Example sentences of "[vb pp] with [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enrichment of the hydrogen content is accomplished by passing the syn-gas mixed with steam over an iron catalyst , when the mildly exothermic ‘ water gas shift reaction ’ occurs , |
| 2 | The vote was boycotted by a rival faction led by Kenneth Matiba and Martin Shikuku , who had differed with Odinga over methods of selecting FORD 's presidential candidate [ see p. 39040 ] . |
| 3 | A dying man threatened with eviction over mortgage arrears has said that the worry has made his suffering worse . |
| 4 | Dr Eduardo Umaña Mendoza , law professor and human rights lawyer , has been repeatedly threatened with death over a number of months , apparently as a result of his activities in defence of human rights . |
| 5 | He would appear cold and withdrawn , tormented with guilt over his wife . |
| 6 | The table shows the steady progress we have made with tokamaks over the past quarter of a century . |
| 7 | An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’ |
| 8 | Local shell fishermen have clashed with conservationists over the latter 's appeal for an end to shellfish potting in the waters around Skomer Island 's Marine Nature Reserve , south-west Wales . |
| 9 | Bannen , whom she 'd left in the Operations Room , supposedly wracked with grief over the abrupt crash of the simularity of his son . |
| 10 | It discounted their felt need for individual responsibility and their desire to be entrusted with tasks over which they alone had control . |
| 11 | Negotiations have opened with Southampton over the permanent transfer of Jon Gittens to Ayresome Park . |
| 12 | IXI managing director , Ray Anderson , says his company is girding its loins for the ‘ mother of all battles ’ as it seeks to drive into Sun Microsystems Inc turf armed with X.desktop over OSF/Motif . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's inundated with work over there she 's just done a 13-part sitcom for CBS , for example . ’ |
| 14 | While ditches become filled with silt over time , mounds are gradually flattened by weathering , and if a mound is adjacent to a ditch , this will affect the pattern of silting in the ditch . |
| 15 | Old scores may have been settled with victory over Tipperary , but he 's quick to emphasise that Galway have won nothing yet . |
| 16 | Old scores may have been settled with victory over Tipperary , but he 's quick to emphasise that Galway have won nothing yet . |
| 17 | With tongue in cheek , the writer had suggested that a deal be struck with Britain over the Six Counties in the North . |
| 18 | Considering how closely the band had worked with Charman over the past three years , their method of dismissing him seems to have been unduly formal in the circumstances . |
| 19 | Affording no weight to extra market considerations , whether good or bad , means that individual or income group economic welfare is being identified with command over market goods or services alone . |
| 20 | In March 1990 an agreement was signed with Venezuela over the maritime boundaries between the two nations during a three-day visit by Robinson to Caracas , the Venezuelan capital . |
| 21 | But the writers who use world-system theories in empirical studies of particular countries ' economic history include features that draw it closer to regulationist theory : for example , the uncertainty , problems and changes associated with conflicts over international hegemony are often studied . |
| 22 | He had leapt with ease over the fearsome Becher 's Brook on the second circuit , but he was tiring and had no jockey to keep him going . |
| 23 | Manufacturers , flushed with success over their pink fluffy man campaign , and greedy with the realisation that they can make hill-walkers wear anything as long as it 's described as a technological breakthrough , are sitting in their factories dreaming up new and more ridiculous things to sell us . |
| 24 | That night she was perched on her stool wearing her cape trimmed with marabou over the dress . |
| 25 | In the language of political philosophy , power is deemed to be a concept that is ‘ essentially contested ’ which means that although the concept has featured prominently in political philosophy over the centuries and is now a major concern of organisation theorists we are still left with disputes over its meaning . |
| 26 | The Sunderland manager has lived with speculation over his job since signing a one-year contract at the end of last season . |
| 27 | The cathedral is on Latin cross plan with projecting transepts ; these are square ended with towers over them ( though the upper part of one of these was destroyed in the sixteenth century ) . |
| 28 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 29 | Relations remained strained with Germany over the continuing repercussions of the Rabta chemical factory controversy , but improved with France after the return in March of three Libyan Mirage fighter planes , held in France since 1986 , and the release of three French and Belgian hostages in Beirut by the Libyan-sponsored Fatah Revolutionary Council ( RFC ) . |
| 30 | On the developmental road towards kingdom-states , alliance networks changed with events over time ; the role of exchange in the making and breaking of such alliances can not be ignored and we should be wary of hastening true commercialisation into Anglo-Saxon England too early , even though that was the inevitable result of this society 's structure . |