Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noel 's Garden Party will be packing them in at Haydock Park for two days over the August Bank Holiday . |
| 2 | Following a further visit to Paris for talks with Mitterrand and French Prime Minister Michel Rocard on May 28-29 , Mazowiecki said that he had received support for Polish demands over the Polish-German border issue , as well as its request to participate in the " two-plus-four " talks on German unification [ see also above ] . |
| 3 | At the same time , American investors , including the $68 billion California state pension fund , are considering suing some of Japan 's ‘ Big Four ’ investment houses for massive damages over the practice of tobashi , the switching of losses and profits between favoured and unfavoured discretionary clients . |
| 4 | Responsibility for bibliographical services over the whole authority normally resides with a senior officer based at headquarters — a post usually known as Bibliographical Services Officer , less commonly as Stock Editor . |
| 5 | Random Century have produced a beautiful ‘ gift pack ’ of the book ( hardback ) , lavishly and handsomely illustrated by the author , together with this cassette , making a highly desirable present for any child over the age of three . |
| 6 | THERE HAS BEEN A CONSENSUS among European drug researchers for many years over the value of needle exchanges , but US politicians ignored their recommendations . |
| 7 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming the £24 billion programme for public housing over the next three years detailed by the Department of the Environment yesterday ? |
| 8 | Accompanying these fiscal restraints were demands for greater accountability over the ways in which schools used their resources and fulfilled their broader teaching responsibilities . |
| 9 | Here the Anglo-Norman chancery was in the vanguard with the production of writs — commands addressed to the king-duke 's officials , used in eleventh-century Normandy , but developed in the course of the twelfth into the chief instrument for central control over the localities and for legal innovation . |
| 10 | A series of four wins gave them 12 more points at the most important time to guarantee not only the victory but a bonus for top scoring over the two legs of the match . |
| 11 | Again Heston held a good deal of creative control over the enterprise , and made his point to Caulfield by writing him a firm letter telling him to be on time or else . |
| 12 | Decommissioning the station will cost £220 million and will result in the loss of 490 jobs over the next two years . |
| 13 | Salinity on density surfaces close to the temperature and salinity minimum of LSW from the CONVEX-91 northern section shows two main features ( Fig. 2 b ) : first , an increase in salinity from west to east ( high salinity values over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Rockall plateau are probably the result of enhanced mixing over the topography ) ; second , a change in the density surface of the salinity minimum . |
| 14 | His discussions with the Pope led to Charles ' confirmation of papal rights over the Exarchate of Ravenna , from Ferrara and Commachio in the north , to Osimo in the south . |
| 15 | Although there are dangers in concentrating on a single see , the information provided by Gregory does allow a study of episcopal elections over the best part of a century . |
| 16 | Elections for 105 seats in the 151-member Tsogdu are by universal suffrage of all adults over the age of 17 ; 10 are reserved for religious bodies and the remainder are occupied by officials , ministers and members of the Royal Advisory Council . |
| 17 | A senior police officer is insisting that Oxford 's joyriding problem is under control , despite an outbreak of nine incidents over the weekend . |
| 18 | First , there is foreign economic policy-making involving the external relations of the national economy to the world economy ; second , there is stabilisation policy and the whole field of macroeconomic policy and the management " of the economy ; and finally , there is industrial policy covering all those aspects of governmental responsibility over the economy aimed at improving long-run efficiency , output and productivity . |
| 19 | The history of conflict between the peoples of this region over the centuries was interpenetrated by episodes in which it was subject to the imperial development of Rome , Macedon , Byzantium and the various peoples that streamed out of Central Asia into Persia and beyond . |
| 20 | After planting , spread a thick mulch of organic matter over the soil around the trees to conserve moisture . |
| 21 | Pin , tack then machine the soft side of touch-and-close fastener over the raw edges . |
| 22 | The brouhaha of recent days over the behaviour of Lonrho , and the Observer newspaper which it owns , should not be allowed to cloud this issue . |
| 23 | The Austrian and Czechoslovak governments announced in January that they would distribute iodine tablets , intended to help combat radiation sickness , to their citizens in the light of growing concern over the safety of some Czechoslovak nuclear plants . |
| 24 | In the light of continuing concern over the supply and training of such employees it seeks to investigate : a ) company experience of skill shortages and responses to them ; b ) strategies used by firms to recruit and retain employees ; c ) the extent and nature of company provision for the training and re-training of employees : d ) the opportunities provided for career progression into more advanced technological and managerial positions . |
| 25 | the proliferation of technical manuals over the last twenty years has meant that the number of manuals supplied with complex aircraft/systems has increased to the point where it is practically impossible to access all the information in the ‘ library ’ ( Fig. 1 shows an example of technical manual growth rate within the Naval Air Systems Command ) ; |
| 26 | The report concluded that the Soviet Union and not the NKLP connoted the reality of power — ‘ The NKLP is merely an instrument of Soviet control over the northern half of the peninsula . ’ |
| 27 | There must also be a place for ‘ commodity-money relations ’ , or in other words the market , which was an ‘ irreplaceable means for the flexible economic coordination of production with growing and constantly changing public requirements and an important instrument of public control over the quality of goods and the costs of their production ’ . |
| 28 | Pride of place went to an architect 's drawing of Carinish Court over the fireplace . |
| 29 | Argentine diplomats insisted that the accords did not in any way imply recognition of British sovereignty over the Falklands Islands . |
| 30 | An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " . |