Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thames Water has promised to continue discussions with objectors over the next two to three years before applying for planning permission . |
| 2 | Primarily used for transmitting data between computers over telephone lines . |
| 3 | They were aimed at the sky , poised ready to bounce signals off satellites over the rim of the earth . |
| 4 | Her order of preventive detention caused consternation among lawyers over a possible breach of civil liberties . |
| 5 | But inexperienced deputy Ian Ironside definitely keeps his place for the trip to Southampton after helping Boro to wins over Manchester City and Leeds United . |
| 6 | In the meantime , he appealed to the republics to declare a moratorium " on decisions which give rise to arguments over the issue of competence " , complaining that the alternative was incurable paralysis . |
| 7 | The auditors do try to avoid entanglement with arguments over local policy ; nevertheless they are permanent watchdogs with powers of scrutiny and criticism . |
| 8 | Will the Treasury provide guarantees of losses over the life of a franchise on , for example , rural or commuter routes ? |
| 9 | Figure 3 shows results for P.P. Over the whole velocity range tested , he shows the asymmetry for stimulation of each eye individually , as well as binocularly ; note that this is quite different from the pattern seen in very young normal infants and subjects with defective binocularity , who show no temporal-directed response in either eye but no evident asymmetry in binocular viewing . |
| 10 | When you visit the factory , you will see the different stages of manufacturing , from the mixing of ingredients to the extrusion of the mixture and the lettering in the rock , the preparation of the famous John Bull Fudge and Toffees — made with real cream and butter the old fashioned way to recipes over a 100 years old . |
| 11 | maintaining contact with families over a period of time |
| 12 | Overnight stayers at the Parkside pit camp get priority for drinks over those who have woken at 5am or earlier to register their protest before they carry on to work . |
| 13 | Takes precedence at carcasses over Egyptian Vulture but is dominated by Black Vulture . |
| 14 | Is the vendor giving warranties on matters over which the purchaser has control ( eg collection of debts , realisation of stock ) ? |
| 15 | In total , the group has spent £5.1m on acquisitions over the past six months , although it has retained £3m net cash . |
| 16 | and they did have bungalows for Rhodesians over here in different parts of England |
| 17 | In recent months a good deal of concern has been expressed about students no longer having access to benefits over the summer vacation . |
| 18 | Quit call to officers over coal dust row |
| 19 | Small firms benefited from a reform of the Uniform Business Rate , which effectively freezes increases for firms over the next year , inheritance tax changes and new powers to curb late payment of bills . |
| 20 | Stan was an in-flight engineer on Halifax bombers , taking part in operations over Germany , Italy , and occupied France . |
| 21 | In the 17th Century the most important routes to the north of England took travellers via crossings over the River Trent at Nottingham and Newark . |
| 22 | If Godard 's post-1968 films deliberately gave primacy to sounds over images , his earlier , less didactic films were themselves critiques of an image-centred politics , and in particular of the very political use of images in advertising . |
| 23 | In this context the discursive ( 1 ) gives priority to words over images ; ( 2 ) valuates the formal qualities of cultural objects ; ( 3 ) promulgates a rationalist view of culture ; ( 4 ) attributes crucial importance to the meanings of cultural texts ; ( 5 ) is a sensibility of the ego rather than of the id ; ( 6 ) operates through a distancing of the spectator from the cultural object . |
| 24 | When development is used in the literature on children 's language it usually implies acknowledgement of processes over and above learning ( for example , Piaget 1970 ) and an underlying continuity with respect to earlier-occurring relatively simple abilities and later , more complex abilities . |
| 25 | As well as publicizing the activities of the Library the Friends contribute money towards purchases over and above those which can be made from the College funds . |
| 26 | The MoD plans to spend £700m on simulators over the next 10 years , but the report urged them to study the effectiveness of simulator training , and said some are old and outdated . |
| 27 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |
| 28 | He 's sanctioned a request by Malvern Hills Council to create a 5 mile exclusion zone around the common , banning convoys of travellers over the coming Bank Holiday . |
| 29 | WordPerfect has responded angrily to Microsoft claims that a clear majority of users prefer Word for Windows over WordPerfect . |
| 30 | The Director General at the French Foreign Office , Francois Scheer , held talks with government officials in Tehran on July 9-10 , and said that an agreement was expected within " a couple of weeks " ; he denied reports of disagreements over Iran 's access to uranium supplies and stressed that the difficulties been " technical " . |