Example sentences of "[be] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been disagreements over the timetable : France thought the transitional period was too short , while others wanted even faster movement . |
| 2 | There have been snags over the asking price of £1million , a record for a goalkeeper . |
| 3 | There are views over Hyde Park and from the room they can see the Household Cavalry exercising in the mornings . |
| 4 | For many years there have been worries over the increasing monopolisation of British industry , as evidenced by increased levels of both aggregate and market concentration , and for which there is little doubt that merger activity has , at times , been a major causal factor ( see e.g. HMSO 1978 , Hughes 1989 ) . |
| 5 | Bassett adds : ‘ There have been opportunities over the past couple of years where clubs have shown an interest in me . |
| 6 | Always at the back of the mind are worries over how well one will get on with the other artists . |
| 7 | It would have been defeat over what I now knew for certain was a perfectly reasonable and legal procedure which I would have found hard to handle . |
| 8 | There are doubts over the efficacy of the safeguarding arrangements , particularly in the light of the difficulties of ’ policing ’ the system . |
| 9 | Trevor Steven and Dale Gordon have recovered from flu , but there are doubts over David Robertson and Stuart McCall . |
| 10 | The reasons for the shift from regarding sign language as one universal form of communication to seeing sign languages as highly different from each other are easy to understand , but the result has been confusion over what questions remain to be asked about the differences between sign languages . |
| 11 | Beyond the unities of the present moment , there are unities over time . |
| 12 | But there are concerns over the longer term outlook , with the all-important coal contracts up for renegotiation . |
| 13 | Within three months , the epidemic strain was cultured from 3 other patients ( M30 , M32 , and M34 ) who had been inpatients over the Christmas period , and had had close contact with patients M8 and M10 . |
| 14 | There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists . |
| 15 | But you go in there , you 're way over your fuckin' heads ! ’ |
| 16 | Once he had been chieftain over the lands which had been rewarded to Richard Carew for his services to Oliver Cromwell . |
| 17 | But there have been disappointments over the years when in the heat of excitement he seemed unable to control an over-inflammable Slavonic temperament . |
| 18 | There had been speculation over his future after he was dropped by the South-West . |
| 19 | There had been speculation over the candidacy since the SPD 's defeat in the 1990 general election and Engholm 's election as party chair the following May [ see pp. 37904-05 ; 38199 ] . |
| 20 | The Library 's budget is very tight this year , and there have already been questions over whether the Library should be carrying the cost of the large number of pesticide-related publications we currently take . |
| 21 | There are fears over the future of a theatre following a decision to bring in new management . |
| 22 | There are fears over the future of the Highland lines , though MacGregor dismissed them . |
| 23 | First , there are problems over ‘ ambiguity ’ , and whether to use Fielding 's definition of counterurbanization as the opposite of urbanization , or to extend the term to Robert and Randolph 's ( 1983 ) prerequisites including both decentralization and deconcentration . |
| 24 | The law gives dividing lines , but there have been changes over time . |
| 25 | Finally , there have been changes over time in the rates of divorce and marriage , although the significance of these for patterns of kin relations may be not so obvious as it first appears . |
| 26 | Thus there have been changes over time in patterns of support between generations , but these are not necessarily a result of individuals ' changing beliefs and values about family responsibilities . |
| 27 | There are difficulties over apparent differences in reporting standards between different Reporting Officers . |
| 28 | " She 's been head over heals in love with you for ages , " said Lady Agatha impatiently . |
| 29 | These two characteristics are control over an independent source of taxation and the legitimacy conveyed by popular election of the local council . |
| 30 | The commission has been non-committal over whether there should be Chinese walls between the issuing and trading sides of Wall Street firms ' junk-bond desks . |