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 | Geophysical studies tend also to lead to regional syntheses over substantial areas , and their topicality is another facet of their total influence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Access and co–operation to be provided to Mechanical/Electrical Contractors over this period as they carry out final installation and commissioning work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They may also be due to real differences over time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The great strides forward by the manufacturers led to stringent controls over sizes of engine , car etc , which changed regularly . |
| 11 | Accordingly , we would see our modelling approach as an input to corporate debates over resource allocation , not as a provider of prescriptive advice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The authors ' ability to infer water chemistry quantitatively from sediment diatom assemblages is due to rapid developments over the past 5–10 years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Substantive matters such as hours of work , overtime and shift working are covered by complex legislation that gives rise to legal battles over interpretation . |
| 16 | Attention should also be given to Anglo-American discussions over the importance of the Near and Middle East in the context of a Soviet threat which was believed to extend from Western Europe to Asia Minor . |
| 17 | As part of the technology initiative announced during a stop in California 's Silicon Valley , President Clinton also pledged billions of dollars in additional help to high-tech enterprises over the next four years to encourage new business initiatives . |
| 18 | In inflationary times almost every ageing person experiences some anxiety about how their finances will hold out , leading to severe economies over food , fuel , and replacement of clothing and household goods . |
| 19 | At the risk of attracting an angry postbag from irate readers , I have to confess to considerable misgivings over this piece . |
| 20 | This can lead to occasional problems over who has priority . |
| 21 | Johnson & Johnson , used to developing pharmaceuticals over periods of up to 20- years , had the culture to cope with sucralose . |
| 22 | Working with district health authorities they may offer some new solutions to longstanding problems , give greater priority to local need , and enable the development of services with the capacity to respond to changing needs over time . |
| 23 | From measurements of annual ice-layer thickness over the past 15,000 years , the authors find that Greenland 's climate , emerging from the last ice age , twice shifted from glacial to inter-glacial conditions over an astonishingly quick 3–5 years . |
| 24 | This central sensitisation prolongs and increases sensitivity to noxious stimuli over an expanded receptive field ( hyperalgesia ) and results in pain from previously innocuous stimuli ( allodynia ) . |
| 25 | The contract consisted of a set of mutual commitments tied to precise targets over a three-year period . |
| 26 | She bowed to Scots nationalists over Ravenscraig steelworks and to Welsh nationalists over the Welsh television channel , ‘ Sianel Pedwar ’ or S4C . |
| 27 | As China 's reaction to Western sanctions over the events in Tiananmen has shown , further international pressure on the Dalai Lama 's behalf may only reinforce Peking 's siege mentality and strengthen its conviction that the West is conspiring to undermine socialism in China . |
| 28 | Police added : ‘ We are investigating to see if there are any similarities to other attacks over the last few months in other parts of the country . |
| 29 | Nicholson 's fine form since his move to new stables over the summer adds to confidence . |
| 30 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |