Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inland changes to sites over the last 1000 years do not seem to have been so drastic . |
| 2 | It hails from a strong mainframe background , which still represents 85% of it sales , though it says it is looking to downsize this commitment to 70% over the next two years . |
| 3 | The former high class hurdler has not come off the bridle to record two effortless chasing victories and , although this is his stiffest task to date over fences , he should have little difficulty in completing the hat-trick . |
| 4 | Yes , you 're , you 're approaching it from er , a similar method to Sue over there , you 're saying how much would I need to , to survive and you 're talking small businessmen really , are n't you ? |
| 5 | The transfer project , conducted between 1953 and 1955 , was designed to establish settlements on the barren islands in order to assist Canadian claims to sovereignty over the region . |
| 6 | And the third factor was the splintering of the collective voice of the Chiefs of Staff as decision-making swung away from operational problems to arguments over the Defence programmes . |
| 7 | The singer Elton John has taken a national newspaper to court over an article last December which claimed he was hooked on a bizarre diet which meant he spat out food without swallowing . |
| 8 | President Bush has made a major concession to industry over the implementation of the new Clean Air Act , overturning a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 9 | The majority of other types of skin cancer are the result of continued exposure to sunlight over a long period of time . |
| 10 | What it does n't currently offer is Unix SVR4 compatibility , and Solbourne commits only to a gradual migration to Solaris over a two year period . |
| 11 | In the long term the crowning of Charles by Leo III led to an increasing papal claim to power over the imperial ruler of the West , but short-term benefits to Charles were clear . |
| 12 | Denis Evans , secretary of the WRU , said : ‘ Both men have demonstrated their great commitment to Wales over the last nine months and have shown they have the talent and organisational ability to help generate success for the Welsh team at the highest level . ’ |
| 13 | The Employment Training Programme , set up in 1988 to help the long-term unemployed , gives a low priority to workers over the age of 54 who are regarded as non-mainstream ( indeed those over 60 are not eligible to participate ) , even though it is older workers who are most at risk of experiencing long-term unemployment . |
| 14 | The draft agreement would guarantee Guatemalan access to the Caribbean and could , if ratified by both sides and confirmed by public referendum , lead to the abandonment of Guatemala 's historic claim to sovereignty over Belize . |
| 15 | On Nov. 12 Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said to be concerned about alienating international opinion were quoted in Tokyo as saying that they would press the government " to think carefully about our future plans " to transport more plutonium to Japan over the next decade . |
| 16 | It is the first to take a European government to court over an ecological issue . |
| 17 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 18 | A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years . |
| 19 | In the event , the meeting decreed an adjournment after only 90 minutes ; observers noted that there seemed to be a general desire to paper over the rifts caused by the Gulf war . |
| 20 | And they have led the Liverpool League 's first team to victories over Blackburn ( 9-2 ) and Southport II ( 6-5 ) in the Lancashire League . |
| 21 | The McGimpsey brothers hit the headlines when they took the Irish government to court over the Republic 's constitutional claim to Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | Texaco , the giant American oil company , is taking the Dutch government to court over its decision to build a conventional coal-fired power plant near to Rotterdam . |
| 23 | The coupling capacitors are chosen to be of sufficiently large capacitance to present negligible reactance to signals over the operating bandwidth ( frequency range ) of the amplifier . |
| 24 | Incidents of this kind were not the only contribution to tension over this period . |
| 25 | The Authority allocated £13.75 million pounds to PNP over the four years 1985–9 . |
| 26 | However — with the loss of Jordanian sovereignty — until the United States accepts the Palestinian claim to sovereignty over the occupied territories , Resolution 242 is bound to remain bereft of meaning , since there is no US-recognized state to which the West Bank and Gaza can be returned . |
| 27 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 28 | Private home owners in Cleveland have been given leave to take their local authority to court over the contracts . |