Example sentences of "from [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finance director Keith Todd announced that ICL has gained one point of market share in the UK , in a declining overall market — stealing back a little of the market share that IBM UK has won from ICL over the past 20 years . |
| 2 | Both crises arose from discontent over the financing of the war , but it is perhaps a measure of the king 's failing powers that whereas in 1340–1 the lead in attacking his ministers had been taken by the king himself , the initiative now rested with a group of lay nobles , chief amongst whom , if some of the chroniclers are to be believed , was the young Earl of Pembroke . |
| 3 | The advance will be deducted from royalties over the next 12 years . |
| 4 | The rules against bias work reasonably well apart from confusion over the test for establishing bias , and happily there are few reported cases upon the subject and most of these are not ‘ heinous . ’ |
| 5 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 6 | Iraqi government sources claimed on July 16 that 1,200 Arab citizens had been deported from Kuwait over the previous 24 hours [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ; 38309 ] . |
| 7 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 8 | It must be all or nothing , ’ he declared , appealing to the American people from Korea over the President 's head . |
| 9 | Much of the mutual exasperation arose from disagreement over the appropriate routes to similar goals . |
| 10 | The route crosses through agricultural land minimising land severance where possible , and is carried on embankment from Straiton over the Mineral Railway and Lasswade Road . |
| 11 | The ancient sandstone bridge at Bangor-on-Dee carries one-way traffic from Wrexham over the river and into the village but it has weathered badly in recent years possibly because of attack by acid rain . |
| 12 | Whereas the nineteenth-century state concerned itself with the common affairs of all capital owners , the growth of giant industrial corporations and of large financial combines has now led to the almost complete exclusion of other capitalist fractions from influence over the state . |
| 13 | Hepper Robinson in Middlesbrough is run by two managers , Alan and Stephen Brown , who are due to receive details of the MBO deal from RE over the weekend . |
| 14 | Privately British officials believe Mr Patten will now have to endure a barrage of criticism from China over the next few weeks , following Prime Minister Li Peng 's report to the 8th National Party Congress next Monday at which he is expected to lambast the colonial administration for trying to subvert China with western-style democracy . |
| 15 | It seems the original X Consortium , scheduled to get a new director in January and slowly dissociate itself from MIT over the next year , is n't evolving fast enough into a fleet-footed marketing vehicle or even churning out saleable technology quickly enough to suit everybody . |
| 16 | Written parliamentary replies on Jan. 18 , Feb. 15 and June 28 , 1990 , stated that ( i ) net proceeds from privatization over the seven years from April 1983 amounted to some £26,000 million ; ( ii ) net proceeds from privatization in 1989-90 were most recently estimated at £4,250 million , and ( iii ) approximately 11,000,000 people owned shares . |
| 17 | Under this system of economic production , even though a merchant class was able to find a niche for itself by providing loans and commodities for kings , princes and noble landowners , this class was largely excluded from control over the state , which was dominated by increasingly absolutist kings and their royal entourage of lords and nobles . |
| 18 | Predictions on the basis of the Met Office model suggest that an additional 400 million people would become at risk from hunger over the next 50 years . |
| 19 | The great stone Cathedrals of Apulia have suffered from neglect over the centuries of impoverishment since the Norman civilisation crumbled , also from alterations and additions in eighteenth century Baroque work . |
| 20 | This is part of the old corpse road that leads from Keld over the flanks of Kisdon Hill and turns above Thwaite to follow a line above the river , passing by Muker and on to Grinton . |
| 21 | Mr Justice Latham later told the jury the prosecution had received new evidence from doctors over the weekend which had to be considered and the trial would be delayed . |
| 22 | Black & Decker suggest that the sheath should be filled with a mix of two parts paraffin to one part SAE 20 oil : this will both lubricate the blades and protect them from corrosion over the winter months . |
| 23 | In part , the impetus for reform came from concern over the efficiency of the long-established regulatory regimes and , in particular , a belief that many self-regulatory systems may have evolved into restrictive practices dressed up to be in the public interest . |
| 24 | Quite apart from concern over the traces of solvent often left behind in absolutes , we can not ignore the environmental effects of solvents being discharged into the atmosphere and possibly being absorbed by distillery workers . |
| 25 | Despite assurances from advisers over the confidentiality of information presented in the self-appraisal , it seems that most staff were unwilling to produce anything more than a public type of document , providing little more than factual information . |
| 26 | The branch secretary , Kathleen McAlorum , a Motherwell district councillor , said that an emergency meeting of the branch executive had been called last Sunday after complaints and threats of resignation from members over the deal for representation on the European committee of the regions . |
| 27 | It is interesting to note a shortening of the working distances at the Clyde end of the rampart : the menace from attackers over the Kilpatrick Hills was such that working parties had to keep protectively closer together . |
| 28 | There were 26 thefts from vehicles over the last week including the theft of a bag , cash , ring , jewellery and driving licence . |
| 29 | It follows a very sensible line which makes good use of the existing paths along Dere Street and the Minchmoor , the drove road from Peebles over the Cauldstane Slap to the Lothian plain , the towpaths of the Union and the Forth-Clyde canals , and the Antonine Wall . |
| 30 | The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy . |