Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bowed to Scots nationalists over Ravenscraig steelworks and to Welsh nationalists over the Welsh television channel , ‘ Sianel Pedwar ’ or S4C . |
| 2 | In extreme cases , people had gone without fuel for up to eight days over a series of two-week periods . |
| 3 | Geophysical studies tend also to lead to regional syntheses over substantial areas , and their topicality is another facet of their total influence . |
| 4 | We have given asylum to political refugees over many centuries : the Huguenots , the Jews from eastern Europe and Russia at the turn of the century , continental Europeans during the last war — including my father — and many others . |
| 5 | Add to that arguments over which defence budget benefits most from conventional troop reductions , if as seems likely these are agreed in Vienna in the course of 1990 , and we will find ourselves having to bargain over most of the central issues of foreign policy and public expenditure with our West European partners within the same political and institutional framework . |
| 6 | Between November 1981 and November 1983 , encouragement was given to unemployed men over the age of 60 to withdraw from the labour force by offering to pay them the long-term rate of supplementary benefit if they agreed not to register as unemployed . |
| 7 | Access and co–operation to be provided to Mechanical/Electrical Contractors over this period as they carry out final installation and commissioning work . |
| 8 | Helen had gone to some lengths over the picnic ; the recipe book included a relevant section , she discovered . |
| 9 | This principle of self-help , of ‘ harambee ’ when applied at school level , may emphasise local differences , may lead to some difficulties over matters of replacement and repair , but , because it emphasises the community 's participation in the education of its children , must be accounted a social as well as a financial good . |
| 10 | Moneylenders were registered ; subject to some conditions over the way they did business ; they were able to advertise in only a very restricted way ( for example , they were not allowed to mention interest rates or repayment schedules ) ; and courts could re-open their loans , setting new terms , if they charged excessive interest and the original terms were ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ . |
| 11 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 12 | The centre will look after internationalisation of Sun software for the European market and will be staffed by up to 100 employees over time . |
| 13 | The centre will look after internationalisation of software for the European market , though not manufacturing , and will be staffed by up to 100 employees over time . |
| 14 | They may also be due to real differences over time . |
| 15 | The independent Phoenix Cinema in Oxford is set to play to packed houses over the next few weeks with a film that 's bound to be listed among the greatest successes of British Cinema in recent years . |
| 16 | Japanese and Polish scientists have studied samples of cod-liver oil taken from fish and found that levels of DDT had fallen from 25 micrograms per gram in 1974 to 3 micrograms in 1989 , and levels of PCBs had fallen from 18 to 7 micrograms over the same period . |
| 17 | The poll also shows the Tories have cut Labour 's lead from nine to six points over the past month . |
| 18 | In a contrasting approach , a number of writers have introduced the possibility that private agents , such as firms or workers , may bind themselves to fixed prices over periods long enough to permit within-period reaction by policy-makers . |
| 19 | The victory stretched their Group III lead to three points over the Republic of Ireland . |
| 20 | The great strides forward by the manufacturers led to stringent controls over sizes of engine , car etc , which changed regularly . |
| 21 | Accordingly , we would see our modelling approach as an input to corporate debates over resource allocation , not as a provider of prescriptive advice . |
| 22 | The European Commission opened talks with the heads of the national telephone monopolies yesterday about its plans to deregulate telephone service across the Community by 1998 : after the two-day discussions , the Commission will decide whether to formalise proposals calling for and end to national monopolies over all call transmission ; the usual row is expected between free traders like the UK , the Netherlands and Denmark and opponents in France , Belgium and Italy , Reuter reports from Brussels ; France Telecom and Belgacom said the plans were too ambitious , the Dutch and British Telecommunications Plc indicated support ahead of the talks . |
| 23 | This is the most evident from the continuing guidance issued to these industries over many years by the principal government department responsible for financial and related matters , H. M. Treasury . |
| 24 | One can only hope that in their visits to these firms over the last few days , Ray Noorda and Roel Pieper were sufficiently persuasive . |
| 25 | They claimed the Goths who had settled along the Vistula and in the Ukraine as the founders of the Polish state , saying that rule and order had been brought to these lands over the heads of the drunken , idolatrous and stupid Polish peasantry . |
| 26 | The authors ' ability to infer water chemistry quantitatively from sediment diatom assemblages is due to rapid developments over the past 5–10 years . |
| 27 | The proportion of these abortions to older married women is declining : 55 per cent of conceptions to married women over age 35 were aborted in 1975 ; 25 per cent in 1985 . |
| 28 | Substantive matters such as hours of work , overtime and shift working are covered by complex legislation that gives rise to legal battles over interpretation . |
| 29 | If there is a good general historical museum within the region , offering wide ranging collections , then this is a resource that pupils should return to many times over the years , to pursue different enquiries . |
| 30 | Free speech and free political association were to be backed by an extension of the franchise to all adults over the age of 20 , a formal extension of the power of the elected legislature ( the Diet ) and guarantees of judicial independence from both the executive and the Diet . |