Example sentences of "to [det] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Helen had gone to some lengths over the picnic ; the recipe book included a relevant section , she discovered . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One can only hope that in their visits to these firms over the last few days , Ray Noorda and Roel Pieper were sufficiently persuasive . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The NILP pledged an extension of the city boundary and the extension of the local government franchise to all citizens over the age of twenty-one , the abolition of the company vote , the realignment of electoral boundaries and the allocation of houses ‘ solely on the basis of need ’ . |
| 11 | His reply to the expected criticism is that ideals must be striven for particularly now since ‘ in a position in which old peoples and old cultures are likely to be supplanted by new — we are in a common danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe ’ . |
| 12 | The competition is open to all readers over the age of 18 in Great Britain , Northern Ireland , Jersey , Guernsey and the Isle of Man , but not Eire . |
| 13 | Travelling to several countries over the last year , has brought it home to me how disastrous are the effects , worldwide , of the virus causing AIDS . |