Example sentences of "to [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He died before he went to trial over the matter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I.M. Pei , designer of the pyramid , also to roof over the courtyards with glass for works from the Tuilerie |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although initially encouraging , the approach proved to be fruitless and both bodies made independent arrangements within separately developed policies which were to lead to disagreement over the Cambridge Board 's RAC scheme for liberal adult education throughout the region , and which is considered in the next section of this chapter . |
| 13 | Critical self-reflection does not have to be confined to self-questioning over the grounds of one 's beliefs and actions . |
| 14 | The Cabinet is split from top to bottom over the Prime Minister 's policy of using Common Market grants for tax cuts instead of for the provision of help to deprived areas . |
| 15 | However — with the loss of Jordanian sovereignty — until the United States accepts the Palestinian claim to sovereignty over the occupied territories , Resolution 242 is bound to remain bereft of meaning , since there is no US-recognized state to which the West Bank and Gaza can be returned . |
| 16 | When Argentina recognises the right to self-determination and freedom of association of the Falklands people , and gives up her claim to sovereignty over the territory , we might be more amenable to trade and contact . |
| 17 | During the course of Edward 's long reign the English crown attained what , according to one historian , amounted to sovereignty over the English church . |
| 18 | However , he confirmed that Argentina 's claim to sovereignty over the Falklands , set to one side during the negotiations , would continue to be pursued in international forums . |
| 19 | Less than a week after achieving full independence on June 19 [ see p. 18159 ] , Kuwait was threatened by a claim to sovereignty over the whole of its territory by the Iraqi leader , Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem . |
| 20 | The transfer project , conducted between 1953 and 1955 , was designed to establish settlements on the barren islands in order to assist Canadian claims to sovereignty over the region . |
| 21 | It concerned Canterbury 's claim to primacy over the whole of the British Isles . |
| 22 | The question which remains to be solved is : were these phrases added to existing documents in 1070–72 to support Lanfranc 's claim to primacy over the whole area of the British Isles , or were they added as a last resort in 1120 , when the claim which Lanfranc , Anselm and Archbishop Ralph had all supported was facing final and irrevocable defeat ? |
| 23 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
| 24 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 25 | He did not expect that he would have to go to war over the Holy Places , but if he was called upon to do so , he thought that he could produce the men , guns and money he would need for victory . |
| 26 | One of the striking things about Havel is his commitment to drama over the past quarter-century and his insistence , in the period immediately before the Czech revolution , that he was first and foremost a writer . |
| 27 | Language , literature , thought , art , politics and society become separate territories and are occupied by separate specialists , until it becomes increasingly hard to find any scholars with pretensions to competence over the whole field : K. O. Müller from Göttingen , active in the 1820 's and thirties , is one notable exception , but there were few to approach his breadth then or subsequently . |
| 28 | Later she sat and watched the golden sky turn to ruby over the roofs , the distant trees of the park blacken and fade . |
| 29 | Walker Greenbank , the wall-covering group , has taken its former auditor , Arthur Young , to court over the firm 's failure to detect an alleged fraud in one of its subsidiaries . |
| 30 | Microsoft Corp may be preparing to take Sun Microsystems Inc to court over the WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface that SunSoft Inc is expected to bundle with Solaris x86 , the new Solaris-on-iAPX-86 operating system , sources tell our sister paper Unigram.X . |