Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 2 | The directive had subsequently been sharply criticized by the parliamentary ombudsman , and the government eventually rescinded it , but Ninn-Hansen had refused to step down as Speaker over the issue . |
| 3 | There groups of men along with youths over the bar mitzvah age of thirteen would gather at eight o'clock , and to the muttered accompaniment of the special blessings each would kiss his phylacteries , wind one around left arm , palm and second finger , encircle his forehead with the other , and then join in reciting the ritual prayers . |
| 4 | I wo n't be the only person from East Anglian that 's come down to London over the weekend to shop , to stay with relatives or friends and take advantage of London 's shopping . |
| 5 | People want to spend their day forgetting about hard times — even if they pay it off in instalments over the next ten years . |
| 6 | There was a mild stockbuilding boom , probably to make up for dislocations over the winter , and commodity prices took off again . |
| 7 | Both share stakes are expected to be put up for sale over the next few months if the Hafnia merger goes ahead , and could allow a large French company to buy a key stake in the Nordic market . |
| 8 | Although some of this effect was the build up of turf over the years , no doubt this type of architecture was made necessary by the wild weather experienced on the island . |
| 9 | Then the row blew up with Hungary over the enforced assimilation of ethnic Hungarians , involving plans to raze their villages . |
| 10 | Microelectronic applications to production machinery usually come in the form of control devices ; so , on the factory floor at least , new technology is essentially bound up with control over the pace of production and the quality of output . |
| 11 | Yet some big securities houses are up in arms over the Elwes report . |
| 12 | I do not believe that the people of Scotland are up in arms over the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , North-East ( Mr. Kirkhope ) is , among his many other duties , the Scottish Whip . |
| 13 | Still to come : farmers are up in arms over the Poll Tax on empty farm cottages , and forty thousand pounds from the N H S lottery comes to Oxford . |
| 14 | Which leads a jaded old hack like me to ponder on the disparity in attendees that has crept up on Conference over the years . |
| 15 | Although Fletcher admitted that England have not come up to standard over the last three months , he also believes that a poor itinerary and a lack of turning pitches in English domestic cricket is largely to blame for the string of dismal performances . |
| 16 | Even with a £30,000 loan , a customer could have saved up to £2,600 over the last five years . |
| 17 | But executive vice-president ACL Wieger Koornstra , speaking in Liverpool today , revealed that ACL cargoes handled by the port could increase by up to 4% over the next year . |
| 18 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 19 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 20 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
| 21 | The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has gone up by 25% over the past 150 years . |
| 22 | If one looks across the channel , as some of us have , and sees the way in which the matter is approached there , it is humiliating to consider what has gone on in Britain over the past few years . |
| 23 | Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs . |
| 24 | At the Strasbourg meeting of signatories of the Berne wild life convention , Britain was singled out for criticism over the Canford Heath development . |
| 25 | The ‘ Constantinian revolution ’ was far more than the sudden breaking out of peace over the church and demanded a drastic reconstruction of the framework of experience . |
| 26 | But it is a moot point whether the likely slow pull out of recession over the next few years will produce the desired returns for investors unless the venture capitalists can , as they claim , really add value . |
| 27 | 40 escalators out of service over the 270 stations , but fret not ; it 's estimated that all will have been repaired by 1996 . |
| 28 | There were few potential trouble spots , in which British forces were likely to be involved , that were not reasonably close to the sea ; and naval forces had the advantage of being able to lie out of sight over the horizon during periods of tension . |
| 29 | That dried up river-bed , which was out of sight over the ridge and down a thousand feet of shingle , was rich with palm-trees , and with villages . |
| 30 | We are the descendants of all those generations that emigrated out of Europe over the last three centuries to populate the emptier quarters of the earth . |