Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Suggestions in the bill for an independent panel of experts to be given the power of veto over the research were rejected .
5 He has had the players in stitches over the past few weeks when we have relaxed after our training sessions at Lilleshall by having a game of pool .
6 It is hard not to wonder when , in ignoring the best writing for children , they are denying the existence of the multicultural and non-sexist fiction which has reflected the changes in society over the last 20 years . ’
7 Typically this has meant that economic policy has emphasised the primacy of industry over agriculture , investment over consumption and exports over imports .
8 Although both Beveridge and Bevan had acknowledged the superiority of prevention over cure , the design of the new system ensured that it remained underdeveloped .
9 By the time the gentry had increased the quantity of land over which they exercised direct control ( and improved its average quality ) , most of them were keen to sell off the rest .
10 Several factors have encouraged the fertility of women over age 30 .
11 It had temporarily reasserted the ascendancy of painting over other art forms by overshadowing any advances in literature or music .
12 Two months ago , 18 disillusioned Conservative Councillors left the Party in mid-concern over the combined affects of the Poll Tax and reinforced rise in Council rents .
13 Times were changing ; the popes had abolished the use of chrism in the imperial anointing , had denied the authority of kings over priests ; the time would shortly come when the popes themselves claimed to be vicars of Christ , and interpreted the phrase to mean that in the last analysis all earthly authority was mediated through them , not through kings .
14 All these birds have lost the power of flight over millions of years .
15 As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years .
16 The second technical advance that has improved the performance of tokamaks over the past decade has been in auxiliary heating .
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