Example sentences of "of a [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Littlewoods could be on the verge of a decision over the future of the mail-order operations but making the business an irresistible buy will take a dramatic burst of salesmanship by the Moores family which owns this Liverpool group , and their merchant bankers at Kleinwort Benson . |
| 2 | The Australian & Oversees Telecommunications Corp has come up with a novel scheme to motivate its staff : alongside an immediate pay award of 3% and the prospect of a 5% over the next 18 months the company has promised $340 for each of 70,000 of its workers , the payment of which depends on customers ' rating of the service which they receive ; surveys will determine what proportion of customers are satisfied with billing , connections and fault-finding . |
| 3 | If he did so intend then , in the case of a child over the age of 16 , his interpretation of the law was inconsistent with the express words of section 8(3) of the Act of 1969 . |
| 4 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 5 | A report by the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists ( ICJ ) released on April 28 severely criticized the UK government for denying Hong Kong residents the right of self-determination in the form of a referendum over the terms of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration [ for which see pp. 33656-57 ] . |
| 6 | Does " If it 's raining the balcony is wet " mean , in however large a tolerable sense , something about other conditions-say the absence of a canopy over the balcony and so on ? |
| 7 | Suggest other situations where there is scope for ‘ fiddling ’ based on the superior knowledge of the provider of a service over the customer . |
| 8 | The failure to engage in that kind of self-reflection was part of a self-assurance over the wider common culture . |
| 9 | These are all labelled , not with the usual words , but with symbols , so you have a diagram of a keyboard over the keyboard socket for example . |
| 10 | IN THESE days when money is scarce for most rugby clubs Morley earned themselves £1,500 on the toss of a coin over the weekend . |
| 11 | By 1983 the National Health Service was employing more than 800,000 staff — an increase of a quarter over the total in the early 1970s . |
| 12 | By notice of motion dated 12 April 1991 the plaintiff made application to the county court for committal to prison of the defendants , alleging breach of the injunction by their execution of a charge over the property . |
| 13 | In a typical case in which a husband , seeking a bank advance for his business purposes , is told by his bank manager that security in the form of a charge over the jointly owned matrimonial home must be provided , it would astonish both the husband and the bank manager to be told that the husband had been appointed by the bank as its agent to obtain the wife 's consent to the proposed charge . |
| 14 | The bank wanted security in the form of a charge over the jointly owned matrimonial home . |
| 15 | Strolling down the Strand towards the Savoy for the election-night bash thrown by Conrad Black , right-wing Canadian owner of the two Telegraph s and the Spectator , I meet the dark , unfathomable eyes of a woman over the top of her sleeping bag . |
| 16 | The question placed me in danger of a box over the ear from the broken-nosed physics master who , despite his pugnacious appearance , failed to keep order in any class . |
| 17 | He suggests that this was because of a dispute over the carrying of the Irish tricolour ; the NILP would not march with it and the republicans would not march without it . |
| 18 | Although there are reports of a dispute over the equipping of the signal box . |
| 19 | In the context of a dispute over the future of pits and communities , the main difference is thus likely to be between those areas with good prospects ( because of high productivity capabilities and substantial quantities of accessible , easily-worked coal ) and those with much less secure futures . |
| 20 | Following a visit to Beijing to sign an agreement on Hong Kong 's airport project [ see p. 38340 ] , the UK Prime Minister , John Major , paid a one-day visit to Hong Kong on Sept. 6 during which he promised to intervene personally with Chinese leaders in the event of a dispute over the status of Hong Kong . |
| 21 | The MNR had until this time boycotted the CSC because of a dispute over the provision of accommodation in Maputo for MNR delegates . |
| 22 | It is thought that the presumption contained in subs ( 3 ) in relation to the purchase of land would be applied by analogy in the event of a dispute over the ownership of other assets purchased in similar circumstances . |
| 23 | The employee inventor argued that the sums received by the employer under the 1983 and 1985 contracts should be regarded as benefits deriving from the possession of a patent over the invention . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's been a bit of a crisis over the weekend — some vital supplies have been held up — and , apparently , my presence is urgently required . ’ |
| 25 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 26 | With the world 's transport systems not prepared to align themselves with Athletico training sessions or match kick-offs , Homstat was sometimes absent for weeks on end , giving team talks with the aid of an interpreter over the telephone , or he would be a lone , pathetic figure , sat in the dug-out on a wet Monday morning urging on thin air . |
| 27 | There are some tantalising references to a defence of " fair information on a matter of public interest " , notably in the case of Webb v Times Publishing Co : Donald Hume murdered Stanley Setty , cut up his body and threw it out of an aircraft over the Essex marshes . |