Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October of that year , Hickson and Jacques joined forces and met the Director of Education over the possibility of a combined approach to the development of adult education which would reflect the recommendations of Circular 1444 . |
| 2 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 3 | Thus , while the British government shared the concern in Washington over Soviet encouragement of a separatist movement in the northern Iranian province of Azerbaijan in the early months of 1946 , Bevin wisely chose to act merely in parallel with the United States at the UN . |
| 4 | She especially distrusted the row of photographs over the fireplace . |
| 5 | First , ‘ complete lives egalitarianism ’ : this approach suggests that to decide if the allocation of resources between people is fair , we should compare the allocation of resources over the complete life . |
| 6 | It provides a rather more formal learning structure , and given the price of beer over a session can probably be had at a similar cost . |
| 7 | There never have been any economic or social targets , but given the attitude of government over the first seven years of the LDDC this is hardly surprising . |
| 8 | Suggestions in the bill for an independent panel of experts to be given the power of veto over the research were rejected . |
| 9 | He stood there a while longer , mindlessly enjoying the flow of water over his limbs . |
| 10 | The conclusion upsets the superiority of metaphor over metonymy : In what sense metonymic ? |
| 11 | The Chinese State Circus is on its first National Tour … and around 18000 people are expected to see the show in Cheltenham over the next two weeks : |
| 12 | KINGSTONIAN manager Chris Kelly could face a charge of bringing the game into disrepute over his outrageous comments this week . |
| 13 | FA CHIEF executive Graham Kelly was last night accused of bringing the game into disrepute over his court-room comments in defence of Gary Blissett . |
| 14 | It is well nigh impossible to compare the rate of crime over extended periods of time ( as Reading 10 , Chapter 5 , taken from Pearson 's study , indicates ) . |
| 15 | From 1888 he served on the new Cumberland county council , opposing the construction of roads over Lakeland passes , reducing mining pollution , and organizing the proper signposting of footpaths . |
| 16 | But when average shrinkage — the retailers ' word for shoplifted goods — is expressed as a percentage of net profit before tax , the position is much worse , reflecting the reduction in profits over the last two years . |
| 17 | The decision on the existence of a dispute in Leigh therefore led the court into error over the capacity of a partnership to act as arbitrators . |
| 18 | In the theoretical sections of this Lecture , we have described how taxation may affect the development of endowments over generations , taking account of the transmission of earning capacity and the inheritance of wealth . |
| 19 | Fish , which in the cold European waters are sluggish and easily caught , often provide the staple for mink over the winter . |
| 20 | Because its essential expression was money , which merely expresses the relationship of exchange , other forms of expression which demonstrated the domination of persons over persons had to supplement it . |
| 21 | Africa Confidential of June 14 said that although 13 members of the government were Issaqs , its membership was " carefully balanced " between the main Issaq sub-clans and other clans ; the delay in appointing the government underlined the lack of agreement over the secession among SNM leaders , some of whom regarded the measure not as final but as merely a " step towards renegotiating the 1960 unification and redressing an unequal relationship " . |
| 22 | CAPTURE THE VICTORY OF SCIENCE OVER TIME . |
| 23 | Policy changes in the 1970s moved the provision for people over retirement age towards a wholly wage-related scheme of insurance . |
| 24 | Moreover , the committee , to be commended for having conducted its extensive researches and drawn its conclusions within a few months , has the advantage of immediacy over the Clark and Palmer committees , which sat over so long a period , in a rapidly changing environment , that eventually no one who was still able to recall the original brief was sure whether it was still relevant to the prevailing situation . |
| 25 | The MoD has the power of veto over all British arms exports . |
| 26 | Such treatment of the ‘ model ’ further reinforces the dominance of object over likeness . |
| 27 | Where an innkeeper exercises the right of lien over the property of a guest , the innkeeper owes to the guest whose property the innkeeper is retaining a duty to take reasonable care of the property in question . |
| 28 | Er w which in turn is is intended to minimize the loss of staff over the next two years . |
| 29 | Some experiments will be conducted where video sequences of voice and face do not match ; and , in order to evaluate the primacy of face over voice , the onset of each will be varied . |
| 30 | A subsequent stage could then monitor the change in output over time and locate edges at the points at which the cell 's output changes from below to above background as the edge sweeps over the receptive field . |