Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | UK HOTELS have once again come under fire over the amounts they charge for telephone calls . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thousands of pensioners have protested in London over the government 's plans for V A T on domestic fuel . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two Crystal Palace directors have resigned in protest over the ‘ dictatorial policies ’ of chairman Ron Noades . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The list of foreign players attracted to Whaddon over the years has been endless . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's part of the pattern , Charles ; society disintegrates before our eyes and we are expected to paper over the cracks . ’ |
| 12 | The sharp decline was blamed on fears over the falling yen and over-valued stock prices on the Tokyo stock exchange . |
| 13 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 14 | Critical self-reflection does not have to be confined to self-questioning over the grounds of one 's beliefs and actions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The red and white helicopter rattled into sight over the top of the trees and hovered , a noisy gadfly , above the terraces . |
| 22 | He 's announced that an extra seventeen million pounds is to be pumped into care over the next six years . |
| 23 | The table shows the steady progress we have made with tokamaks over the past quarter of a century . |
| 24 | Iraqi government sources claimed on July 16 that 1,200 Arab citizens had been deported from Kuwait over the previous 24 hours [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ; 38309 ] . |
| 25 | The great stone Cathedrals of Apulia have suffered from neglect over the centuries of impoverishment since the Norman civilisation crumbled , also from alterations and additions in eighteenth century Baroque work . |
| 26 | The catheter inserted into the heart is filmed using moving X-ray photography and the images — typically five to ten second loops of motion — are transmitted in bursts over the fibre optic network . |
| 27 | The first item on the agenda was a discussion of how much money could be saved from closures over the next year . |
| 28 | BRITAIN 'S smaller business exporters have grown in confidence over the last three months , with Scotland 's exporting companies , in particular , showing a marked improvement in profitability , according to the results of a survey released yesterday . |
| 29 | ‘ The war that has raged in Bosnia-Herzegovina over the past year has taken a staggering toll : thousands have been killed or imprisoned , thousands more are at risk due to hunger and exposure , and over two million people have been forced from their homes , ’ he said . |
| 30 | He took the principal part in the synthesis and interpretation of all the gravity observations made in India over the period 1908–13 and made an excellent attempt to interpret these data in the light of evidence recently reported by the American geodesist , J. F. Hayford , as a result of similar surveys in the United States . |