Palestinians over the Occupied Territories captured in the Six Day War of 1967 . |
| 21 | It was felt that a randomised control design would produce an unworkable scheme in practice : there was only one development officer in each area and it would be difficult to supervise a large number of clients and carers over a widespread geographical area . |
| 22 | The Department of Health has given the boards £60 a head to train 23 000 eligible HVs and DNs over the next two years . |
| 23 | The latest squabble between supermarkets and banks over the latter 's unilateral decision to hoist transaction charges may of course make debit cards less attractive to consumers if the charges end up being passed on . |
| 24 | Once he saw a great swirling mass of gulls and rooks over a messy area of what seemed upturned soil and rubbish . |
| 25 | If the Region 's urban areas are not to be overdeveloped , greenfield land will be required for housing and businesses over the next fifteen years . |
| 26 | The first of these disputes to emerge was in the Caucasus , where the most serious civil disturbances in Soviet post-war history took place between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over the disputed territorial enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 27 | At Key Stage 2 pupils will go on to look at further examples , such as work or leisure , and changes over a longer timespan . |
| 28 | providing a pathway through the new thinking on cultural representation and gender developed by feminist artists , critics and writers over the last decade , the book is wideranging ; a useful introduction to what might be defined as the field of feminist cultural studies . |
| 29 | Left to itself , the Single Market will favour the strong ‘ core ’ states and regions over the weak ‘ peripheral ’ and ‘ semi-peripheral ’ areas of the Community — many of which are in Britain . |
| 30 | Protests have been made by the local gardening club , Jubilee Citizens Club , a playgroup and WI over the new increased charges that would be forced upon them if the proposal was approved . |