Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Excess liability " means the excess of liability to income tax over what it would be if all income tax not chargeable at the lower rate were charged at the basic rate to the exclusion of any higher rate . |
| 2 | It certainly can not , therefore , be used to measure change over time : one of the reasons for its use . |
| 3 | Grace Carter , who spends hours each day talking to truck drivers over the airwaves , says the Chesnut Street car park should have proper facilities . |
| 4 | The Open Software Foundation , based in Cambridge , Massachusetts is apparently bowing to user pressure over its pricing for the Distributed Computing Environment , and will announce significant price reductions for one-time Distributed Computing licences , distribution rights and royalty fees at UniForum on March 17 . |
| 5 | Brixton Systems , the first company to route TCP/IP over SNA , is teaming with Bull-owned integrator Integris to develop a series of mainframe-specific SNA products for Unix . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | THE OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION BOWS TO INDUSTRY COMPLAINTS OVER ITS PRICING POLICY … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | Finally , a few guideline wishes for the 1990s : undoubtedly , first , that the Channel Tunnel will be completed without undue delay and that a new highspeed route will rapidly follow through Kent ; that under their new chairman , Robert Reid the second , from Shell , due to take his post in October 1990 , BR will somehow regain a touch of personality , warmth , humanity , without losing their commercial edge ; that the policy of providing new and cheaperto-operate stock for secondary routes rather than handing down yesterday 's worn-out express trains pays real dividends and prevents too much discussion of ‘ bustitution ’ ; and that defensive theory will give way to common-sense pragmatism over matters such as the quality of the printed timetable and what really benefits the customer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although the receiver part of the ICOM set worked perfectly when tuned to ground stations over 30nm away , the transmitter seemed to be at the extremity of its practical range at about 12- 15nm , almost regardless of height . |
| 14 | Is it enough for society in general or the patient in particular to leave decisions over life and death to the doctor ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Twenty fours earlier he produced a similar spell to bowl Lancashire to championship victory over Surrey at The Oval . |
| 17 | During the course of the century the limitations to government authority over the pomeshchiks were fully exposed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Greenpeace is deeply concerned that this development will lead to monopoly control over genetic resources and an even greater dependence on herbicides . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Right , so erm , what 's happened to , to world trade over time , say in the last century , what major changes have taken place in world trade ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Civil Service view is that what is best for the country is a continuation of the centrist and consensual policies that have been developed and sold to party politicians over many years . |
| 26 | They added that the failure to discipline staff over the BCCI affair had undermined its future effectiveness . |
| 27 | The first , ‘ conservative ’ option proposes a gradual switch to market principles over an unspecified number of years . |