Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The authors ' ability to infer water chemistry quantitatively from sediment diatom assemblages is due to rapid developments over the past 5–10 years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She bowed to Scots nationalists over Ravenscraig steelworks and to Welsh nationalists over the Welsh television channel , ‘ Sianel Pedwar ’ or S4C . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Police added : ‘ We are investigating to see if there are any similarities to other attacks over the last few months in other parts of the country . |
| 9 | Nicholson 's fine form since his move to new stables over the summer adds to confidence . |
| 10 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |
| 11 | Lovely walks to excellent views over the Inland Ionian Sea . |