Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group plans to invest $150m over the period of the programme . |
| 2 | The group plans to invest $150m over the period of the programme . |
| 3 | Put out the eyes ( 14 ) : New English Bible " hoodwink " gives the sense Our equivalent of the Hebrew idiom is " to pull wool over the eyes " . |
| 4 | If we 're finally able to exclude Burrows from this tangle , and all my instincts tell me he 's not involved , then we shall have to start looking for a compelling reason for one of those people to smash Wetherby over the head with a statuette . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We have enough men for what is needed down there , but not enough to stand guard over the longhouses ; not until after the tide . |
| 6 | In this way , the firm 's managers were able to obtain influence over the banks , not only in Bihać but also in Sarajevo . |
| 7 | How do you prepare a solid floor to accept vinyl over the top ? |
| 8 | In taking steps to tighten control over the peasantry and the zemstvos , the government saw itself consolidating the alliance between State and nobility . |
| 9 | This led to involvement in a wide range of speculative projects throughout Europe , North America , and the West Indies , and the huge resources at his disposal enabled him to embark on a vigorous attempt to secure control over the affairs of the East India Company . |
| 10 | During the duty period the solicitor has to be available all the time to provide advice over the telephone or at the police station , and receives a standby payment , up to half of which is deducted if advice is provided up to that level of work . |
| 11 | In both the serial and parallel interface some extra wires are needed to provide control over the sending of the information . |
| 12 | This broader definition of community empowerment has been referred to as communities having equity and capacity to solve problems ( Naparstek et al , 1982 ) ; having abilities to identify their own problems and solutions ( Braithwaite and Lythcott , 1989 ) ; having increased participation in community activities ( Chavis and Wandersman , 1990 ) ; and enabling individuals and communities to increase control over the determinants of health ( Health Promotion , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | They were also able to establish control over the Social Accounting Service , which is the official body through which all enterprises have to make their bank payments , and which has the specific responsibility of checking on the validity of bills of exchange . |
| 14 | The Comintern worked predictably but with difficulty to establish control over the recalcitrant comrades in both factions but was faced with firm opposition from those who did not wish to see Korean communism become a minor branch of the world communist movement directed by Moscow . |
| 15 | In line with this , the archbishop gave his willing support to direct royal taxation of the clergy in order to defray the costs of the conquest of Wales ; he was also aware that such a conquest would enable him to establish control over the wayward Welsh church and bring it into line with the rest of post-Lateran Christendom . |
| 16 | A new Bosch K-Motronic fuel injection and engine management system provides greater efficiency and the Continental 's less restricted engine bay allows a cleaner-breathing inlet system to increase power over the mighty 333bhp of the Turbo R , though by what margin Rolls-Royce is unwilling to disclose . |
| 17 | It was then that France , after two centuries of increasing penetration by its missionaries and traders , decided to establish dominion over the Annamese lands and the separate kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia by force of arms and set up the French Indochinese Union . |
| 18 | The system was designed to prevent plagiarism , and to establish copyright over the thesis contents . |
| 19 | While these two strata took different paths , one working from within the tsarist regime and the other confronting it , their aim was the same : both sought forceful economic modernization of backward Russia , and both aspired to monopolize power over the distribution of wealth in the new society . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's hilly and covered in forest , and the going wo n't be easy , but not nearly as difficult as if we tried to go south over the mountains . |
| 21 | In Tbilisi , the police had to mount guard over the city 's Lenin statue to prevent its uprooting . |
| 22 | More could have been done to allay Japanese fears regarding the survival of the imperial institution in a new constitutional form ; this was not achieved because Truman and his Secretary of State , James F. Byrnes , wished to permit the Japanese no room to cause difficulty over the surrender terms . |
| 23 | The nature of community representation in Pittsburgh has been such that , while obliged to consult groups over the allocation of federally originating money , only one group per neighbourhood was consulted . |
| 24 | When it was shot , the nearest town turned out en masse to welcome the man who had killed it and to pour champagne over the corpse . |
| 25 | But if Kylie and Blamey had started to harbour doubts over the wisdom of their journey , they were instantly dispelled when the men with the Midas touch began work . |
| 26 | It calculated that a typical out-of-work student entitled to housing benefit and income support could have expected to receive £733.80 over the 12-week vacation . |
| 27 | In addition to providing tax incentives to investors , the package required banks and insurance companies to purchase stocks over the next six months , and encouraged pension funds to do likewise . |
| 28 | I wonder if it will pay to feed maggots over the sand to persuade the chub to spend more time there , and then to trot a bunch of maggots to them . |
| 29 | To make a living he had to sell things over the counter-like his brother . ’ |
| 30 | There was little likelihood of Denmark being able to regain control over the Danish populations lost to Germany in 1864 , nor of Sweden regaining Finland , a Russian province , where there were still large numbers of Swedes . |