Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report calls on boards to ‘ give precedence to substance over form' , in applying and interpreting the code , but it is doubtful whether companies realise that this could be the last chance for self-regulation . |
| 2 | Will the Treasury provide guarantees of losses over the life of a franchise on , for example , rural or commuter routes ? |
| 3 | So do n't drop lumps of metal over batteries . |
| 4 | It is not , however , necessary that the defendant should assert rights of ownership over the goods : taking for the purposes of acquiring a lien or of temporary use have been held to be conversion . |
| 5 | and they did have bungalows for Rhodesians over here in different parts of England |
| 6 | Firstly because editors and journalists and so forth get an awful lot of them , and do n't have time to pore over them , and secondly because they pick them up , they sort of come in , they look at it and say , ‘ I ca n't see how I can use this . ’ |
| 7 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 8 | The Argentinian Foreign Minister said that his country did not require guarantees of sovereignty over the Falklands as long as they remained in Argentinian possession , and strikes broke out in hospitals . |
| 9 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 10 | Encina already encompasses OSF 's X/Open Co Ltd-endorsed DCE technology — USL will incorporate DCE into Tuxedo over time . |