Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The offeror 's directors subsequently felt unable to continue to recommend the offer to its shareholders because of differences in expectations over the combined group 's financing , and the offer was withdrawn with the consent of the target and the Panel . |
| 32 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 33 | Following the talks senior Chinese officials described the British proposals on passports as not conducive to the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong , and criticized the UK for its lack of consultation with China over the colony 's Bill of Rights [ see p. 37319 ] . |
| 34 | I put it in the barn in a seed tray with a piece of glass on top over the winter and the whole lot came up . |
| 35 | There 's been a rise in the number of arrests for drink-driving over the holiday period . |
| 36 | There 's been a rise in the number of arrests for drink-driving over the holiday period . |
| 37 | I am aware , however , that surveying techniques of the last 150 years have been to standards of accuracy of centimetres over the same sort of distance and landscape . |
| 38 | Looking at the story of food in Africa over the last two decades is a depressing business . |
| 39 | The purpose of this project is to investigate the flows into and out of unemployment in Britain over the past twenty years . |
| 40 | There has been a 30–40 per cent reduction in the amount of fat on pigs over the last 10 years , ’ says Professor James . |
| 41 | The exhibition also looks at the making and selling of instruments on Merseyside over the past 200 years . |
| 42 | More importantly , recent research reveals a major lack of consensus among politicians over the basic role of government in the economy [ Harris , 1981 ] . |
| 43 | The hiatus between North and South is most directly shown in terms of trends in employment over the first half of the 1980s . |
| 44 | Bubiyan and Warba were of great strategic importance since Basra , Iraq 's main port , remained inoperative because of a lack of agreement with Iran over the Shatt al-Arab waterway linking Basra with the Gulf . |
| 45 | I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits . |
| 46 | It came about through changes of agreement amongst speakers over the course of time involving greater and greater consensus on open /α : / as the appropriate realization , and it is not fully explainable in purely linguistic terms . |
| 47 | Analysts say Mr Patten has been fighting a war of nerves with China over the proposals , with neither wanting to go into any negotiations from a position of weakness . |
| 48 | Reanalysis of data published in the childhood supplement of the registrar general 's decennial supplement on occupational mortality in England and Wales , which compares numerator data for registrations of deaths in children over the age of 1 but below their 16th birthday in 1979 , 1980 , 1982 , and 1983 with data about children aged 1–15 who were enumerated at the 1981 census . |
| 49 | Despite assurances from advisers over the confidentiality of information presented in the self-appraisal , it seems that most staff were unwilling to produce anything more than a public type of document , providing little more than factual information . |
| 50 | ( The Soviet stance vis-à-vis Iraq had hardened noticeably during November with disillusionment over the expectation that 1,000 Soviet nationals would be allowed out within a few weeks following the Oct. 28-9 visit of Yevgeny Primakov [ see p. 37758 ] . |
| 51 | Protest meetings had been held throughout Romania in July over the authorities ' refusal to release Munteanu and others detained since the violence in Bucharest on June 13-15 . |
| 52 | She lay down on the bed intending simply to relax and restore herself , but within minutes she was deeply asleep , her red-gold hair fanning out like tongues of fire over the white pillows . |
| 53 | In order to head off conflict with Ghana over the replacement , assurances were later given that Quainoo would remain as overall commander , with Dogonyaro in charge of field operations . |
| 54 | ‘ Enterprise democracy ’ , as the decentralised aspect of the socialist control over production by the associated producers , will never be realised unless workers begin to struggle under capitalism for control over the policy and operations of enterprises , and this means exploiting rather than rejecting outright the kind of ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ proposals raised by the Bullock Commission , and more recently by the EEC . |
| 55 | The British Foreign Office said in London yesterday that the government remained keen to hold talks with China without preconditions over the plans for democracy . |
| 56 | That many of today 's church musicians seem to be unfamiliar with developments in hymnody over the last thirty years is noted as significant by the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland . |
| 57 | A team at the university 's dermatology department examined all the 1,354 men and 2,459 women diagnosed with melanoma in Scotland over the period . |
| 58 | Language , literature , thought , art , politics and society become separate territories and are occupied by separate specialists , until it becomes increasingly hard to find any scholars with pretensions to competence over the whole field : K. O. Müller from Göttingen , active in the 1820 's and thirties , is one notable exception , but there were few to approach his breadth then or subsequently . |
| 59 | The composition of the Supreme Soviet would follow closely the proposals set out in the draft Union Treaty [ see pp. 38348-49 ] , whose planned signature on Aug. 20 by five republics had been pre-empted by the coup : the Soviet of the Union would consist of deputies from union republics , elected according to existing quotas , subject to the consent of republican governments ; the Soviet ( Council ) of the Republics would be the upper chamber , dealing with the organization of union bodies and foreign links , with power of veto over the Soviet of the Union , whose responsibilities would involve the rights and freedoms of citizens . |
| 60 | Of the old forest cantons , Uri was always the leader in policies of expansion over the Gotthard into the Ticino . |