Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Introduction of this new procedure results in there being two procedural options for the Community institutions over matters decided by a qualified majority . |
| 2 | Indeed , the huge capital exports by US business provided a ‘ justification ’ for the United States running a current account surplus and were used as such during the Smithsonian discussions over the size of adjustment of the exchange rate . |
| 3 | These up and down movements as the tip scans over the surface provide topographical information which a computer reassembles into an image of the sample . |
| 4 | The February meeting took place against a background of mounting disagreement between the OPEC members over the need to restrain production , so as to boost world petroleum prices . |
| 5 | In evidence to the Environment Committee in 1986 the following report was given on the record of the Church Commissioners over the previous seventeen years , during which the future of 1,053 redundant churches was decided . |
| 6 | So what was the point of discussing any of the myriad amendments over the past six months if so many of them could be shrugged off as ‘ ineffective ’ ? |
| 7 | In those days it was easy to offend : the establishment liked its Monarch of the Glentype pieces over its Adams fireplaces . |
| 8 | We took about £150m out of the operating companies over a couple of years |
| 9 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
| 10 | This session allows for an in depth examination of the drinking diaries over the last five weeks — identifying the risky circumstances or situations … . |
| 11 | The top of the ladder hooks over the main parapet twenty feet above . |
| 12 | Some , e.g. Krieger ( 1983 ) and Sunley ( 1986 ) , stress the crucial role of work organization , and the butty system in particular , whereas others — Waller ( 1983 ) and Rees ( 1985 , 1986 ) — emphasize the power of the colliery companies over their villages , and their monopoly of local labour markets . |
| 13 | Herbert Tracey reflected that the ‘ defeatist ’ mood of the trade unions over the last few years had been transformed . |
| 14 | The Soviet media linked the concern of the conference delegates over international tension in the ‘ Arab Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula ’ to ostensible American plans to set up a new military alliance in the Red Sea area . |
| 15 | Club captain Gordon Strachan made the feelings of the Leeds players over Lukic plain last night when he said : ‘ He 's so mentally tough it wo n't bother him in the slightest . |
| 16 | In addition , over 60% of the adult residents over the age of 12 years have some formal training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) . |
| 17 | The prospect of amalgamation led to a bitter battle amongst the aircraft contractors over the TSR 2 , in which only the fittest and most ruthless firms survived . |
| 18 | Doreen Wallace , who became Mrs ‘ Roly ’ Rash of Wortham Hall , combined the traditional role of farmer 's wife and mother with an implacable battle against the Church Commissioners over the then current practice of tithes and a successful career as a novelist . |
| 19 | Now , Mr. Donahue is not , repeat not , the kind of guy who 'd meet up with the Fender boffins over a coffee and casually say : ‘ Hey , give it a kinda , uh , cool neck and some real hot pickups and paint it killer pink , and that 'll be just great … ’ |
| 20 | Can we put him with the biscuit cutters over there ? |
| 21 | With the prospect of continuing struggles with the factory workers over the safety conditions in the factory , and with a highly suspicious community monitoring its dumping operations , the company could afford no further mistakes . |
| 22 | A spokesman said UN authorities had lodged a strong protest with the Belgrade authorities over the Yugoslav military war games in mid-March when troops crossed the Danube to land on Croatian territory . |
| 23 | The long , sometimes violent , dispute with the print unions over the relocation of The Times plant at Wapping marked a notable step both in the new financial and technological independence of the press and its ideological separateness from the union-corporate approach of the past . |
| 24 | A major blunder was caused because , while negotiating with the coal miners over their pay demands , a significant error was made in calculating the true level of previous pay awards and various overtime rates . |
| 25 | The most heroic plays were made as we leapt to stop the ball hitting the wooden door to the hall or banging into the metal shutters over the window , which would have brought the guards running in . |
| 26 | Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge , bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs . |
| 27 | In 1915 Universal Broadway Features released Business is Business , in which an egotistical French capitalist rapidly risen from the peasantry rules over his employees with an iron will until his eventual downfall . |
| 28 | Nor do we know what the implications of Sotheby 's withdrawal from the court hearings over the Sevso hoard of silver will be ( see this page ) . |
| 29 | Darkness outside the hut , and beyond that darkness the ring of light from the arc lamps over the fence and the wire . |
| 30 | Here , as in the pollution debates over the hazards of sewage or acidification of lakes , the Commission and its supporters were applying one line of reasoning whereas environmentalists and scientists in other countries were applying another . |