Example sentences of "to the [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 2 | I think that the whole business was just another gimmick to add to the many introduced to the Church over these last 20 years . |
| 3 | Er but in order to introduce reasonable facilities for shop stewards , we had to make approaches to the management over a period of time . |
| 4 | Yakovlev wanted to see eight to ten thousand new cultural workers sent to the villages over the next two to three years . |
| 5 | Harris , restored to the team for this match , was first to the ball over the line and Liley converted from the touchline . |
| 6 | ‘ But they love to push up and that might leave them vulnerable to the ball over the top . |
| 7 | It played at , among other places , the newly formed Leicester Square Jazz Club which met in premises belonging to the NSPCC over the Café de l'Europe . |
| 8 | Erm , whilst those credit approvals do bring reimbursement to the council over time , the equivalent amount to grant in broad terms . |
| 9 | President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution . |
| 10 | Many tributes were paid to 's invaluable help and friendship to the Society over many years , a cake made and decorated by our members was presented to , also a basket of flowers , and QTs joined in her 90th Birthday celebrations . |
| 11 | The trapeze hangs lightly from a toggle , the toggle hangs from the end of a proper fishing line , the line passes over a springy pole to the door over the mouth of the basket where the little fish 's wriggling so free . |
| 12 | The study , conducted by a leading provider of export insurance , reveals that the value of losses reported by UK companies exporting to the EC over the last five years rose by 248 per cent . |
| 13 | I am on the radical wing of the ‘ leave-them-alone ’ camp and spurn the US Army research which proved that 80 percent of carefully burst blisters reattach to the skin over time . |
| 14 | Norman Tebbit and Cecil Parkinson were speaking at a meeting of the ‘ Conservative Way Forward ’ , a group of irreconcilables whose toast was to the Queen over the water . |
| 15 | These children are oblivious to the row over badgers and TB , for them there 's just the magic of seeing the cubs at close range . |
| 16 | As previously explained , to the new LIBOR for each period is added the spread to provide the loan 's interest cost to the borrower over the next three , six or twelve months . |
| 17 | ‘ And the king was much moved , and went up to the chamber over the gate , and wept : and as he went , thus he said , O my son Absalom , my son , my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee , O Absalom , my son , my son ! ’ |
| 18 | By the most amazing coincidence Caroline 's daughter , Barbara Griggs ( also a Medau Teacher ) , has gone to live in America about 80 miles — a mere ‘ backyard ’ distance to the folk over there — from where Sarah has returned . |
| 19 | Admiralty Pacific would like to send 25 million tonnes of garbage to the islands over the next five years . |
| 20 | She did not , thought Henry bitterly , as he dragged himself out of bed and weaved his way to the bathroom over Elinor 's discarded knickers , go to classes in being thin , or classes designed to allow the participants to hold one idea in their heads for more than five minutes . |
| 21 | She drew away to the balcony over the lobby , feeling incapable , looking down at the bawling men in dinner jackets far below and the women with stiff hair . |
| 22 | He also made it clear that motorsport 's ruling authority would be introducing a range of far-reaching changes to the sport over the next two years . |
| 23 | These investments make war so dangerous for both sides that it would be pure madness for any government to push things to the brink over Morocco . |
| 24 | The heads of these offices might be men of authority and influence , but they owed little of this to the departments over which they presided . |
| 25 | In a similar manner it is possible to draw a profile of the flight showing its height above the ground relative to the terrain over which the aircraft was flying . |
| 26 | Far from Mr Atkins being considered the distant , unsympathetic figure depicted in the article , he has been a frequent visitor to the school over the past two years , giving support and advice to help us achieve our aims . |
| 27 | LORD TEBBIT vowed yesterday that the ‘ wretched ’ Maastricht treaty could still be defeated in the Commons , despite the setback to the Euro-rebels over the social chapter . |
| 28 | Hundreds of people took to the water over the weekend to recreate ancient and strange boat races . |
| 29 | In contrast , by the time we get to the division over the standing army in 1699 — normally thought to have been a Court–Country rather than a party issue — there were only 36 Whigs out of a total of 221 on the Country side . |
| 30 | There can be no doubt that Linda Nochlin has played an important role in making feminist interests and priorities visible ; this collection shows some of the ways in which she has brought these issues to the surface over the last twenty years . |