Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Averaging delay statistics over the same four equal time periods used in Chapter 2 , Table 3 , provides clear evidence for a reduction in publication delays in recent years . |
| 2 | Averaging delay statistics over the same four equal time periods used in Chapter 2 , Table 3 , provides clear evidence for a reduction in publication delays in recent years . |
| 3 | Dressed down in T-shirt , torn jeans and thermal long johns , Toni keeps disappearing between songs , agitated at one point actually scolding soundman Kevin over the mic . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough 's Impasse Centre is holding crisis meetings over the next few days to try to determine funding to stay open . |
| 5 | Government ministers now boasted of having increased spending on higher education and struck an expansionist note in calling for doubling student numbers over the next twenty-five years . |
| 6 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 7 | Environmental groups are campaigning for more money and importance to be placed on the needs of cyclists , with a target of doubling cycle use over the next five years . |
| 8 | After sowing sieve compost over the tray to cover the seeds ( unless the packet states otherwise ) . |
| 9 | The first , within the Institute of Agricultural History and the Museum of Rural Life , has over 250,000 photographs , and many major collections of documents illustrating farming methods over the centuries , as well as thousands of tools , items of equipment and implements . |
| 10 | By now denying that the arm's-length principle applies to national museums Lord Armstrong makes me wonder how he interpreted his new role when he moved from being Mrs Thatcher 's Cabinet Secretary to being her choice as Chairman of the V & A. If he saw himself as dutifully executing government policy over the V & A 's restructuring it is understandable that he did not subsequently feel constrained to resign , nor to dismiss his director , when it had become clear to the museum 's staff that the essence of the restructuring separation of research from ‘ object-management ’ had been abandoned as unworkable . |
| 11 | The result of a ballot of workers at Birmingham on taking strike action over the crisis will be announced tomorrow . |
| 12 | A bank is taking court action over the former Tory Party chairman 's half a million pound overdraft . |
| 13 | La Compania Aquas de Sabadell SA , Sabadell , Barcelona , and Telecom Valles SA , Terassa , Barcelona , claim to have developed the first system in Europe for reading water meters over the telephone . |
| 14 | Compania de Aguas de Sabadell SA , Cassa , and Telecom Valles SA have spent about $50,000 on developing a system for reading water meters over the telephone . |
| 15 | The new popular press played a crucial role in orchestrating public opinion over the affair . |
| 16 | The rise was principally due to higher prices of imported food processing material , underlining City concern over the inflationary impact of a weakening pound . |
| 17 | However , electtoral support for the ex-communists was perceived as a reaction to falling living standards over the period of the Solidarity-led government . |
| 18 | He confessed that he had ‘ missed playing Test cricket over the past couple of years ’ but had never lost the belief that he would one day play for his country again . |
| 19 | ‘ People have got used to England winning line-out balls over the last few years . |
| 20 | Putting plastic bags over the head is dangerous . |
| 21 | Fresh from the colonies , my first assignment in the province was for ‘ The World at One ’ late in 1968 , around the time they were bolting steel plates over the windows of Broadcasting House in Belfast . |
| 22 | RISCs WITH FASTEST CLOCKS SEEN WINNING PERFORMANCE BATTLE OVER THE SUPERSCALARS |
| 23 | Sometimes an expedition under orders from the Sibirskii prikaz ( Siberian Department ) in Moscow would be the first to penetrate into a region ; at other times hunters and traders would investigate a new river system on their own , later reporting their success to the local military governor ( voevoda ) , who would then penetrate the region asserting government control over the inhabitants . |
| 24 | The western edge of these Atlantic gems are fringed by wonderful , white , shell-sand beaches , backed by flower-bright , green machair plains ; the east coast is rugged and inhospitable , bounding a trackless land , confronting mainland Scotland over the stormy Minch , beyond Cuillin on Skye . |