Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money paid by taxpayers over and above government expenditure merely returns to taxpayers again ( albeit differently distributed ) . |
| 2 | He pointed to Unix International as a forum for limiting the damage caused by arguments over technology , and said that the UI RoadMap of future Unix developments would be broadened to encompass technology from other member companies aside from USL itself : ‘ It 'll help keep them honest ’ . |
| 3 | The existence of internal labour markets is sometimes used to explain labour ‘ hoarding ’ ( the practice of employing more labour than is actually required ) because firms do not wish to break the link between workers and the firm , thereby losing the skills acquired by workers over the years ; and is also put forward as a cause of a reduction in the overall level of competition in the aggregate labour market and , therefore , a possible reason for the inflexibility of wage rates , particularly in the downward direction . |
| 4 | The main objectives of the research are to estimate the total compliance costs of personal income tax and capital gains tax in the UK , ie the costs incurred by taxpayers over and above their tax liability . |
| 5 | This is Throwing Muses ' no fannying-about ROCK album , the band hunched like gargoyles over their instruments , knocking 50 varieties of shit out of them . |
| 6 | There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ . |
| 7 | There was a local tradition that Gloucester and the Stanleys came to blows over the division of authority , and their continuing rivalry may lie behind a royal command in 1476 that the tenants of Congleton should attend ‘ only upon the king 's highness and in his absence upon the lord Stanley ’ . |
| 8 | His fingers on the strings hovered like butterflies over a flowerbed on a day of hot summer . |
| 9 | We had shrimps for tea , watercress , celery stacked in a glass jug , fishpaste sandwiches , flan made from the blackberries hanging in thickets over the back garden fence from the wild common beyond . |
| 10 | The Scottish experience shows the enormous increase in the amounts owed by clients over the three years of the study . |
| 11 | The sailors swarmed like ants over the rigging … she 'd seen them many a time . |