Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] 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 | Hurd tries to heal split with China over Hong Kong |
| 3 | Primarily used for transmitting data between computers over telephone lines . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Home and Away ( ITV , 1.45pm/6.00pm ) : Fin has pangs of conscience over using the stolen exam papers . |
| 7 | He dismissed suggestions of disarray over the arrangements to supply £500 million worth of programmes for next year 's schedule . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Many well known companies built ships in Leith over the years . |
| 10 | Ensure that the adhesion is successful by using the pipette to pass streams of buffer over the attached cells . |
| 11 | They were aimed at the sky , poised ready to bounce signals off satellites over the rim of the earth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her order of preventive detention caused consternation among lawyers over a possible breach of civil liberties . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She told neighbours by telephone over the weekend that she intended to stay in Spain until the end of this month . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | UNION chiefs are seeking talks with management over redundancies at Mill Road Maternity Hospital . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But it must have been based upon replicating entities with power over their own future . |
| 23 | The Labour Party Conference : Trade unions face cut in power over making of policy |
| 24 | The auditors do try to avoid entanglement with arguments over local policy ; nevertheless they are permanent watchdogs with powers of scrutiny and criticism . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | TWO screaming children threw cups of water over their burning father after he set himself on fire . |
| 27 | Mr Sugar 's other main company interest , Tottenham Hotspur , was in demand as it climbed 14p to 103p over speculation that chief executive Terry Venables might buy Mr Sugar 's stake in the club . |
| 28 | So it 's usually made by stoichiometrically adding water to ethylene over an acid catalyst . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Will the Treasury provide guarantees of losses over the life of a franchise on , for example , rural or commuter routes ? |