Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 'll be playing for civic pride in Hereford over the coming week … more than a thousand sports men and women from Cheltenham , Worcester and Hereford are competing in 21 different sports in the annual ’ Sport for All ’ festival . |
| 2 | The Central Bank 's first director , Wonter Bernard ( a Dutch official whose appointment was financed by the IMF resigned after reported disagreements with Herrigel over the bank 's independence from government control . |
| 3 | The first signs of political discontent in England over the conduct of the war surfaced in the parliament of February 1371 , when the commons refused to grant a subsidy until the king 's clerical ministers of state had been replaced by laymen who , unlike their clerical counterparts , would be liable to answer for their misdeeds in the royal courts . |
| 4 | They favoured ZOPFAN as the kind of indigenous initiative they had hoped to stimulate under the umbrella notion of collective security , but in the absence of clear agreement in ASEAN over neutralisation they were loath to become committed to a proposal which could be turned against themselves . |
| 5 | As Table 4 indicates , substantial changes took place in the structure of residential services in Nottinghamshire over the period of the study . |
| 6 | The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment . |
| 7 | So while you can talk about the expansion of federal powers and the dominance of the national government in certain areas , it is but nothing compared to the dominance of central government in Britain over , over local government . |
| 8 | Above all , despite frequent irritation with Helen over trivial expenses and her unbusinesslike attitude to her wages , he relied heavily on her temper , ‘ her genius for joy ’ , to help him break free of these moods . |
| 9 | THE STORY of vertebrate life in Britain over the past 2 million years or so is fascinating . |
| 10 | On the issue of pre-1935 appeasement of Mussolini over Abyssinia he quotes from L. S. Amery 's ‘ diary ’ , which is referred to in a footnote as My Political Life , vol. 3 ( 1955 ) and also refers to two other accounts of the same events in Viscount Templewood 's Nine Troubled Years , pt. 2 ( 1954 ) , and Sir Anthony Eden 's Facing the Dictators ( 1962 ) . |
| 11 | There were reports of anti-government demonstrations in Armenia over the defeat . |
| 12 | Given the number of prominent cases of judicial error in Britain over the past few years — Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , Stefan Kiszcko , the Tottenham Three and Judith Ward — it is not an abstract question . |
| 13 | What is certain , however , is that these structural and geographical changes in the population have , in combination , produced a profound transformation in the population size and composition of most places in Britain over the past two decades . |
| 14 | The acute shortages of public funds for basic education in Zambia over the past decade have led to an increasing reliance on external aid to finance educational initiatives . |
| 15 | Granville Again , an unlucky faller when poised to deliver his challenge in the race 12 months ago , has been off the track since he finished eight lengths third behind Mighty Mogul at Kempton over Christmas . |
| 16 | KABUL — Fifteen mujahedin rockets slammed into residential areas of Kabul over the weekend , killing 10 people and wounding 27 , writes Ahmed Rashid . |
| 17 | This , coupled with internal conflicts at Motorola over the 680x0 program , led to a weak positioning of both product lines . |
| 18 | My predecessors and I have enjoyed a close and fruitful working relationship with local authorities in Wales over many years and I believe that that has contributed significantly to the efficient and effective conduct of business between central and local government which is the key to the debate . |
| 19 | More than 130 people , mostly Egyptian militants and police , have died in political violence in Egypt over the last 14 months . |
| 20 | To understand the significance of these most recent changes , it is first necessary to review the main trends in social mobility in Britain over the past fifty years , before considering those developments that have become more marked since the mid-1970s . |
| 21 | He also became embroiled in another conflict with Britain over Syria and Lebanon . |
| 22 | Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure . |
| 23 | Indeed the tone of reports emanating from Washington between August 1949 and May 1950 gave cause for increasing alarm in Seoul over ultimate American intentions . |
| 24 | The United States , the United Kingdom , and France were obliged to abstain from the vote on Resolution 731 ( 1992 ) because they are parties to this dispute with Libya over allegations surrounding the Lockerbie and UIA bombings that were the very subject matter of this resolution . |
| 25 | ‘ Basing myself on long experience of Churchill over the India Bill , I decided to disregard what he said and go straight ahead . ’ |
| 26 | Odd codling to 3 lb at Sandown over low water . |
| 27 | Intensive diplomatic activity in the first half of September included ( i ) meetings by the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Amman on Aug. 31-Sept. 1 , which the former described on Sept. 2 as disappointing ; ( ii ) numerous visits to the region and bilateral consultations , including Baker 's tour of the Gulf and European capitals , and a Gulf visit on Aug. 31-Sept. 5 by UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , which was marked by hostile demonstrations in Jordan over British policy ; and ( iii ) the superpower summit meeting in Helsinki on Sept. 9 . |
| 28 | The Bolger government was further discomfited by renewed tension with France over the Rainbow Warrior affair . |
| 29 | External relations were dominated by increasing tension with Pakistan over Kashmir [ see below ; p. 37965 ; see also p. 38631 ] . |