Example sentences of "this [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The producer must provide a description , checking that it is accurate ( no identifiable solvent residues ) , prepare a transfer note , ensure that the skip is secure , check that the waste transfer site is appropriately licensed to accept all the wastes in the skip , transfer the waste to the site suitably contained ( in this case by sheeting over the skip ) — and finally retain the transfer document for two years . |
| 2 | TWO women were occupying a building at the doomed Parkside Colliery , St Helens , this afternoon in protest over the closure of the pit . |
| 3 | They spread this reduction in consumption over their lifetime , so that total savings fall initially by sdG ( where ) . |
| 4 | This aircraft suffered seven hits in Vietnam and the owner had researched the aircraft 's complete military history which included a video tape of this aircraft in action over Vietnam . |
| 5 | The easiest way to exercise this type of control over index terms is to list or store the acceptable terms in a vocabulary . |
| 6 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 7 | This desire for control over all aspects of her life is allied to a single-minded approach to her career which dates back long before she became famous . |
| 8 | This excess of price over both marginal revenue and marginal cost is a convenient measure of the firm 's monopoly power . |
| 9 | It hails from a strong mainframe background , which still represents 85% of it sales , though it says it is looking to downsize this commitment to 70% over the next two years . |
| 10 | The project aims to rectify this omission for England over the period 1650-1914 by the construction of national rent index , and then to investigate two further problems : a regional breakdown of the index to see of there was a space-related differentiated land market ; and secondly to focus attention on three periods of outstanding agricultural depression within the long run to see whether there was a time-related differentiation . |
| 11 | In fact , the courts have progressively narrowed this species of manslaughter over the last century or so : there was a time when the mere commission of a tort or civil wrong sufficed as the ‘ unlawful act ’ , and when there was no additional requirement of ‘ dangerousness ’ to be satisfied . |
| 12 | First , the payment of this sum of money over a short period would have a considerable inflationary effect . |
| 13 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 14 | ‘ Political in the sense that if I threw this glass of water over you in an interview , that would be a political act . |
| 15 | This element of control over entry to the trade was crucial to the prospects of artisan unions . |
| 16 | The popular press hailed this triumph of law over anarchic visions of order . |
| 17 | She delights particularly in this dominance of architecture over furnishing , ‘ a piece of space enclosed simply for the sake of beautiful outline ’ , so that the small dining-table appears as ‘ an odd and insignificant accident ’ . |
| 18 | The United States , the United Kingdom , and France were obliged to abstain from the vote on Resolution 731 ( 1992 ) because they are parties to this dispute with Libya over allegations surrounding the Lockerbie and UIA bombings that were the very subject matter of this resolution . |
| 19 | I have experience of this class of case over a period of more than fifty years and it has n't been uncommon in the past even in the days when judges took a more rigorous view than they cline er inclined to do nowadays not to punish er in any with a custodial |