Example sentences of "to [adj] [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there has been a consistent theme to British economic policy over many years is clear ; how successfully it has been implemented within the EEC is more obscure . |
| 2 | It is , however , impossible to separate out processes acting at different scales and over different periods : a single volcanic eruption lasting hours or days sometimes leads to dust and gas being ejected into the atmosphere over a period of months and this in turn may lead to global climatic fluctuations over years or decades . |
| 3 | Within the adult education profession at large , there was gratification that the existing providers had been commended for their work , but some fears lest the proposals for future grant allocation might lead to increased governmental control over courses taught . |
| 4 | The struggle to avoid the wrath of divine judgement on the nation and conviction that the crisis of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars both revealed God 's displeasure and offered an opportunity to vindicate the nation 's purity , contributed powerfully to substantial ideological coherence over the slave trade , embracing politically a range from the Toryism of James Stephen to the liberal wing of dissent . |
| 5 | Gen. Kassem asserted that Kuwait had been an integral component of the southern Iraqi province of Basra under Ottoman rule and that Iraq had succeeded to Turkish territorial sovereignty over Basra with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire after the First World War . |
| 6 | He was a big man everything about him was big shoulders , chest , nose eyes and ears everything except his near-flat stomach and his hair which had faded on top and grown to wise-looking grey tufts over his ears . |
| 7 | The system simply gives preference to common grammatical combinations over unusual ones . |
| 8 | NetManage will in turn resell Network Computing 's PC-Xview X server products for Windows- and MS-DOS-based machines , and the PC-Xremote software , which provides high-speed access to remote personal computers over serial lines . |
| 9 | The British , perhaps sensitive to intense American lobbying over the issue , want to adopt the directive as it stands . |