Example sentences of "[noun pl] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt the glittering sweep of his blue eyes flame over the creamy translucence of her bare shoulders to the curve of her breasts . |
| 2 | Although China and Japan were the central areas for martial arts development over the last 2,000 years , many other countries in southeast Asia developed indigenous fighting systems , each of which , though perhaps not so well known , has produced great masters and thousand-years old traditions . |
| 3 | This referred to Barvas , and has some bearing upon recent papers regarding the ‘ spread ’ of Petasites hybridus over the machair ( Currie , 1977 , Naylor & Cumming , 1892 ) . |
| 4 | THE GOVERNMENT came under fire last night from opposition MPs and trades unions over the latest Scottish unemployment figures . |
| 5 | The Department of Education has already been severely criticised by both the Audit Office and the Parliamentary Accounts Committee over the overall system which is more than £4,5m over the original estimated budget . |
| 6 | We are extremely critical of the strategy outlined in draft guidance because it seeks to meet a projected near doubling in aggregates consumption over the 20 year period 1991 to 2011 . |
| 7 | We are extremely critical of the strategy outlined in draft guidance because it seeks to meet a projected near doubling in aggregates consumption over the 20 year period 1991 to 2011 . |
| 8 | BCE Inc says it is ready to invest about $1,600m in telecommunications activities over the next five years in Asia , Latin America and Eastern Europe , and is interested in wireline privatisations , investment in wireless cellular licenses and joint ventures in both in different countries in those regions ; it has active negotiations with Mexico , India and Moscow for cellular licence investments , and is Cable & Wireless Plc 's partner in Mercury Communications Ltd ; BCE president L R Wilson also criticised Canada 's ‘ uncertain and confused ’ telecommunications regulatory framework , describing it as BCE 's biggest challenge , and calling for change ; at the annual meeting , he hit out at the policies of the Canadian Radio television & Telecommunications Commission , saying it is too slow in considering new products , services and rates — ‘ To be truly competitive , we need government policy and a regulatory framework which is clear , responsive and internationally relevant , ’ he said . |
| 9 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |
| 10 | The loans will be drawn from the so-called Edinburgh facility , under which the EIB will lend a total of five billion Ecu ( about £408 billion ) to projects such as road , rail , energy and telecommunications networks over the next two years . |
| 11 | They included Lady Mary Bell , of East Rounton ; Mr Tom Haigh , of Stokesley ; Mrs Iris Wilkinson , of Sessay ; Mr Ian Kibble , of the Country Landowners ' Association ; Mr Peter Edmonds , of the National Farmers ' Union , and others who have spearheaded the anti-pylons movement over the last year . |
| 12 | Self taught , Albert , who is a relative of George Barron , of BBC TV 's Beechgrove Garden fame , has been tending the gardens for 16 years and has been a consistent winner in the gardens competition over the years . |
| 13 | Shortly after this point the road becomes little more than a bridle path or cart track which , however , provides an intriguing pass-walk of about 4 hours duration over the Pragel Pass to Richisau 's alpine pasture leading down to the beautiful Klontal valley in the canton of Glarus . |
| 14 | 1 ) establish who is responsible for reinforcing the existing law on sale of tobacco products to children 2 ) increase fines for retailers 3 ) restrict vending machines to over-18s premises 4 ) seek to phase out tobacco-sponsored sports coverage over the next 5 years 5 ) increase the amount spent by the tobacco industry on prevention ( currently 1% ) |
| 15 | When I was out on the road I mean before I came into training I was so I laid my cards at the table at this point in time to say yes I need to sell insurance erm and I always remember particular broker who you go in and and he 's saying well so how many of these particular products would you sell over the next year and he said oh twenty five and you go in great , guy 's promised to sell twenty five domestic contents policies over the next year . |
| 16 | They are also paying top officials 10% over the normal pay scales . |
| 17 | In the quarter to June 30 , Nippon Silicon Graphics Inc increased its revenues 20% over the same quarter last year , to the equivalent of $107.9m . |
| 18 | ‘ Following Lord Keith 's 1983 review , the Government concluded that it would be wrong to give Customs discretion over the level of VAT penalties , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The French action followed the interception by customs officers over the previous weeks of about 20 German lorries carrying dangerous waste . |
| 20 | Their whole day was spent arguing with a customs official over the contents of their truck . |
| 21 | How fares science over the cornflakes ? |
| 22 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ Darlington has lost seven sports grounds over the last 13 years . |
| 24 | To give all subjects roughly the same earnings opportunities over the two repetitions of the experiment , we changed the parameter pairs from the first to the second repetition of follows : Each group consisted of eight subjects : so there were eight who had parameter pair A on their first repetition and parameter pair H on their second ; eight who had parameter pair B on their first repetition and parameter pair G on their second ; and so on . |
| 25 | Then , to the second , the memories cross-hatched over the entrance to her target . |
| 26 | The company 's profits , just over nineteen million , come on the same day that Rover announced a forty nine million pounds loss over the same period . |
| 27 | A religious boycott involving an estimated 50,000 of Burma 's 300,000 monks ended on Oct. 20 , following an apology from the central military commander and the head of the religious affairs department over the shooting of two monks at a demonstration on Aug. 8 in Mandalay , Burma 's second city [ see p. 37655 ] . |
| 28 | Two days later the Employment Secretary will join battle in the Social Affairs Council over the 48-hour week and workless Sunday . |
| 29 | Problems problems over the alloc because the allocation is mainly based on pupil numbers and not on pupil 's needs , by the use of average salaries and not actual salaries , by changes in level of grants for support and training , and the needs of the school and the children . |
| 30 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |