Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thames Water has promised to continue discussions with objectors over the next two to three years before applying for planning permission . |
| 2 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 3 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
| 4 | He dismissed suggestions of disarray over the arrangements to supply £500 million worth of programmes for next year 's schedule . |
| 5 | Many well known companies built ships in Leith over the years . |
| 6 | Ensure that the adhesion is successful by using the pipette to pass streams of buffer over the attached cells . |
| 7 | They were aimed at the sky , poised ready to bounce signals off satellites over the rim of the earth . |
| 8 | I will also focus on the strategies feminists have used to resist sexism in language over the last two decades , which are more varied in their aims and effects than the discussion so far might suggest . |
| 9 | We would begin to thread our way up the railway 's magical valley with sonorous rumbling as we negotiated bridge after bridge over the River Onny . |
| 10 | She told neighbours by telephone over the weekend that she intended to stay in Spain until the end of this month . |
| 11 | Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence . |
| 12 | In the meantime , he appealed to the republics to declare a moratorium " on decisions which give rise to arguments over the issue of competence " , complaining that the alternative was incurable paralysis . |
| 13 | El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 . |
| 14 | Will the Treasury provide guarantees of losses over the life of a franchise on , for example , rural or commuter routes ? |
| 15 | The more resourceful tend to escape charges through influence over the police , to escape custodial remand through bail , and to escape conviction through employing good lawyers . |
| 16 | Figure 3 shows results for P.P. Over the whole velocity range tested , he shows the asymmetry for stimulation of each eye individually , as well as binocularly ; note that this is quite different from the pattern seen in very young normal infants and subjects with defective binocularity , who show no temporal-directed response in either eye but no evident asymmetry in binocular viewing . |
| 17 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
| 18 | It can be seen that the central position of the MTFS is the ‘ monetarist view ’ of inflation that controlling the rate of growth of the money supply is a necessary and sufficient condition for bringing inflation under control over the medium term , covering a period of 3–4 years . |
| 19 | Yesterday 's announcement followed weeks of uncertainty over the future of the plant , which employs 700 people . |
| 20 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 21 | In total , the group has spent £5.1m on acquisitions over the past six months , although it has retained £3m net cash . |
| 22 | It is not , however , necessary that the defendant should assert rights of ownership over the goods : taking for the purposes of acquiring a lien or of temporary use have been held to be conversion . |
| 23 | In recent months a good deal of concern has been expressed about students no longer having access to benefits over the summer vacation . |
| 24 | Small firms benefited from a reform of the Uniform Business Rate , which effectively freezes increases for firms over the next year , inheritance tax changes and new powers to curb late payment of bills . |
| 25 | Arab nationalism came within an ace of overthrowing King Husayn in Jordan , and the latter 's acceptance of UNRWA 's resettlement programme , which also implied agreement with Israel over the Jordan waters , might have tipped the scales against him . |
| 26 | Sprint has also announced demonstration of videoconferencing over the Internet sponsored by the National Science Foundation . |
| 27 | DISCUSSIONS have been taking place in Birkenhead over the future of St Laurence 's parish , and one proposal is that it should be joined to Our Lady 's Parish . |
| 28 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 29 | In the 17th Century the most important routes to the north of England took travellers via crossings over the River Trent at Nottingham and Newark . |
| 30 | Now the company has 270 staff ( it started out with just 30 three years ago ) , has increased production by 20% over the past year and has a turnover of £l2m ( it expects that to rise to £l4m next year ) . |