Example sentences of "over [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a mix-up over payment for a meal at a café , and Chapman was hauled off by a gendarme to the police station . |
| 2 | It is typical of the controlling group 's over enthusiasm for the photo press opportunity that they 're anxious to sign anything , even if the policies are not clear . |
| 3 | If a capital sum is paid by the connected body corporate to the settlor then to the extent of the income available in the trust , that capital sum can be taxed as income upon the settlor and the excess of the amount of the capital sum over income for that year can be taxed in subsequent years as income becomes available in the trust . |
| 4 | The early success of adult education arrangements in Norfolk , together with the almost contemporaneous Kettering scheme , had unquestionably buttressed the District 's early and somewhat insecure position vis a vis some other LEAs in fostering co-operation and in establishing its credibility with philanthropic trusts over grant-aid for subsequent enterprises . |
| 5 | WOMEN cyclists from countries including Russia , will be in the region over Easter for a four-day stage race on the Suffolk-Essex border . |
| 6 | Thus , a favoured commercial organisation doing large business with a bank might be charged interest at ‘ 1 per cent over base ’ while an individual client might be paying 4 or 5 per cent over base for an overdraft . |
| 7 | ‘ This is a ticking over fight for Billy . |
| 8 | The landowner is concerned over liability for climbing on the crag , details of which are to be found in the new BMC Peak Guide supplement , and a discreet and sensitive approach is requested until the problems have been sorted out . |
| 9 | Dave Bennet paid £11,000 over reserve for the Countach QV at an auction in Blackbushe , Hants . |
| 10 | The superiority of Macbeth over Measure for Measure in this respect is that it needs no external moral force , such as the Duke , to ‘ Unfold the evil , which is here wrapp 'd up/In countenance . ’ |
| 11 | He pulled out a correspondence file between a landlord and tenant in Ruislip — nearly eighty pages devoted to conflict over responsibility for a dustbin area — and tried to concentrate . |
| 12 | To complicate the issue , the American government may soon hand over responsibility for operating the weather craft to private industry instead ( New Scientist , 17 March , p 706 ) . |
| 13 | Conscious of the increasing demands in terms of time and routine administration , the concept encourages South East Arts towards passing over responsibility for existing South East Arts schemes to stable and well managed clients for their future operation and management within funds agreed between us . |
| 14 | This took place amid rumours of a split within the NEC over support for a common age of consent , and was widely seen as a response to tabloid hysteria on such matters . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the USA , in national opinion polls conducted since Chernobyl , there has been a consistent two-to-one margin of opposition over support for new construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 17 | The first is the one-day national or regional stoppage over some aspect of management policy such as closures , or over support for another group of workers . |
| 18 | Sir Geoffrey rang through to his secretary to ask her to bring in tea , and we chatted over tea for a few minutes . |
| 19 | The route up the Wellenkuppe from the glacier follows a wide snow ramp and then scrambles over rock for a while . |
| 20 | Prompted by the fear of another Cuba in the region and desires for economic growth , Latin American political elites came to an agreement with the United States over aid for reforms . |
| 21 | But once he 's , once he 's resigned himself to that , he 's then got ta look at that operation next door and he must be losing money hand over fist for the amount of space it is . |
| 22 | A notable sleeper was Sotheby 's lot 265 , undercatalogued as ‘ a Meissen figure of an actor ’ , estimated at £700–900 , sold over telephone for £4,800 ( $7,200 ) ; again lot 339 , a Berlin Cabaret set , catalogued misleadingly as circa 1880 , estimated at £1,200–1,800 , was a good buy at £3,200 ( $4,800 ) ; trade sources affirmed it was eighteenth century . |
| 23 | Overall little criticism can be levelled at the Commissioners ' decision making , though there is a problem over help for appellants to the Commissioners . |
| 24 | and er you know I think coming to a , a university is a thing that you know like it 's a very sort of novel experience for a lot of people and you know certainly when I started the human psych course here , you know about twelve , thirteen years ago erm you know I did n't know what on earth was , was requ required and I agonized over work for quite , quite a long time and er |
| 25 | To measure the activities of SOD and glutathione peroxidase , the homogenates were sonicated over ice for two minutes . |
| 26 | too many people , over population for our supply of toxic fumes , oil , gas and coal , they might run out so creativity is the erm inventing finding out the |
| 27 | It was , for all that , quite a struggle for Ballesteros before he at last got his game together over the closing holes for a halfway total of 143 , two ahead of Olazabal , who was one over par for the 36 holes . |
| 28 | Hockley , an assistant in a bakery , was only three over par for yesterday 's round as she stood to her second , a nine iron , at the 15th . |
| 29 | He had a remarkable two at the 12th where he holed out with an eight iron to come home in one over par for the closing nine holes . |
| 30 | Richardson , too , made a mediocre start being one over par for his first six holes , but then birdies at the seventh , ninth and 10th moved him on to the leaderboard . |