Example sentences of "in [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun is arisen and is breaking forth in splendour over the Christian Church ( which is founded on a rock ) dispersing the clouds of night and illuminating , with his new-born light the benighted land . |
| 2 | increase in income over the period 1979 to 1988 . |
| 3 | He said there had been a remarkable change in attitudes over the last few years in which those people still in work were determined not to give up their annual break , although they were being forced to cut down on other spending . |
| 4 | And there 'll be playing for civic pride in Hereford over the coming week … more than a thousand sports men and women from Cheltenham , Worcester and Hereford are competing in 21 different sports in the annual ’ Sport for All ’ festival . |
| 5 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 6 | The plan is to sell 20,000 games in Sheffield over the Christmas period that is , 1 in 20 homes . |
| 7 | ‘ The newspaper and television campaign in Germany over the imminent handing over of certain art treasures is gamesmanship to exert pressure on public opinion during the talks . |
| 8 | Then again , his paternalistic leadership style , his willingness to bring ex-Nazis into office , his pro-Westernism and his fostering of materialism were to invite widespread criticism in Germany over the following years . |
| 9 | President Bush and Gen Powell insisted that the 12,000 extra troops deployed in Panama over the past 48 hours would be withdrawn ‘ as soon as possible ’ . |
| 10 | That many of today 's church musicians seem to be unfamiliar with developments in hymnody over the last thirty years is noted as significant by the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland . |
| 11 | There were some individual exceptions but the state of the Church of England seems to have changed little in Sussex over the next ninety years . |
| 12 | Walking silently and in stealth over the harsh grass I remembered all the things an English gentlewoman should n't do , and the thing my mother had done . |
| 13 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 14 | The division of labour and social collectivities : changes in progress over the 1960s |
| 15 | I suggested that the latter point could be explained in part by reference to the change in the social composition of the electorate which had been in progress over the '60s . |
| 16 | In continuation of the policy of decentralization in progress over the past few years , Prime Minister Edith Cresson announced on Nov. 7 that the École Nationale d'Administration ( ENA ) , the elite civil service school , was to be transferred from Paris to Strasbourg by 2000 to strengthen links with Europe . |
| 17 | Negotiations were still in progress over the division of the Fleet , with Ukraine , Russia and Georgia all demanding a share . |
| 18 | and there 's a white one coming in look over the end of the jetty there |
| 19 | Railway buffs have watched in horror over the years as the office crumbled into an eyesore . |
| 20 | The Rural Development Commission expects 100,000 job losses in agriculture over the next decade and 50,000 associated redundancies because of CAP reform . |
| 21 | Other points to note from the Grampian survey include the continued strong performance of the Mechanical engineering sector with a 13% rise in exports over the 1989 level . |
| 22 | ‘ One trader has already indicated he has had an increase in takings over the last week . |
| 23 | The effects of this can be seen both in the current major reviews of BBC funding and in discussions over the future of Channel Four . |
| 24 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 25 | The UK ambassador to Iraq , Harold Walker , returned to Baghdad after being withdrawn in March over the Bazoft affair [ see p. 37322 ] . |
| 26 | A report from south Yorkshire shows a decline in seroprevalence over the past 20 years with only 9.0% of women aged 16–40 being seropositive in 1988–90 . |
| 27 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 28 | Baker had previously come under heavy attack in parliament over the escape from Brixton Prison in July of two suspected members of the Irish Republican Army [ see p. 38356 ] , over the introduction of legislation related to dangerous dogs , and over the outbreak of inner-city rioting in August-September [ see p. 38445 ] . |
| 29 | Destinations contains a marked increase in text over the two previous Streamline English coursebooks and some units are of two pages , reflecting students ' developing proficiency in the language . |
| 30 | Jones is in a Merseyside clinic after losing a stone and a half in weight over the last seven days . |