Example sentences of "up [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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1 | Here are the Angerholme Pots , all lined up for inspection over a straight half-mile . |
2 | There was a mild stockbuilding boom , probably to make up for dislocations over the winter , and commodity prices took off again . |
3 | Both share stakes are expected to be put up for sale over the next few months if the Hafnia merger goes ahead , and could allow a large French company to buy a key stake in the Nordic market . |
4 | Eminent and learned the judge may be , but he can not set himself up as God over all football . |
5 | Although some of this effect was the build up of turf over the years , no doubt this type of architecture was made necessary by the wild weather experienced on the island . |
6 | The Beveridge Report advocated the payment of old-age pensions on an actuarial basis , which would have meant the building up of contributions over a twenty-year period . |
7 | Then the row blew up with Hungary over the enforced assimilation of ethnic Hungarians , involving plans to raze their villages . |
8 | Microelectronic applications to production machinery usually come in the form of control devices ; so , on the factory floor at least , new technology is essentially bound up with control over the pace of production and the quality of output . |
9 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
10 | Yet some big securities houses are up in arms over the Elwes report . |
11 | SINGLE travellers would be justified in being up in arms over InterCity Sleeper 's latest ad suggesting that you : ‘ Save money . |
12 | I do not believe that the people of Scotland are up in arms over the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds , North-East ( Mr. Kirkhope ) is , among his many other duties , the Scottish Whip . |
13 | Still to come : farmers are up in arms over the Poll Tax on empty farm cottages , and forty thousand pounds from the N H S lottery comes to Oxford . |
14 | Whatever , if your intestines get tied up in knots over bootlegs , ‘ The Curse ’ could cause terminal internal damage . |
15 | The stardom sort of crept up on Nicholson over a period of weeks . |
16 | Which leads a jaded old hack like me to ponder on the disparity in attendees that has crept up on Conference over the years . |
17 | Although Fletcher admitted that England have not come up to standard over the last three months , he also believes that a poor itinerary and a lack of turning pitches in English domestic cricket is largely to blame for the string of dismal performances . |
18 | Even with a £30,000 loan , a customer could have saved up to £2,600 over the last five years . |
19 | But executive vice-president ACL Wieger Koornstra , speaking in Liverpool today , revealed that ACL cargoes handled by the port could increase by up to 4% over the next year . |
20 | ‘ Before , the tariffs did n't reflect our demand patterns , and the savings averaged have been up to 20% over what they would have been . ’ |
21 | Stratabound pyrite mineralisation occurs in thicknesses up to 200m over a strike length exceeding 50 km . |
22 | When they took into account prices falling by 2 per cent a year the annual advantage of renting added up to £2,288 over buying . |
23 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
24 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
25 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
26 | The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has gone up by 25% over the past 150 years . |