Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former American ambassador to Yugoslavia , Warren Zimmerman , confirmed the US had made its position clear to Serbia over broadening the war from Bosnia . |
| 2 | There is also the great puzzle , which is central to arguments over media power and accountability , about the direction of influence . |
| 3 | Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time . |
| 4 | An important function of assessment is that it can help determine the extent to which a child 's language is subject to changes over time . |
| 5 | We can then see that any person 's inclination to acknowledge obligations and responsibilities to specific relatives is subject to change over time in ways which are patterned and predictable , at least in part . |
| 6 | Finally , it is emphasised that conditions in the eurobond market are subject to change over time , secularly as well as cyclically . |
| 7 | Some values , attitudes and emotions have been subject to modification over time , but the essential orientations outlined above have not been discarded . |
| 8 | Got Ohm 's Law , current is equal to voltage over resistance , well we have n't changed voltage , we 've kept that fixed . |
| 9 | The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor . |
| 10 | I 'm married to Moira over there . |
| 11 | Diplomatic relations between the two nations were resumed in 1955 , but a peace treaty has yet to be signed , largely due to disagreements over possession of certain of the Kurile Islands taken by the Soviet Union at the end of the war . |
| 12 | However , Reichel himself claimed that he did not know the true reason for his dismissal , saying that he thought it might be due to disagreements over scientific policy . |
| 13 | The year 1988 was another difficult one for OPEC , not only due to problems over quotas but also because of signs of a possible sequel to 1986 . |
| 14 | In fact the Champenois are now moving away from the use of boues in favour of cendres-noires , but apparently this is not due to concern over the cadmium problem , it is because the boues is now more expensive than mining lignite deposits , due to the high price being paid by refuse-fuelled energy plants . |
| 15 | Tessa , eight , was due to hand over the flowers when Di arrived at the Freshfield drug counselling service in Truro , Cornwall . |
| 16 | The landmark was closed more than ten years ago due to worries over its safety . |
| 17 | Because the ability of breastfeeding to sustain the period of infecundity due to amenorrhoea over long periods depends , inter alia , upon the frequency and intensity of suckling , and in the light of the generalized view that lengthy spacing is essential to child survival , in most African and some other societies , breastfeeding is reinforced by abstinence . |
| 18 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 19 | Since females in these species become available to males over a period of weeks or months , the possibility exists for some males to mate with several females during the course of a breeding season . |
| 20 | The government is making £40 million available to councils over the next three years for the funding of recycling schemes . |
| 21 | In contrast to fifteen years ago , mortgages are commonly available to people over retirement age . |
| 22 | Having just bought Seamus Heaney 's latest book for Christmas , I can at least deny that I myself have been mean to Heaney over the festive season . |
| 23 | I 've been worried to death over you ’ , I says , ‘ wondering where you was ’ . |
| 24 | The world 's equity markets came under renewed pressure at the beginning of 1990 due to in particular to concerns over inflation and higher interest rates . |
| 25 | It was unheard of for Captain and Mrs Burrows to take even half a day off during their ministry , but there were times when the older children were close to tears over their exercise books . |
| 26 | Sources believe Microsoft Corp may be preparing to take Sun Microsystems Inc to court over WABI , the Windows-on-Solaris software that SunSoft Inc is expected to bundle with x86 , the new Solaris-on-Intel operating system . |
| 27 | Microsoft Corp may be preparing to take Sun Microsystems Inc to court over the WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface that SunSoft Inc is expected to bundle with Solaris x86 , the new Solaris-on-iAPX-86 operating system , sources tell our sister paper Unigram.X . |
| 28 | Ruling out scales designed for use with non-elderly people , for inpatient populations , for administration by clinicians , for information gathering from close relatives , and any not previously validated or not sensitive to changes over time , two scales were selected from the Comprehensive Assessment and Referral Examination ( CARE ) Schedule ( Gurland et al , 1977 ) namely the Organic Brain Syndrome ( OBS ) scale and the Depression scale , the former a ten point and the latter a 30 point scale . |
| 29 | If you leave them lying around , then you 're liable to trip over them . |