Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between November 1981 and November 1983 , encouragement was given to unemployed men over the age of 60 to withdraw from the labour force by offering to pay them the long-term rate of supplementary benefit if they agreed not to register as unemployed . |
| 2 | Commenting on Mr Hutchison 's decision Professor Raymond Miquel the Council Chairman said they would be sorry to see him go and paid tribute to the contribution he had made to Scottish sport over the past 26 years . |
| 3 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 4 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 5 | The total amount of Government grant that has been made available to British Coal over the past five financial years is £8.5 billion . |
| 6 | Smith , 28 , was chosen for his contribution to English cricket over the last 12 months , his batting and ‘ outstanding fielding ’ , both close to the wicket and in the deep , and his performance in last summer 's West Indies Test series , which included two centuries . |
| 7 | Hampshire batsman Robin Smith received some consolation for missing the World Cup final , in the shape of a £500 cheque from Test sponsors Cornhill as England 's Player of the Year for his ‘ major contribution to English cricket over the last 12 months ’ . |
| 8 | The death of William , Duke of Gloucester ( 1689–1700 ) , the last surviving child of Queen Anne , led to fresh concern over the succession in Britain . |
| 9 | The independent Phoenix Cinema in Oxford is set to play to packed houses over the next few weeks with a film that 's bound to be listed among the greatest successes of British Cinema in recent years . |
| 10 | The shallows lashed themselves to white foam over the limestone boulders of the valley floor . |
| 11 | It could be due to natural selection over the generations ; or it could be learnt . |
| 12 | The authors ' ability to infer water chemistry quantitatively from sediment diatom assemblages is due to rapid developments over the past 5–10 years . |
| 13 | The publication of the photograph led to increased speculation over the contentious issue of the fate of those 2,273 US servicemen listed as officially missing in action ( MIA ) in the Vietnam war . |
| 14 | We have gone to great effort over the years to make the festival truly regional . |
| 15 | First , dispersal of shareholdings has led to effective control over the company being ceded to management . |
| 16 | GRAHAM TAYLOR 'S future as England manager will be subject to high-level discussion over the next few days . |
| 17 | Attention should also be given to Anglo-American discussions over the importance of the Near and Middle East in the context of a Soviet threat which was believed to extend from Western Europe to Asia Minor . |
| 18 | As part of the technology initiative announced during a stop in California 's Silicon Valley , President Clinton also pledged billions of dollars in additional help to high-tech enterprises over the next four years to encourage new business initiatives . |
| 19 | The particular relationship between the state and the family embodied in the system of public welfare gives rise to considerable concern over the extent to which such provisions boost or erode family autonomy . |
| 20 | The continuing conflict between evangelicals and Roman Catholics at times amounted to undignified scrapping over the souls of the proletariat . |
| 21 | The Iraqi government was adamant , however , that Iraq would not withdraw from this territory unless Iraq 's " historic and legal right " to full sovereignty over the Shatt al-Arab waterway was recognized by Iran [ for legal status of waterway see September 1980 outbreak of Iran-Iraq war p. 31005 ] . |
| 22 | Iranian leaders in early June reacted adversely to a resolution passed at the summit on May 29 , which supported Iraq 's long-standing claim to full sovereignty over the Shatt-al Arab waterway . |
| 23 | Two main competitor plants — Llanwern and Port Talbot in south Wales — are being loaded to full capacity over the Christmas period . |
| 24 | He next became assistant refinery manager and was then promoted to general manager over the head of a friend and colleague who was ten years older . |
| 25 | My people , I must admit I have written to Hot Press over the past few issues but due to the fact that I am concentrating on my forthcoming solo gig in the Attic on George 's Quay on November the 6th at 9 o'clock , ( cover charge £2 ) , be there or be square etc. , the standard of my letter writing has faltered somewhat . |
| 26 | But the meetings and discussions also indicated that the British , after the defeat of the Axis , could find themselves exposed to American pressure over the future of the Empire , Imperial Preference and the Sterling Area . |
| 27 | She bowed to Scots nationalists over Ravenscraig steelworks and to Welsh nationalists over the Welsh television channel , ‘ Sianel Pedwar ’ or S4C . |
| 28 | As China 's reaction to Western sanctions over the events in Tiananmen has shown , further international pressure on the Dalai Lama 's behalf may only reinforce Peking 's siege mentality and strengthen its conviction that the West is conspiring to undermine socialism in China . |
| 29 | There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles . |
| 30 | The relative lack of progress on START and in particular the multilateral CFE negotiations ( being conducted in Vienna within the framework of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe , CSCE — see p. 37335 ) since the Malta summit were widely attributed to Soviet concern over the pace and implications of German unification , and whether a unified Germany could be allowed to be a member of NATO . |