Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He dismissed suggestions of disarray over the arrangements to supply £500 million worth of programmes for next year 's schedule . |
| 4 | Ensure that the adhesion is successful by using the pipette to pass streams of buffer over the attached cells . |
| 5 | Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Will the Treasury provide guarantees of losses over the life of a franchise on , for example , rural or commuter routes ? |
| 8 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
| 9 | Yesterday 's announcement followed weeks of uncertainty over the future of the plant , which employs 700 people . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sprint has also announced demonstration of videoconferencing over the Internet sponsored by the National Science Foundation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thus change in household and housing circumstances of people over the 1970s will be analysed by their characteristics at the earlier census to establish which factors are important in this process . |
| 15 | If finalized , the agreement would be the last of four deals designed to end decades of wrangling over the issue of rights to the land above the 60th parallel and to the oil and gas contained therein . |
| 16 | The Argentinian Foreign Minister said that his country did not require guarantees of sovereignty over the Falklands as long as they remained in Argentinian possession , and strikes broke out in hospitals . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it is good practice to grant the tenant express rights of access over the common parts of the building . |
| 18 | He 's sanctioned a request by Malvern Hills Council to create a 5 mile exclusion zone around the common , banning convoys of travellers over the coming Bank Holiday . |
| 19 | He had been asked to make savings of £440,000 over the next three years but says , without more money , police vacancies will be frozen and jobs will be lost . |
| 20 | Mr and Mrs Cossins , of Rye Close , Eaglescliffe , refused offers of abortions over the unexpected pregnancies . |