Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In total , the group has spent £5.1m on acquisitions over the past six months , although it has retained £3m net cash . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The MoD plans to spend £700m on simulators over the next 10 years , but the report urged them to study the effectiveness of simulator training , and said some are old and outdated . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thames Water has promised to continue discussions with objectors over the next two to three years before applying for planning permission . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ At the end of the day I 've got three kids to look after and they 're going to get stick in school over this . ’ |
| 11 | China has agreed to resume talks with Britain over the future of Hong Kong . |
| 12 | The auditors do try to avoid entanglement with arguments over local policy ; nevertheless they are permanent watchdogs with powers of scrutiny and criticism . |
| 13 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 14 | He looked so miserable I decided to cheer him up by inviting him to join our little game , and started throwing handfuls of water over him . |
| 15 | Solidarity agreed to hold talks with Olszewski over energy prices . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Hurd tries to heal split with China over Hong Kong |
| 18 | and they did have bungalows for Rhodesians over here in different parts of England |
| 19 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 20 | TWO Irishmen have declared war on Britain over a lump of rock . |
| 21 | By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life . |
| 22 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |