Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investors were heartened by news that Saudi Arabia has set the second phase of the Al-Yamamah arms deal in train by making a £1½ billion down-payment , ending months of uncertainty over the contract 's future . |
| 2 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
| 3 | Home and Away ( ITV , 1.45pm/6.00pm ) : Fin has pangs of conscience over using the stolen exam papers . |
| 4 | He dismissed suggestions of disarray over the arrangements to supply £500 million worth of programmes for next year 's schedule . |
| 5 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 6 | Ensure that the adhesion is successful by using the pipette to pass streams of buffer over the attached cells . |
| 7 | I will also focus on the strategies feminists have used to resist sexism in language over the last two decades , which are more varied in their aims and effects than the discussion so far might suggest . |
| 8 | We would begin to thread our way up the railway 's magical valley with sonorous rumbling as we negotiated bridge after bridge over the River Onny . |
| 9 | She told neighbours by telephone over the weekend that she intended to stay in Spain until the end of this month . |
| 10 | Although this example relates to what have been termed ‘ imposed ’ areal units , that have no landscape reality ( Unwin 1981 ) , it is increasingly necessary to create aggregations of population over ‘ natural ’ areal units such as a soil association or outcrop of a particular rock type . |
| 11 | The report calls on boards to ‘ give precedence to substance over form' , in applying and interpreting the code , but it is doubtful whether companies realise that this could be the last chance for self-regulation . |
| 12 | UNION chiefs are seeking talks with management over redundancies at Mill Road Maternity Hospital . |
| 13 | Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence . |
| 14 | But it must have been based upon replicating entities with power over their own future . |
| 15 | The Labour Party Conference : Trade unions face cut in power over making of policy |
| 16 | El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 . |
| 17 | TWO screaming children threw cups of water over their burning father after he set himself on fire . |
| 18 | So it 's usually made by stoichiometrically adding water to ethylene over an acid catalyst . |
| 19 | It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth . |
| 20 | The more resourceful tend to escape charges through influence over the police , to escape custodial remand through bail , and to escape conviction through employing good lawyers . |
| 21 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
| 22 | It can be seen that the central position of the MTFS is the ‘ monetarist view ’ of inflation that controlling the rate of growth of the money supply is a necessary and sufficient condition for bringing inflation under control over the medium term , covering a period of 3–4 years . |
| 23 | Although the [ draft ] FRS requires appropriations of profit over and above the dividends payable to be made in some circumstances in respect of non-equity shares it does not affect the total amount of distributable profits . |
| 24 | Yesterday 's announcement followed weeks of uncertainty over the future of the plant , which employs 700 people . |
| 25 | So do n't drop lumps of metal over batteries . |
| 26 | In March 1991 the OFT invited people in trouble over credit to send for Credit Wise , a sixteen-page guide telling them where to go for help , what to look for and what to avoid . |
| 27 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 28 | In the 1980s payments of this kind , and for related royalties and patents , have come to equal about 40 per cent of the income in dividends which accrues to foreign investors and they are usually given priority in payment over dividends . |
| 29 | In addition , repeated exposure to violence over time can desensitize or dull a child to the effects of aggression and the signs of pain in others . |
| 30 | The station hit problems with Equity over payments to cast members . |