Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inland changes to sites over the last 1000 years do not seem to have been so drastic . |
| 2 | It hails from a strong mainframe background , which still represents 85% of it sales , though it says it is looking to downsize this commitment to 70% over the next two years . |
| 3 | The transfer project , conducted between 1953 and 1955 , was designed to establish settlements on the barren islands in order to assist Canadian claims to sovereignty over the region . |
| 4 | And the third factor was the splintering of the collective voice of the Chiefs of Staff as decision-making swung away from operational problems to arguments over the Defence programmes . |
| 5 | President Bush has made a major concession to industry over the implementation of the new Clean Air Act , overturning a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 6 | In the long term the crowning of Charles by Leo III led to an increasing papal claim to power over the imperial ruler of the West , but short-term benefits to Charles were clear . |
| 7 | Denis Evans , secretary of the WRU , said : ‘ Both men have demonstrated their great commitment to Wales over the last nine months and have shown they have the talent and organisational ability to help generate success for the Welsh team at the highest level . ’ |
| 8 | The Employment Training Programme , set up in 1988 to help the long-term unemployed , gives a low priority to workers over the age of 54 who are regarded as non-mainstream ( indeed those over 60 are not eligible to participate ) , even though it is older workers who are most at risk of experiencing long-term unemployment . |
| 9 | On Nov. 12 Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said to be concerned about alienating international opinion were quoted in Tokyo as saying that they would press the government " to think carefully about our future plans " to transport more plutonium to Japan over the next decade . |
| 10 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 11 | A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years . |
| 12 | In the event , the meeting decreed an adjournment after only 90 minutes ; observers noted that there seemed to be a general desire to paper over the rifts caused by the Gulf war . |
| 13 | The McGimpsey brothers hit the headlines when they took the Irish government to court over the Republic 's constitutional claim to Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | The coupling capacitors are chosen to be of sufficiently large capacitance to present negligible reactance to signals over the operating bandwidth ( frequency range ) of the amplifier . |
| 15 | The Authority allocated £13.75 million pounds to PNP over the four years 1985–9 . |
| 16 | However — with the loss of Jordanian sovereignty — until the United States accepts the Palestinian claim to sovereignty over the occupied territories , Resolution 242 is bound to remain bereft of meaning , since there is no US-recognized state to which the West Bank and Gaza can be returned . |
| 17 | Private home owners in Cleveland have been given leave to take their local authority to court over the contracts . |