Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list of foreign players attracted to Whaddon over the years has been endless . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's part of the pattern , Charles ; society disintegrates before our eyes and we are expected to paper over the cracks . ’ |
| 3 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Critical self-reflection does not have to be confined to self-questioning over the grounds of one 's beliefs and actions . |
| 6 | On March 3 and 11 the Iraqi government protested to Turkey over " repeated flagrant violations of its sovereignty and territorial integrity by Turkish aircraft " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Existing users will be upgraded to OpenVMS over time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Furthermore , minimal communication between the board members and the workers seems to take place , with board members legally bound to secrecy over ‘ sensitive ’ company matters . |
| 13 | The county 's young men are taking the charts by storm as a string of young dance bands from the area have rocketed to stardom over the last 18 months . |
| 14 | Byrne , 31 , whose goals have contributed to victories over Port Vale , Oxford , West Ham and Chelsea along the Wembley road , enjoyed his biggest celebration so far when he stooped to head home from close range at the end of the most incisive move of a tight match . |
| 15 | The post had been vacant since the resignation of Chedli Klibi ( Tunisia ) in September 1990 , when inter-Arab divisions heightened by the Gulf war had contributed to controversy over the timing of the proposed relocation of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis back to Cairo [ see p. 37726 ] . |
| 16 | The 1944 Act was amended so that free milk was provided to pupils over the age of 7 only if they attended special schools or qualified on medical grounds . |
| 17 | Some of the other changes were intended to take account of a number of anomalies that our experience had brought to light over the years since 1969 . |
| 18 | Implicit in the Green Paper is the notion that generic social work principles are not paramount , and that probation courses will be brought to heel over their curriculum and orientation . |
| 19 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |
| 21 | Thus he favoured co-operation with other major industrial states in the hope that sterling might be restored to health over a period of three or four years . |
| 22 | The finance costs of debt should be allocated to periods over the term of the debt at a constant rate on the carrying amount . |
| 23 | This will be allocated to periods over the primary period at a constant rate on the carrying amount , as required by paragraph 25 of the [ draft ] FRS . |
| 24 | Japan 's 4,000km expressway system is to be lengthened to 11,500km over the next ten years . |
| 25 | The following examples , adapted from Firbas ( 1986 : 58 ) illustrate the priority given to context over linear arrangement . |
| 26 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 27 | Iñaki Esnaola , who had publicly referred to differences over ETA tactics , also resigned as a deputy in the regional legislative assembly . |
| 28 | Mean maximal resting anal pressures and maximum squeeze pressures were significantly lower in older people , although the word ‘ older ’ referred to patients over the age of 65 rather than 50 as in this study . |
| 29 | Britain and France had gone to war over Poland when it was invaded by Hitler in 1939 , there were numerous Polish-Americans concerned about its future , and a Polish ‘ government-in-exile ’ already existed in London . |
| 30 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |