Example sentences of "to [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having fallen back from about 360p to 320p over the last few days , Fisons ' top management was busy round at Hoare Govett yesterday , trying to reassure nervous institutions investors . |
| 2 | Steve Groves for ‘ We shot it yesterday when it was 3 feet higher' ’ Nick Reason for ‘ Dad , I know you 've got to have a head for heights to canoe over a waterfall like that but why 's that man got two heads ? ’ , |
| 3 | Last summer , he and fellow Teesside Polytechnic student Paul Kuiken , 19 , were prevented by police from becoming the first to canoe over the 72-ft High Force waterfall in Teesdale because of fears they would be killed . |
| 4 | He died before he went to trial over the matter . |
| 5 | The Hungarian government has issued a protest to Czechoslovakia over the continued construction work on the Gabcikovo Dam on the Danube — a focus of growing tension between the two countries [ see ED 57 ; passim ] . |
| 6 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 7 | Even with a £30,000 loan , a customer could have saved up to £2,600 over the last five years . |
| 8 | Evidence of excessive demand There is some observable good sense in this argument , and it helps to explain why sterling has not hit the fan a lot earlier , during a truly spectacular swing from surplus to deficit over the past two years . |
| 9 | Britain is protesting to Germany over a planned mission to Baghdad by former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt . |
| 10 | Britain protested to Romania over the violent crackdown on dissent and urged Romanian state employees to overthrow the Communist government for their own safety . |
| 11 | Both sides refused to elaborate on the reasons for Bowman 's departure , but press reports attributed it to disagreements over the pace at which the authority sought to bring water standards up to European Community standards . |
| 12 | Some of the other changes were intended to take account of a number of anomalies that our experience had brought to light over the years since 1969 . |
| 13 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 14 | This is not about democracy , this is dictatorship , your trying to practice over a minority of people in this county . |
| 15 | The coupling capacitors are chosen to be of sufficiently large capacitance to present negligible reactance to signals over the operating bandwidth ( frequency range ) of the amplifier . |
| 16 | I presume you have access to the various briefing papers we have circulated to branches over the last 18 months or so . |
| 17 | All right , let us talk about yesterday if the hon. Gentleman wants — let us talk about giving more than £1 billion to industry over the next two years to ensure that there is no increase in business rates . |
| 18 | President Bush has made a major concession to industry over the implementation of the new Clean Air Act , overturning a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 19 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 20 | When the next Rushdie has his book put to the torch , incitement to violence over a book , whether for or against it , should be treated as a criminal offence . |
| 21 | But to attract the funds needed to capitalize , NoS would have to persuade a merchant bank to sponsor it , which would inevitably lead to confrontation over the Right-On organizational principles on which the project was based . |
| 22 | It expects the 78% share of desktops currently running by MS-DOS to fall to 29% by 1997 , the Apple Macintosh to retain a 10% share over the period , Windows to rise from last year 's 7% to 28% , Unix to grow from 4% to 10% , OS/2 to rise from 1% to 8% and Windows NT to grow from nowhere to 14% over the five years . |
| 23 | ‘ But recent events have led to anxieties over the quality of some of these drugs . ’ |
| 24 | I.M. Pei , designer of the pyramid , also to roof over the courtyards with glass for works from the Tuilerie |
| 25 | In addition to doubts over the ability of the system to survive , there is a noticeable loss of confidence in the basic institutions of the system itself : corporations , trade unions and governments . |
| 26 | For example , what precipitated the movement of labour-intensive manufacturing from North to South over the past three decades , and how exactly has this affected the employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers ? |
| 27 | O-levels began ten days after the half-term weighing session , and if anyone noticed the drop in my weight , I suppose they attributed it to anxiety over the forthcoming examinations . |
| 28 | The two main sets of circumstances to which the Act is normally applied relate first to mental disorder and secondly to self-neglect over a long period . |
| 29 | Inland changes to sites over the last 1000 years do not seem to have been so drastic . |
| 30 | The list of foreign players attracted to Whaddon over the years has been endless . |