Example sentences of "to [noun] [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grace Carter , who spends hours each day talking to truck drivers over the airwaves , says the Chesnut Street car park should have proper facilities . |
| 2 | Parentally condoned absenteeism can , according to research studies over the past ten or so years , account for as much as 50–75 per cent of non-excused absenteeism . |
| 3 | There has been a series of trials within the Engineering Branch of the RAF of the technologies related to expert systems over the past 5 to 10 years . |
| 4 | The accretion process spins up the neutron star to millisecond periods over a timescale of 10 7 –10 8 yr , and , when mass transfer ceases , the system consists of a millisecond pulsar in a circular orbit with a low-mass companion . |
| 5 | The barring of non-Estonian citizens , mostly Russians , Ukrainians and Byelarussians , drew protests from the Russian leadership and appeared to fuel tension over the issue of Russian troop withdrawal from Estonia [ see this page ] . |
| 6 | In practice , however , this is not essential for all species , and in particular those which have come acclimated to aquarium life over a period of many years are remarkably tolerant of what is strictly quite unsuitable water chemistry . |
| 7 | On May 30 Honduras protested officially to El Salvador over an attack on a Honduran patrol in Honduran waters on May 23 and the violation of airspace on May 29 when , it said , a Salvadorean aircraft had dropped propaganda leaflets on refugee camps in the border area . |
| 8 | A proposal by French President François Mitterrand to strengthen UN peacekeeping functions by reactivating the UN Military Staff Committee , composed of senior military officers from the five permanent members of the Security Council [ see p. 37640 for its August 1990 meeting over the Gulf crisis ] , failed to win support , reportedly due to Franco-US disagreement over the command of UN peacekeeping forces . |
| 9 | President Bush signed into law on Dec. 18 a transport bill which allocated $119,000 million of federal funds to road construction over a six-year period , and $31,500 million to mass transit . |
| 10 | During the course of the century the limitations to government authority over the pomeshchiks were fully exposed . |
| 11 | Featuring an exceptional collection of photographs , informative illustrations and maps , this book combines first hand accounts along with historical facts and figures relating to air combat over the past 78 years . |
| 12 | On the 6th S/L W M Kynock took the veteran Lancaster to Ijmuiden in Holland , but owing to cloud cover over the target , the Master Bomber turned back Sugar and the rest of the Lancaster force and no attack was made . |
| 13 | Ministers won a vote to give a private company , Scallop Kings , exclusive rights to farm shellfish over an area of seabed along the shore south- west of Fort William . |
| 14 | The threat of the 1974 Act was the challenge posed to agency control over the enforcement of regulatory deviance by publicity and a strict liability law . |
| 15 | The London area plays a pivotal role in national migration patterns ( Flowerdew and Salt , 1979 ; Salt and Flowerdew , 1980 ) , so policy developments relating to south-east England over the next few years will be crucial to the way in which urban and regional patterns of population distribution evolve in the foreseeable future . |
| 16 | They added that the failure to discipline staff over the BCCI affair had undermined its future effectiveness . |
| 17 | The first appreciable new residential development subsequent to the war , to take place in Chiswick , occurred in 1956 , on a section of land between the Cubitt 's Yacht Basin and the end house in Hartington Road , close to Chiswick Bridge over the River Thames . |
| 18 | A CHURCH minister 's plea to John Major over the closure of old people 's homes in County Durham looks to have failed . |
| 19 | The first , ‘ conservative ’ option proposes a gradual switch to market principles over an unspecified number of years . |