Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] of [noun] 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 | Ensure that the adhesion is successful by using the pipette to pass streams of buffer over the attached cells . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | TWO screaming children threw cups of water over their burning father after he set himself on fire . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Will the Treasury provide guarantees of losses over the life of a franchise on , for example , rural or commuter routes ? |
| 12 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yesterday 's announcement followed weeks of uncertainty over the future of the plant , which employs 700 people . |
| 15 | So do n't drop lumps of metal over batteries . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is not , however , necessary that the defendant should assert rights of ownership over the goods : taking for the purposes of acquiring a lien or of temporary use have been held to be conversion . |
| 18 | In the first case , and so from equation ( 9.14 ) there is a reduction in amplitude given by Since , this in turn implies that The case implies that , and so from equation ( 9.14 ) there is a reduction in amplitude given by which in turn implies that For given reactive impedances Z 1 and Z 2 , inequalities ( 9.18 ) and ( 9.20 ) define ranges of frequency over which the signal is attenuated , there being a phase shift of zero in one range and in the other . |
| 19 | MERCURY LAYS BLANKET OF SILENCE OVER ITS PERSONAL NUMBERING TRIAL |
| 20 | Sprint has also announced demonstration of videoconferencing over the Internet sponsored by the National Science Foundation . |
| 21 | I bloody have done years ago you chuck buckets of water over them . |
| 22 | Chucking buckets of water over them eh ? |
| 23 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 24 | Thus change in household and housing circumstances of people over the 1970s will be analysed by their characteristics at the earlier census to establish which factors are important in this process . |
| 25 | Sources of information may well be : hearsay ( which can be inaccurate ) ; articles in journals ( which are not usually followed up , making analyses of pay over time impossible ) ; and surveys by international management remuneration consultancies ( which can be expensive and often only contain data from their own members ) . |
| 26 | If finalized , the agreement would be the last of four deals designed to end decades of wrangling over the issue of rights to the land above the 60th parallel and to the oil and gas contained therein . |
| 27 | It follows years of wrangling over a controversial by-pass . |
| 28 | Waiters scurry to and from their cafes and tavernas , weighed down by great trays of food and drink , tripping over cats and noisily claiming right of way over passing cars . |
| 29 | The Argentinian Foreign Minister said that his country did not require guarantees of sovereignty over the Falklands as long as they remained in Argentinian possession , and strikes broke out in hospitals . |
| 30 | 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 . |