Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [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 | D. With modern machinery and techniques of building we are capable of making vast changes in a landscape within a very short time and some of these changes may affect the lives of people over large areas or in many different parts of the UK . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Fish , which in the cold European waters are sluggish and easily caught , often provide the staple for mink over the winter . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | CAPTURE THE VICTORY OF SCIENCE OVER TIME . |
| 24 | Policy changes in the 1970s moved the provision for people over retirement age towards a wholly wage-related scheme of insurance . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The MoD has the power of veto over all British arms exports . |
| 27 | In the light of these beliefs , he concluded ( 1970 p 117 ) that Bentham 's Panopticon far from being progressive could justly be characterised as regressive " since he used its design to vaunt the merits of security over those of liberty . |
| 28 | Such treatment of the ‘ model ’ further reinforces the dominance of object over likeness . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Er w which in turn is is intended to minimize the loss of staff over the next two years . |