Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 2 | The list of foreign players attracted to Whaddon over the years has been endless . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's part of the pattern , Charles ; society disintegrates before our eyes and we are expected to paper over the cracks . ’ |
| 4 | ( The British land policy in India was to come to grief over this dilemma . ) |
| 5 | Their appellate jurisdiction was also extended , presumably by agreement between the Inns and the judges , to issues relating to disputes over property within the Inns : Rakestraw v. Brewer ( 1728 ) 2 P.Wms. 511 , or over elections in the Inns : Inner Temple v. Ince ( 1677 ) 3 Keble 835 , or over debts due to the Inns : Levinz v. Randolph ( 1700 ) 1 Ld.Raym. 594 , which could not by any stretch of the imagination relate to the duties of judges in relation to the administration of justice in their courts . |
| 6 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 7 | Evacuees were dispersed to billets over a wide area : for example , London children were spread from Land 's End to the Wash , under 476 billeting authorities and 73 education authorities . |
| 8 | Critical self-reflection does not have to be confined to self-questioning over the grounds of one 's beliefs and actions . |
| 9 | On March 3 and 11 the Iraqi government protested to Turkey over " repeated flagrant violations of its sovereignty and territorial integrity by Turkish aircraft " . |
| 10 | Also yesterday , a UN spokesman said UN peace-keepers had protested to Yugoslavia over an amphibious exercise by its troops on a Serb-held part of Croatia . |
| 11 | According to the ADC , in the cases quoted by councils the properties by and large fulfilled all the principal criteria set down by the Government for a property suitable for occupation by older people , ie that it was let to persons over pensionable age ; access was relatively easy ; the accommodation was on level ground ; the dwelling had no more than two bedrooms ; the heating arrangements were adequate ; the property was reasonably conveniently located . |
| 12 | Countries like Britain take that food from where it is needed most to feed to livestock over here . |
| 13 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 14 | Although initially encouraging , the approach proved to be fruitless and both bodies made independent arrangements within separately developed policies which were to lead to disagreement over the Cambridge Board 's RAC scheme for liberal adult education throughout the region , and which is considered in the next section of this chapter . |
| 15 | Existing users will be upgraded to OpenVMS over time . |
| 16 | No er according to Robert over there . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites . |
| 19 | I remember we came to blows over the Queen Mother thing . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Coupled with the exit of some vital players , it was as much as Neath could do to paper over the cracks and keep winning . |
| 22 | The words seemed to trip over each other in her enthusiasm . |
| 23 | The charges related to extra inducements made to players over and above their club wages , an area of football so steeped in secrecy and subterfuge , that the problem is unlikely to go away . |
| 24 | TRANMERE coasted to victory over am outclassed Southend side at Prenton Park . |
| 25 | There are many options open to the tourist — from car hire , coach tours and steamer trips to flights over the glaciers in a seaplane . |
| 26 | Christie complains to Europe over action by GCHQ |
| 27 | The Saudi announcement , attributed to annoyance over the Yemeni government 's stance on the Gulf crisis [ p. 37637 ] , meant that Yemenis would no longer be exempt from the need to obtain visas when entering the country , nor allowed to conduct business without a Saudi sponsor . |
| 28 | ‘ I had considered going to California over the winter but I realised it was n't necessary . |
| 29 | So ehm , so , what she going to work over there then . |
| 30 | Successive governments have refused to implement the recommendation of the Evershed Committee in 1953 that the costs of going to law over issues of general public importance should be paid out of public funds . |