Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | An equally serious split occurred in 1926 over the issue of the General Strike . |
| 2 | And of course the harness was what they call a harness , you know your buckles used to that over that and they were on . |
| 3 | If only the English attempt to legislate against slow over rates was backed up with a different small-print . |
| 4 | Business collapses soared to 46,500 over the past nine months — 40 per cent more than in the same period last year . |
| 5 | Fresh wild flowers had been woven through her long blonde hair , with more small blossoms strewn at random over the dress . |
| 6 | Did Louis IX really have a sound title to act as sovereign over them at that time ? |
| 7 | As twenty-three birthdays spread at random over 365 addresses can cause duplication , it is not surprising that no randomizing algorithm can avoid synonyms when packing thousands of records into a set of addresses that is only 10–20 per cent greater than the number of records ! |
| 8 | The Government 's health record provoked one of the largest backbench rebellions during the last session of Parliament , with the Government 's majority cut to eight over eye charges . |
| 9 | A political scandal broke in mid-1991 over allegations that Schlüter had misled the parliament in 1989 , when he had denied that immigration officials had broken the immigration laws by refusing entry to the families of Tamil workers from Sri Lanka who were already resident in the country . |
| 10 | Concern grew in 1990-91 over the numbers of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic arriving in Puerto Rico and the USA . |
| 11 | I was behind a dripping blanket folded in half over the line . |
| 12 | This aspect arose in particular over the setting up of safe havens for the Kurds . |
| 13 | By using examples taken at random over a period of years the following list has been assembled : |
| 14 | This shows that the investment stock remained relatively constant from around 1977 to 1981 , with revaluations summing to zero over the period . |
| 15 | Employment in construction rose by two-thirds over the six years , increasing its share of nonagricultural employment by more than half a million . |
| 16 | Employment in construction fell by 7000 over the period and employment in transport and communications fell by the same amount . |
| 17 | There is a variant of the experiment : Bacteria drop at random over most of the screen , but in one small region ( the Garden of Eden ) they appear much more frequently . |