Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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1 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
2 | Chief Judge Platt had already shown signs of distress over the government 's intransigence . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | When you visit the factory , you will see the different stages of manufacturing , from the mixing of ingredients to the extrusion of the mixture and the lettering in the rock , the preparation of the famous John Bull Fudge and Toffees — made with real cream and butter the old fashioned way to recipes over a 100 years old . |
5 | W w why why was it that horses were were given pride of place over the cattle ? |
6 | In March 1991 the OFT invited people in trouble over credit to send for Credit Wise , a sixteen-page guide telling them where to go for help , what to look for and what to avoid . |
7 | In the 1980s payments of this kind , and for related royalties and patents , have come to equal about 40 per cent of the income in dividends which accrues to foreign investors and they are usually given priority in payment over dividends . |
8 | In total , the group has spent £5.1m on acquisitions over the past six months , although it has retained £3m net cash . |
9 | Sprint has also announced demonstration of videoconferencing over the Internet sponsored by the National Science Foundation . |
10 | TWO Irishmen have declared war on Britain over a lump of rock . |
11 | So you 've no A influenced numbers on Style Over Substance , yeah , no ? ’ |
12 | Now the company has 270 staff ( it started out with just 30 three years ago ) , has increased production by 20% over the past year and has a turnover of £l2m ( it expects that to rise to £l4m next year ) . |
13 | Secondly , the minimum was actually interpreted as a maximum , and even then the fact that this was an average wage for each firm left management with control over the way this was distributed among individual employees . |
14 | By looking at events that have taken place in Leicestershire over the past 90 years , this project aims to build up a picture of the long-term changes that have taken place in the levels and patterns of violence in various spheres of social life . |
15 | Mr Fallon , the Schools Minister , hopes he has finally ended months of controversy over Government funding of building work at St Bede 's and St Augustine 's RC primary schools . |
16 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |
17 | The socially sanctioned dominance of male over female has hardly been questioned in Salvadorean society " and domestic violence and sexual assault are largely unrecognized and go unreported : |