Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finance director Keith Todd announced that ICL has gained one point of market share in the UK , in a declining overall market — stealing back a little of the market share that IBM UK has won from ICL over the past 20 years . |
| 2 | Iraqi government sources claimed on July 16 that 1,200 Arab citizens had been deported from Kuwait over the previous 24 hours [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ; 38309 ] . |
| 3 | The great stone Cathedrals of Apulia have suffered from neglect over the centuries of impoverishment since the Norman civilisation crumbled , also from alterations and additions in eighteenth century Baroque work . |
| 4 | The first item on the agenda was a discussion of how much money could be saved from closures over the next year . |
| 5 | In part , the impetus for reform came from concern over the efficiency of the long-established regulatory regimes and , in particular , a belief that many self-regulatory systems may have evolved into restrictive practices dressed up to be in the public interest . |
| 6 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 7 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 8 | This is part of the old corpse road that leads from Keld over the flanks of Kisdon Hill and turns above Thwaite to follow a line above the river , passing by Muker and on to Grinton . |
| 9 | The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy . |
| 10 | Both crises arose from discontent over the financing of the war , but it is perhaps a measure of the king 's failing powers that whereas in 1340–1 the lead in attacking his ministers had been taken by the king himself , the initiative now rested with a group of lay nobles , chief amongst whom , if some of the chroniclers are to be believed , was the young Earl of Pembroke . |
| 11 | Much of the mutual exasperation arose from disagreement over the appropriate routes to similar goals . |
| 12 | The advance will be deducted from royalties over the next 12 years . |
| 13 | He and a friend had fled from Vienna over the border into Czechoslovakia . |
| 14 | Under this system of economic production , even though a merchant class was able to find a niche for itself by providing loans and commodities for kings , princes and noble landowners , this class was largely excluded from control over the state , which was dominated by increasingly absolutist kings and their royal entourage of lords and nobles . |