Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Commission is set to take Britain to the European Court over its failure to carry out environmental impact assessments ( EIA ) on three motorway extension projects . |
| 2 | AIR France has protested to the European Commission over alleged favouritism towards British Airways in recent takeover deals . |
| 3 | Complaints to the European Commission over breach of the EC Bird Directive are also likely . |
| 4 | Environmentalists have reported the government to the European Commission over nine road schemes which have been given approval without an environmental assessment . |
| 5 | Meanwhile their parents — and wives — turn back to the only resource over which they do have some control , and produce more children : hoping against hope that this one might stay and help with the work on the land , or that one might be lucky enough to get an education and a job sufficiently secure and well-paid to bring security for all the family . |
| 6 | The event was sponsored primarily by Lothian Leyland Daf , Leyland Daf and Econ which combined have been supplying vehicles to the Regional Council over many years . |
| 7 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 8 | Where a claimant 's income rises above the ‘ needs allowance ’ , tapers are applied so that , as income rises , the size of benefit falls in direct relation to the excess income over the needs allowance . |
| 9 | His words are as familiar to Soviet schoolchilden as Cromwell 's ‘ In the name of God , go ’ to the Long Parliament over 250 years earlier , is to us . |
| 10 | Although the territory does not have formal political parties , two loose coalitions have evolved in response to the protracted debate over the compact of free association : the Coalition for Open Honest and Just Government opposes the compact , while the Ta Belau Party supports it . |
| 11 | On Dec. 15 the Bissau government sent a protest note to the Senegalese authorities over the violation of its borders , reiterating that it did not provide support to the rebels . |
| 12 | If this is a prelude to the final struggle over reform — even to civil war — then what are the forces on each side ? |
| 13 | Two of the leading churchmen , Bishops Wishart of Glasgow and Fraser of St. Andrews , have once more summoned to Scone the Prelates , Abbots , Priors , Earls , Barons and all good men of the country to renew their fealty to the new queen over the water , the Maid of Norway . |
| 14 | The accents , plus an ability to smell a dodgy London pint of Tetley 's , confirm that , indeed , Bivouac hail from plain old England , as opposed to the New version over the pond . |
| 15 | But the price tags attached to the various deals over the past year have also shown that musicians and copyright have become big business . |
| 16 | In addition , ramps have been added to the existing footbridge over Glasgow Road at Gogarburn Hospital to help those in wheelchairs or with prams to cross this road safely . |
| 17 | Israel protested to the Egyptian government over the incident . |
| 18 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 19 | One is the daughter of Vortai the Black , and there 's bad blood from here to the Eastern Sea over the marriage . |
| 20 | This was the beginning of her determination to learn sign language , which has been more of a boost to the deaf community over the years than any other gesture . |
| 21 | Sex crimes against women have emerged on to the political agenda over the last twenty years . |
| 22 | In response to the recent rows over banks ' charges to small firms , a new company staffed by former bank managers has been established to give advice to small firms on how to deal with their banks . |
| 23 | There was a wide range of dolls , cars , and gadgets which had been donated to the private collection over many years . |
| 24 | Apart from a page 9 reference to hooligans in Neues Deutschland , only the youth paper , Junge Welt , referred to the unprecedented protests over the weekend , which saw tens of thousands of young East Germans on the streets , and an estimated 1,000 still in jail in East Berlin alone . |
| 25 | Having been manually entered into FDC locally , the data is transferred to the head office over the telephone line , via a dedicated BT line and Mercury dial-up lines . |
| 26 | According to the handwritten inscription over the cutting it is from The Times , page three , on June 25th . |
| 27 | Since then broadcasting has gradually opened up to the continuing debate over the place of homosexuality in British society , albeit confining it to a number of fairly distinct genres of drama and factual television . |
| 28 | Strongest connections are with commercial stations but progress has been slowed due to the continuing uncertainty over franchises . |
| 29 | President Clinton has given his staff two months to draw up a balanced solution to the continuing controversy over the logging of the Pacific North-West old-growth forests — fiercely opposed by conservationists , but strongly defended as economically essential by many local people . |
| 30 | From the end of the eighteenth century with the debate on over-population and the hyperbreeding of the poor , sexuality pervades the social consciousness : from the widespread discussions of the birthrate , deathrate , life expectancy and fertility in the statistical forays of the century to the urgent controversies over public health , housing , birth control and prostitution . |