Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 2 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 3 | The directive had subsequently been sharply criticized by the parliamentary ombudsman , and the government eventually rescinded it , but Ninn-Hansen had refused to step down as Speaker over the issue . |
| 4 | He slid inexorably into despair over the Church 's modernisings and his lack of a knighthood , and feared that he was losing his writing power . |
| 5 | There groups of men along with youths over the bar mitzvah age of thirteen would gather at eight o'clock , and to the muttered accompaniment of the special blessings each would kiss his phylacteries , wind one around left arm , palm and second finger , encircle his forehead with the other , and then join in reciting the ritual prayers . |
| 6 | And he says things have changed greatly in Cleveland over the last five years . |
| 7 | I wo n't be the only person from East Anglian that 's come down to London over the weekend to shop , to stay with relatives or friends and take advantage of London 's shopping . |
| 8 | Although pollsters say the race is volatile , not one major national survey now gives the lead to Bush , who enjoyed a record popularity rating after the Gulf War only to watch it drift away amid worries over the weak US economy . |
| 9 | A copy of the booklet has been sent to Dave Hewis , and he 's gone away to pore over the Definitive Map for his area — we 'll let you know how he gets on . |
| 10 | The corrugations of the track were half-filled with grit so that the wheel lost momentum in each hollow and at times I thought of myself as an engine-driver , pushing my train back to the station , always careful not to trip over the sleepers . |
| 11 | After another fond peep at his sleeping face , she crept out of the room , softly closed the door , and gathering up her skirt in order not to trip over the hem on the way down the stairs , swiftly retraced her steps back to the kitchen and Cissie . |
| 12 | Perhaps she was only going to warn her yet again not to trip over the electric cables . |
| 13 | Death becomes the way out of deep hurts , the unexpressed griefs and resentments eating away at self over the years . |
| 14 | The two nations are already at loggerheads over the failure of trade talks between the EC and the Americans . |
| 15 | The new buildings on the Convent site were brought gradually into use over the next five years as the planned refurbishments were completed and the School slowly expanded with each new mixed intake . |
| 16 | People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years . |
| 17 | She was in line as a possible replacement for Gregory , and had actually taken a bass guitar to her parent 's home in Portsmouth over the Christmas holidays to set about learning how to play The Wedding Present 's material . |
| 18 | The sun is arisen and is breaking forth in splendour over the Christian Church ( which is founded on a rock ) dispersing the clouds of night and illuminating , with his new-born light the benighted land . |
| 19 | Negotiations were still in progress over the division of the Fleet , with Ukraine , Russia and Georgia all demanding a share . |
| 20 | The Chadian Foreign Minister Ahmad Soungui said on Oct. 18 that he had had to explain to Libya that the accord was invalid , since the two countries were still in dispute over the Aouzou strip [ see p. 36841 ] . |
| 21 | Although the four former Soviet republics with nuclear weapons — Russia , Ukraine , Byelarus and Kazakhstan — were still in dispute over the fate of the former Soviet nuclear arsenal , they reiterated their intention to dismantle most of these weapons and to concentrate the remainder in Russia . |
| 22 | There was a mild stockbuilding boom , probably to make up for dislocations over the winter , and commodity prices took off again . |
| 23 | Both share stakes are expected to be put up for sale over the next few months if the Hafnia merger goes ahead , and could allow a large French company to buy a key stake in the Nordic market . |
| 24 | Although some of this effect was the build up of turf over the years , no doubt this type of architecture was made necessary by the wild weather experienced on the island . |
| 25 | According to Dr Declan Murphy , project director in Washington , Rome has not forgotten this help and despite a certain weariness engendered by the numerous calls for loans of 1492 material received last year , it cooperated enthusiastically with Washington over the exhibition ( which is to mark the reopening of the Great Hall of the Library of Congress after a three-year renovation ) . |
| 26 | Then the row blew up with Hungary over the enforced assimilation of ethnic Hungarians , involving plans to raze their villages . |
| 27 | Microelectronic applications to production machinery usually come in the form of control devices ; so , on the factory floor at least , new technology is essentially bound up with control over the pace of production and the quality of output . |
| 28 | Yet some big securities houses are up in arms over the Elwes report . |
| 29 | I do not believe that the people of Scotland are up in arms over the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , North-East ( Mr. Kirkhope ) is , among his many other duties , the Scottish Whip . |
| 30 | Still to come : farmers are up in arms over the Poll Tax on empty farm cottages , and forty thousand pounds from the N H S lottery comes to Oxford . |