Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travel agents say they 've sold out of foreign holidays as thousands head for the sun over the Easter Bank holiday . |
| 2 | After the ‘ O Group ’ I 'm in the picture for the tasking over the next twenty-four hours . |
| 3 | The plan provides for the construction over the next three years of municipal effluent treatment plants in all towns along the river with a population of over 20,000 , the beginning of construction of such plants for cities of more than 50,000 , and the elimination of industrial sources of pollution . |
| 4 | On Nov. 14 Amato submitted to parliament an ambitious programme of privatization to raise L 27,000,000 million for the Treasury over the next three years , leaving the state with only " significant " minority holdings in many sectors . |
| 5 | More important for the present discussion , however , was the spatial variability in both support for the strike over the full period and the rate of the drift back to work . |
| 6 | Mr Tabiner , 40 , sees the unitary issue as one of the major issues for the council over the next few years . |
| 7 | Brian Roycroft , President of the Association of Directors of Social Services in 1988 , in answer to the question ‘ What is the incidence of child abuse and child sexual abuse ? ’ in his evidence to the Cleveland Inquiry , reported that : He went on to say , however , that his association undertook a survey in July 1987 of 100 local authorities and found an increase in child abuse registrations of 22 per cent for the country over the previous year , with the most significant increases in child sexual abuse . |
| 8 | Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS . |
| 9 | His average speed of 157.62 kph ( 97.96 mph ) was to remain an all-time record for the race over the full course . |
| 10 | Addressing an emergency parliamentary debate in Kiev , President Leonid Kravchuk declared : ‘ Only one state is responsible for the conflict over the Black Sea Fleet ; and it is called Russia . ’ |
| 11 | Birth parents may relinquish their child for adoption at the time of birth or at a subsequent date , possibly having cared for the child over a period of months or years . |
| 12 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 13 | The longest cycle starts with the market analysis aimed at defining customer needs , and ends with the manufacture of a product to meet those needs in a manner calculated to make a profit for the company over the life of the product . |
| 14 | And his librettist , Alessandro Striggio , son of the composer , provided him with many more opportunities than Rinuccini to break up the recitative with musically attractive relief : extended madrigalian choruses and strophic solos such as Orfeo 's lilting ‘ Vi ricordo ’ in Act II ( accompanied only by continuo instruments , but with ritornelli played by five viole da braccio , a contrabass , two harpsichords , and three chitarroni ) , his display piece ‘ Possente spirto ’ in Act III ( accompanied by organo di legno and a chitarrone , but in the four stanzas competing with brilliant concertante parts for two violini , then two cornetti , a double-harp , and finally a string trio ) , and his swinging ‘ Qual honor ’ in Act IV ( varied strophes for the voice over an ostinato bass ) . |
| 15 | Heights for wall cabinets range from 300 mm ( 12 in ) -good for the space over a refrigerator — to 1000mm ( 39in ) . |
| 16 | Taxes and public spending to be set to reach a ‘ savings target ’ for the nation over a period of years . |
| 17 | He stood , at least , for honesty in sexual dealings : hence his preference for the prostitute over the grisette . |
| 18 | and all this , just for the sake over a bit of retaliation ? |
| 19 | It stands on a terrace the top step of which bears an inscription recording a dedication for the victory over the Persians at Marathon in 490 . |
| 20 | I shall want a met forecast for the weather over the whole of Western Europe . |
| 21 | The women centre has served a vital need for the community over the last six or seven years , and if it closes down all that work is basically gone and all the support that we 've build up has gone , because basically there 'll be nowhere that women can go to socialise and to find out what 's going on in Oxford . |
| 22 | She then moved to the Paragon , which she remembers once again for the view over the city and the estuary and for its huge Georgian bathroom which had a balcony . |
| 23 | Third there was some inconsistency ; here the argument curiously was that though there were powers for the control over the demolition of certain buildings there was no overall system . |
| 24 | It is fascinating to see how theory and experiment have vied for the lead over the past 30 years , with first one then the other leading the way . |
| 25 | Although Sacheverell was found guilty , the decision by the House of Lords on 21 March to impose the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching was widely seen as a moral victory for the doctor over the Whigs , and the news was greeted with ( often violent ) celebrations throughout the country . |
| 26 | The problem is that the string jumps out of its nut slot under heavy strumming , because the post on the machinehead is too high to provide a break angle for the string over the nut . |
| 27 | A first tranche of $2,500 million was for the refinancing over the next seven years of Italian state guaranteed credits due between January 1990 and January 1991 . |
| 28 | Make arrangements satisfactory to patients and staff locally for the closure over the next ten years or so of those mental illness hospitals which are not well placed to provide a service reaching out into the community and are already near the end of their useful life . |
| 29 | It would mean someone put the wrong tags on the ankles , possibly during the panic over the fire alarm . ’ |
| 30 | During the war over the Falkland Islands ( Islas Malvinas in Spanish and Ynysoedd Malfin in Welsh ) we too had a ‘ kith and kin ’ situation : rather different and more poignant than the more well-known situation between the English-speakers of London and those of Buenos Aires and Port Stanley . |