Example sentences of "[verb] over [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1870s leaders of the women 's movement , particularly teachers working for the extension of educational opportunities , were caught over support for the repeal campaign . |
| 2 | It leads on to one of the basic processes of geographical inquiry , to study the impact of processes occurring over time on different areas . |
| 3 | For them , and for some neglected novelists , Time would always be a wayward thing , climbing over life like a variegated ivy over some old house . |
| 4 | The CMR further provided that where the vehicle containing the goods is carried over part of the journey by sea , rail , inland waterways or air , and , except in cases of emergency , the goods are not unloaded from the vehicle , the CMR shall nevertheless apply to the whole of the carriage . |
| 5 | Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do . |
| 6 | They have looked at the commission of offences reported over time by a sample of youths in longitudinal surveys . |
| 7 | ( The ‘ new evidence ’ was greeted with derision in some quarters when it became known that the L'Express story had originated over lunch with a senior official from the American Embassy in Paris . |
| 8 | Labour 's Doug Naysmith , Bristol city councillor who presided over privatisation of Bristol port , needs a six per cent swing to wipe out Michael Stern 's 6,952 majority . |
| 9 | Mr Colin Sheaf , Christie 's Chinese porcelain expert and auctioneer , mounted his rostrum against a vast reredos of 1018 blue-and-white bowls and vases — for all the world like a Harrods sale in 1690 , had Harrods then been invented — and presided over mayhem from Lot 1 . |
| 10 | On the other hand , we have been reminded by modern research , notably that of Lily Pincus , that to pass over death in silence and offer no explanation of the disappearance of a well-loved member of the family can cause psychological damage that plagues a child when grown up . |
| 11 | Which include " That any servant who lives over year in the Country till harvest , And shall then remove to any other place out of the Island , And after harvest time returns again Shall upon his return be put in Stocks for four days & nights … " |
| 12 | Ministers attacked over cost of flights |
| 13 | Although levels of anti-HBs decline over time after vaccination , immunity apparently can outlast demonstrable antibody . |
| 14 | Hyacinths can be grown over water in special hyacinth glasses . |
| 15 | Given that public expenditure has grown over time in the UK , how do we compare with other countries ? |
| 16 | Hard luck yarns come crawling out of doorways to tug at his sleeve , tall tales sit slumped over coffee in badly lit diners waiting for him to join them . |
| 17 | and er you know I think coming to a , a university is a thing that you know like it 's a very sort of novel experience for a lot of people and you know certainly when I started the human psych course here , you know about twelve , thirteen years ago erm you know I did n't know what on earth was , was requ required and I agonized over work for quite , quite a long time and er |
| 18 | Not the tiny ones which came packed tight in tins , but a fresh plump eight- or nine-inch variety which were grilled over charcoal in the open air . |
| 19 | AIDS administrators plan crisis meeting over future of AZT |
| 20 | This was said to me , not by me , at a seminar on joint planning the other week and it was said over lunch by the director of another voluntary organisation which shall remain nameless . |
| 21 | Always hitting straight , he started by launching into the left-arm spin of Henry , whom he twice lifted over long-on for six . |
| 22 | Conscious of the increasing demands in terms of time and routine administration , the concept encourages South East Arts towards passing over responsibility for existing South East Arts schemes to stable and well managed clients for their future operation and management within funds agreed between us . |
| 23 | The particular colour which fiction casts over action in this type of story , in rearranging its components , is usually termed ‘ romantic ’ — a word , as I shall try to show , that can be used with many meanings . |
| 24 | The incremental approach has also been known to produce an impressive degree of evolution within a given generation , with each system pushed over time to its workable limits . |
| 25 | The criterion of coverage is likely to prevail over frequency in cases where the purpose of learning is to acquire a minimal productive competence across a limited range of predictable situations . |
| 26 | Although I ca n't see Beryl clambering over scaffolding with a .32 tucked in her pants , she 'd be quite capable of doing it by proxy . |
| 27 | In February 1834 , an American called Benjamin Bonneville penetrated the lower Nez Perce heartland west of the Snake in the continuing battle to win over trade from the British . |
| 28 | Transformation is preferred over transaction by those who believe that participative decision-making is crucial , but most managers — and the Earley and Fletcher-Campbell study underlines this — prefer to operate in both styles according to the nature of the task and the attitudes of those with whom they work . |
| 29 | The fact that these things happen over time in the same place matters , even if this study does not draw on Giddens ' ( 1981 ) notion of structuration to address this sort of question . |
| 30 | it is not easily angered over mud on the floor , |