Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to do with short-term planning and public accounting systems , which mean that , although money can in theory be voted for projects over a number of years , in practice , it usually arrives in annual dribs and drabs . |
| 2 | It is worth recalling that in Section 3.3 the analogous question was addressed for transport over a curved surface . |
| 3 | On Dec. 18 Bush confirmed that talks between himself and the Iraqi Foreign Minister , Tariq Aziz , scheduled to be held in Washington between Dec. 20 and Jan. 3 , had been cancelled following disagreements over the precise date of the meeting . |
| 4 | Enrichment of the hydrogen content is accomplished by passing the syn-gas mixed with steam over an iron catalyst , when the mildly exothermic ‘ water gas shift reaction ’ occurs , |
| 5 | The Whig and Tory groupings had come into existence over a particular crisis , and although that crisis was not about just one issue — Exclusion — it was the case that the parties polarised over how they thought the crisis could be resolved . |
| 6 | UK HOTELS have once again come under fire over the amounts they charge for telephone calls . |
| 7 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thousands of pensioners have protested in London over the government 's plans for V A T on domestic fuel . |
| 10 | An amputee , she could not yet accustom herself to what was lost and gone , lost as her parents scattered in fragments over the Nevada desert . |
| 11 | Sir Hugh , in his first major interview for 12 months , said the 15 bombs the IRA has detonated in London over the past few weeks were comparatively minor . |
| 12 | Two Crystal Palace directors have resigned in protest over the ‘ dictatorial policies ’ of chairman Ron Noades . |
| 13 | Neil Owen , who 's councillor for Milton-under-Wychwood , Fifield and Bruern , became an Independent when the eighteen rebels resigned in protest over the Government 's level of Community Charge in west Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | The list of foreign players attracted to Whaddon over the years has been endless . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's part of the pattern , Charles ; society disintegrates before our eyes and we are expected to paper over the cracks . ’ |
| 16 | The sharp decline was blamed on fears over the falling yen and over-valued stock prices on the Tokyo stock exchange . |
| 17 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 18 | Evacuees were dispersed to billets over a wide area : for example , London children were spread from Land 's End to the Wash , under 476 billeting authorities and 73 education authorities . |
| 19 | I 'd be much more impressed by some positive suggestions of what we might do cos I th you know , months ago I was browbeaten outside church over a lot of similar issues and I said then , you know |
| 20 | Critical self-reflection does not have to be confined to self-questioning over the grounds of one 's beliefs and actions . |
| 21 | Also yesterday , a UN spokesman said UN peace-keepers had protested to Yugoslavia over an amphibious exercise by its troops on a Serb-held part of Croatia . |
| 22 | Sales and unit growth of the small scale multi-user systems market is forecast at 6% over the period , with average cost falling from $38,000 to $36,400 in 1997 . |
| 23 | There are an increasing number of surveys which have looked at individuals over a period of time . |
| 24 | The meeting , reportedly called at the instigation of Japan , was dominated by concern over the recent advance of the US dollar which , according to the Financial Times of June 24 , had risen by up to 20 per cent against the German deutschmark and other currencies in recent weeks [ see pp. 37978 ; 38170 ] . |
| 25 | This was the first of many palatial properties occupied by Franco over the next forty years — a tendency which is difficult to reconcile with his hagiographers ' insistence that he was a man of austere tastes and habits . |
| 26 | We agree that in broad terms the mean number of heterosexual partners reported by men must be equal to the mean number reported by women over a specified time interval in a closed population . |
| 27 | Fraction DSC 0.3 containing the bulk of TFIIA activity was further purified by chromatography over a Mono Q FPLC column . |
| 28 | A report on Sept. 20 announced the formation of a right-wing Coalition for the Republic ( KdR ) led by former Prime Minister Jan Olszewski , former Defence Ministers Jan Parys and Romuald Szeremietiew , and former Interior Minister Antoni Macierewicz , members of the previous government which had fallen amid scandal over the exposure of alleged communist collaborators [ see p. 38972 ] . |
| 29 | The annual report of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution has predicted a sharp rise in the number of prosecutions made against polluters over the next year . |
| 30 | But Mr Pannone said that while the Director of Public Prosecutions had decided eventually to prosecute P & O European Ferries and directors and employees over the Herald of Free Enterprise tragedy , he had decided against prosecutions over the King 's Cross fire . |