Example sentences of "with [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | While ditches become filled with silt over time , mounds are gradually flattened by weathering , and if a mound is adjacent to a ditch , this will affect the pattern of silting in the ditch . |
| 2 | Historians would be likely to ‘ mine ’ this resource in different ways , examining it with change over time in mind and linking credit transaction data or travel information with say medical records or socio-economic groups . |
| 3 | The historian normally wants a longer perspective and the more time passes , the more likely it is that research will be concerned with change over time rather than with a ‘ snapshot ’ of 1991 . |
| 4 | In the Eastern Atlantic , at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy where shell-shape variation in N. lapillius is generally reduced ( Crothers , 1983a ) , McEachreon ( 1985 ) has recently demonstrated a shell shape trend with exposure over a proportionally-reduced numerical range . |
| 5 | When gall stones have been dissolved and oral bile acid treatment is withdrawn , bile reverts to being supersaturated with cholesterol over one to four weeks and in some patients , gall stones recur . |
| 6 | At a time when rock fans expected country folk to be psychotic rednecks ready to gun down anyone with hair over their ears — pace Easy Rider — Cash came along and fought for Indian rights , recorded with Bob Dylan , and received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 7 | A dying man threatened with eviction over mortgage arrears has said that the worry has made his suffering worse . |
| 8 | While the Financial Times of Dec. 4 suggested that Torumtay 's resignation had been precipitated by the government 's pro-Islamic policies [ see pp. 37592-93 ] , according to reports on Dec. 5 , senior army officials also attributed it to differences with Özal over the Turkish response to the Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37641 ; 37694 ] . |
| 9 | It was another pattern that would be expanded , developed and perfected with ferocity over the coming 15 years . |
| 10 | I got to the ward with blood over my hands and face . |
| 11 | On May 17 1988 , Computergram Number 930 reported that DEC would give IBM OEM pact for 3480s * * * Siemens and Nixdorf backed IBM-DEC-Hewlett-Packard alternative Unix plan * * * Network Equipment was in dispute with Excelan over acquisition * * * Wang would unbundle VS operating system . |
| 12 | The station hit problems with Equity over payments to cast members . |
| 13 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
| 14 | Bannen , whom she 'd left in the Operations Room , supposedly wracked with grief over the abrupt crash of the simularity of his son . |
| 15 | But , in addition , there arose the possibility of some common agreement with industry over the fact that the economy was being run to the advantage of the City as opposed to industry . |
| 16 | In an ugly incident in November , armed raiders forced staff at the Athena/Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop on Oxford Street , London , to hand over at gunpoint around £4,500 from the safe and left them locked in the basement with tape over their mouths . |
| 17 | Affording no weight to extra market considerations , whether good or bad , means that individual or income group economic welfare is being identified with command over market goods or services alone . |
| 18 | Of more senior rank are the legionary centurions recorded as centuriones regionarii ; they probably had wider responsibilities with oversight over whole districts and only four are known in Britain . |
| 19 | Finally , the dilemmas associated with abuse have more to do with anxiety over taking a moral position than with the complexity of the subject . |
| 20 | ‘ We had to put metal grids down , with sand over the top before we could do any filming . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's inundated with work over there she 's just done a 13-part sitcom for CBS , for example . ’ |
| 22 | ( 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 ] . |
| 23 | My wife and I do n't believe this practice can be illegal but we both feel that such a man with influence over vulnerable young boys is the wrong person to teach them . |
| 24 | Admirals , and those with influence over such officers , were in a position to patronise persons recommended by their friends . |
| 25 | Like all primitive peoples they believed in spirits with influence over human life . |
| 26 | ‘ Group performance will be contingent upon the appropriate matching of leadership styles and the degree of favourableness of the group situation for the leader , that is , the degree to which the situation provides the leader with influence over his group members . ’ |
| 27 | The CA began in 1957 as a small group publishing a magazine with the results of the comparative testing of aspirins and kettles and has since then become a multi-million pound operation with influence over manufacturers and retailers as well as those responsible for the formulation of consumer policy . |
| 28 | This restrained aloofness has had its drawbacks : it has given the bellicose idealists of the Left freedom to ride roughshod with impunity over institutions which have hitherto maintained our nation as civilised and admirable . |
| 29 | It is vital that the social worker does not get hooked into the same set of fears , nor slide into a collusion in supporting staff in their problems with management over staff shortages , overtime , and other organisational difficulties at the expense of meeting needs of residents . |
| 30 | Colchester Institute members of the University and College Lecturers union , NATFHE , have decided to take strike action because negotiations with management over the new contracts are breaking down . |