Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the largest exhibits at the Centre and special permission has been sought from the Department of Transport to allow operation over the Trust 's lines . |
| 2 | The singular British anomaly of failure to expand employment over the longer term in the manufacture of new information technology products was , in the view of the geographers Hall and Preston ( 1988 , 220–1 ) , ‘ a consequence of the deteriorating competitive position of British firms , associated with poor innovative performance ’ . |
| 3 | The child who uses goed or comed is guilty of over-generalisation , while in sign the use of repetition to convey occurrence over a long time would be appropriate in WAIT-WAIT-WAIT , meaning ‘ wait for ages ’ but not in KEEP-KEEP-KEEP , where it would probably mean to ‘ keep three ’ things rather than to ‘ keep over time ’ . |
| 4 | Yet many librarians seem content to select from a supplier 's selection , and to surrender professional responsibility for their service to the suppliers , allowing speed and ease of supply to take precedence over comprehensiveness and depth . |
| 5 | The Comintern worked predictably but with difficulty to establish control over the recalcitrant comrades in both factions but was faced with firm opposition from those who did not wish to see Korean communism become a minor branch of the world communist movement directed by Moscow . |
| 6 | The result was that in order to regain control over industrial relations a restructuring and formalisation of ‘ domestic ’ bargaining , especially wage-payment systems , was needed . |
| 7 | Data to address these questions were collected largely by interview , and in order to study changes over time , they were collected at regular intervals . |
| 8 | We can not see that power is a means of dealing with fear , of acting and doing in order to gain control over it ; when we are powerless our fears overwhelm us . |
| 9 | This can be represented schematically as below : The Left government in nation state 2 may be obliged to sever the relations of possession linking the operating units of the multidivisional international firms to their general offices ( indicated by crossed arrows ) in order to gain control over the allocation of resources within the nation state . |
| 10 | The PRO 's attempts to work through DROs in order to gain control over computer records in government may be doomed to failure because of the latters ’ lack of clout and expertise . |
| 11 | Normally , in order to maintain control over the use of subdivisions , each combination of main heading and subdivision must be approved . |