Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led St Colman 's College to victory over old adversaries St Pat 's , Maghera in the MacRory Cup final with a marvellous individual performance that saw him become the first winner of the Iggy Jones Memorial Trophy . |
| 2 | Ray Plummer , Cornwall 's treasurer , had expressed fears that ticket sales would be lower than last year , when about 40,000 Cornishmen swelled the attendance to 56,000 , cheering their side to victory over Yorkshire . |
| 3 | He led his side to victory over Prescot in the FA Vase last week , and was happy to give credit where it was due . |
| 4 | After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier . |
| 5 | The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year . |
| 6 | By contrast both productive opportunities yield positive NPVs ; that is , they provide a return to investors over and above that offered by the capital market . |
| 7 | Mr Sugar 's other main company interest , Tottenham Hotspur , was in demand as it climbed 14p to 103p over speculation that chief executive Terry Venables might buy Mr Sugar 's stake in the club . |
| 8 | What it does n't currently offer is Unix SVR4 compatibility , and Solbourne commits only to a gradual migration to Solaris over a two year period . |
| 9 | A team of six inspectors compiled the reports from visits to homes over last three months , and from almost a thousand questionnaires . |
| 10 | LAW SOCIETY TAKES LORD CHANCELLOR TO COURT OVER LEGAL AID CUTS |
| 11 | Groom 's parents take the bride 's parents to court over wedding bill |
| 12 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 13 | And they have led the Liverpool League 's first team to victories over Blackburn ( 9-2 ) and Southport II ( 6-5 ) in the Lancashire League . |
| 14 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 15 | Clubbe 's 18-year-old son , Charles Junior , is a highly promising batsman and last Sunday he hit a brilliant 123 his maiden century to steer Flintshire Colts to victory over Caernarvonshire in the North Wales County championship . |
| 16 | But inexperienced deputy Ian Ironside definitely keeps his place for the trip to Southampton after helping Boro to wins over Manchester City and Leeds United . |
| 17 | Evidence of excessive demand There is some observable good sense in this argument , and it helps to explain why sterling has not hit the fan a lot earlier , during a truly spectacular swing from surplus to deficit over the past two years . |
| 18 | Hogg protests to Iran over Rushdie affair |
| 19 | Odd cod to 10 lb from Hinckley Point to Kilve over low water but mainly small codling and whiting . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If Godard 's post-1968 films deliberately gave primacy to sounds over images , his earlier , less didactic films were themselves critiques of an image-centred politics , and in particular of the very political use of images in advertising . |
| 23 | As early as 1895 he was a regular contributor to the Engineer and Engineering , taking the great engineers of the day to task over technical issues , and he soon became well known . |
| 24 | The Cabinet is split from top to bottom over the Prime Minister 's policy of using Common Market grants for tax cuts instead of for the provision of help to deprived areas . |
| 25 | The overwhelming impression left after the debate is of a Tory Party spilt from top to toe over Europe , and a Prime Minister unable to heal the rift . |
| 26 | The Gospel of the God of Grace from top to ground over you . |
| 27 | The Gospel of the God of Grace from top to ground over you . |
| 28 | So it 's usually made by stoichiometrically adding water to ethylene over an acid catalyst . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The European Commission has , however , threatened to take the UK to court over its failure to observe community rules on drinking water quality . |