Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [adj] over " in BNC.

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1 We conclude that the build-up of the HNO 3 column in autumn is consistent with N 2 O 5 uptake on background aerosols , and that the loss of HNO 3 over winter is consistent with reactions occurring on polar stratospheric clouds .
2 The Count of Hainault , who was ruler of Holland and Zeeland , had grievances against Edward II over the harassment of Dutch shipping and was willing to help Isabella as a reprisal against England .
3 The Flemish nationalist Volksunie pulled out of the coalition on Sept. 29 over the renewal of export licences for two Walloon arms exporting companies with contracts for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates .
4 There was a confrontation on Oct. 24 over the Azerbaijani authorities ' decision to appoint Siavush Mustafayev as the new Interior Minister of the autonomous republic of Nakhichevan .
5 The LTTE said it was responsible for shooting down a military aircraft on July 5 over Elephant Pass , at the entry to the Jaffna peninsula , killing all 19 people aboard .
6 increasing the proportion of Stage II over which classification is calculated ( 18/20 for BA/BSc from 18/24 ) ;
7 To the lay reader the revelation of Clark 's memoirs is the complete self-assurance with which the effective influence of No. 10 over what does and does not appear in the national media is assumed , whatever slips may occur between cup and lip .
8 Who can fail to be amazed that so few men ( and virtually unknown men too ) , could carry such a huge quantity of jewels unharmed over so great a distance ?
9 One MP was sued for alleged libel in June 1978 over a jibe in the supporters .
10 Officers are visiting 17 New Age Travellers sites with a simple message — stay away from a 5-mile exclusion zone around Castlemorton Common over this Bank Holiday weekend or you 're likely to be arrested .
11 This rise in consumption will create a further increase in income in the next period of £1.2 million over and above the initial increase and this in turn will bring forth more consumption spending .
12 Its overall deficit was not the result of a trade deficit ( merchandise trade showed a surplus of $70 billion over the years 1950–67 ) .
13 The romanticized picture of housewives happy over their labour of love is also challenged by accounts of the higher rates of depression among women with small children who stay at home , by such eagerness to take paid work that they will accept rates of pay and conditions of employment that no man would tolerate , and by accounts of the slow hard slog and monotony of housework .
14 Soviet commentaries pointed out that the foreign ministers of the non-aligned states had expressed their concern during a meeting in February 1981 over the aspirations of NATO to extend its activities outside Europe .
15 Gitobu Imanyara , a civil rights lawyer and editor of the Nairobi Law Monthly , who had been arrested and charged with sedition on March 5 over an article alleging tribal favouritism [ see pp. 38088-89 ] , was again refused bail by the High Court on May 9 .
16 Mr Dewar , Labour spokesman on social security , said at the weekend that Chancellor Norman Lamont 's Budget proposals to increase tax by £17 billion over the next three years would punish the nation — particularly the low paid .
17 BBC chiefs must cut costs by £20 million over the next six months after the discovery of an accounting mix-up .
18 The group elders would normally mediate and settle disputes , but in the open bush conflicts often remained unsolved with feelings of revenge simmering over extended periods .
19 The theory states that if we receive an excess of definitions favourable over those unfavourable , then we will commit crime .
20 Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis had lodged an official protest with Yeltsin on April 29 over the alleged deployment of new troops in the republic , and had banned unauthorized use of Lithuania 's air space .
21 The Interfax news agency reported demonstrations in St Petersburg on June 22 over access to television broadcasting .
22 On Nov. 3 Michael Heseltine , who had resigned as Secretary of State for Defence in January 1986 over the Westland affair and in particular the anticipated consequences for intra-European co-operation [ see pp. 34192-96 ] , sent an open letter to his Conservative Association chairman containing a severe attack on Thatcher 's policies and style .
23 Hence , the set of critical columns will remain the same throughout a sequence of tableaux optimal over degenerate intervals .
24 When applied to a sequence of tableaux optimal over a degenerate interval , this process can be interpreted as applying the simplex method restricted to the critical columns .
25 The finiteness of the simplex method , established in Chapter 3 , shows that in any sequence of tableaux optimal over degenerate intervals , we must eventually reach a tableau with for all critical columns j , and consequently , at the next iteration , a tableau optimal over a non-degenerate interval .
26 Erhard and Adenauer now clashed on other issues but in an argument in May 1962 over custom duties it was Erhard who won the Bundestags support .
27 In the 1980s , age-specific fertility rates in class I over age 25 were the highest of any group ( figure 4.15 ) .
28 Heseltine had resigned from the Cabinet in January 1986 over the Westland affair and had , since then , assiduously cultivated the party in the constituencies .
29 In this sense , there is a direct parallel to the debate in Chapter 2 over the uneven impact of deindustrialization .
30 President Ion Iliescu expressed concern to the Ukrainian and Russian Presidents on March 19 over the course of events and protested against the actions of Cossack forces .
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