Example sentences of "[verb] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1870s leaders of the women 's movement , particularly teachers working for the extension of educational opportunities , were caught over support for the repeal campaign . |
| 2 | Quite the contrary , degrees of review may have differed over time but it is indisputable that the judiciary accepted that non-jurisdictional errors of law could exist . |
| 3 | These advantages may relate to factor supplies , technology spillovers from domestic firms that can only be captured by locating there , the need to jump over trade barriers , or simply the opportunity to exploit a potential monopoly position . |
| 4 | It had been expected that the AIX Unix database would be a derivation of DB/2 , the latest version of Database Manager for OS/2 , but IBM said on Friday that the two products would only ‘ merge over time ’ . |
| 5 | It had been expected that the AIX Unix database would be a derivation of DB/2 , the latest version of Database Manager for OS/2 , but IBM said that the two products would only ‘ merge over time ’ . |
| 6 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 7 | Legal split widens over bill to end monopoly . |
| 8 | MINIS , moreover , was an ongoing system capable of having refinements added over time . |
| 9 | It flickered over stone walls , glinting on darker , shinier patches here and there . |
| 10 | The torchlight flickered over gilt lettering at the top of the gate and the two words ‘ GREY FRIARS ’ glinted briefly before disappearing into the darkness again . |
| 11 | Yes , do n't you dare come over smoking ! |
| 12 | Scientists at Reading University have made a plant-stroking machine which brushes polythene strips over test plant leaves for an hour a day . |
| 13 | His personal preference for sculling over rowing assisted the introduction of quadruple sculls to world championship and Olympic competition . |
| 14 | Like the best wines , distinguished architecture matures over time : 50 years from now , Lloyds will be championed by as yet unborn conservationists , fought over in the media and ultimately listed Grade One . |
| 15 | The key point made by these analyses of team or group development is that effectiveness ( see below ) is an outcome which develops over time , as the group begin to understand what is required of them and how they can utilise the knowledge , skills and attributes of the individual members in fulfilling group and individual goals . |
| 16 | As Tuckman 's analysis shows , cohesiveness develops over time . |
| 17 | Finally , it is important to note that however tight an exclusion clause may be , it will not prevent the introduction of new fiduciary duties into the relationship between firm and customer as it develops over time . |
| 18 | Second , so many features of our own constitutional practices are debated one at a time in just this way , that it is implausible to claim conventionalism as a good interpretation of the process by which our legal culture shifts and develops over time . |
| 19 | He looks over school age . |
| 20 | There is a fully equipped kitchen , washing machine , and the garden , featuring a barbecue and splash pool looks over farmland and woods . |
| 21 | Winter was coming , and eagles wanted to be out there on the winds , planning , checking over territory , grouping after the isolations of spring and summer mating and rearing . |
| 22 | But most attention went to the largest elephant of all , a fifteen-foot-high inflatable which towered over MP Paddy Ashdown — only recently elected leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats — as he officially cut the green ribbon across the door of the Greenpeace-funded Stop Hinkley Centre . |
| 23 | This kind of short-term priming effect ( occurring over interpresentation periods of a second or so ) is not the only form of priming , however . |
| 24 | In this chapter , the primary concern is with changes occurring over time spans from minutes to centuries and from spatial wavelengths from about 1 m to about 100 km . |
| 25 | It leads on to one of the basic processes of geographical inquiry , to study the impact of processes occurring over time on different areas . |
| 26 | It does so through the authority it exercises over government officials , and because the population at large is willing to see morality enforced , even in matters in which they are not subject to the authority of the government . |
| 27 | Certainly the government may exert an indirect influence on these injections ( e.g. investment may be encouraged by lower interest rates ) , but the degree of control is not as powerful or certain as that which it exercises over government expenditure . |
| 28 | It is impossible to be precise over how much influence Parliament exercises over government policy . |
| 29 | In doing so , Bourdieu continues , Lévi-Strauss skates over the ‘ temporal nature ’ and cycle of reciprocity involved in symbolic exchanges and the hard empirical reality of symbolic power that creditor exercises over debtor . |
| 30 | For them , and for some neglected novelists , Time would always be a wayward thing , climbing over life like a variegated ivy over some old house . |