Example sentences of "for [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its recent report , it said that the White Paper ’ contains no hint of the Government 's financial strategy for defence over the coming decade . ’ |
| 2 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents . |
| 3 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 4 | It may involve compromises , for instance over the frequency with which comprehensive large-scale mapping data is preserved . |
| 5 | TOUGH new sanctions are being planned by the UN to force Libya to surrender the two men wanted for trial over the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 6 | If he is to persuade his colleagues that he can win for the party , he will need to seize every available chance for exposure over the next two , three , or even four years . |
| 7 | Some 75 per cent of Perkins ' UK production is shipped overseas , and the company has picked up four Queen 's Awards for export over the past few years . |
| 8 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 9 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 10 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 11 | Political conflicts normally took the form of struggles between parties or individuals for influence over the ruler , struggles in which the victor secured the all-important privilege of easy access to him and in which the vanquished were dismissed , disgraced or exiled . |
| 12 | The Foreign Ministers signed a document covering the withdrawal of Russian forces from Poland by Nov. 15 , and an agreement binding each side to make no claims for compensation over the stationing of Soviet troops in Poland . |
| 13 | Officers at Darlington Borough Council say the gloves are off in the battle for compensation over the town 's £12m Dolphin Centre sports complex . |
| 14 | Bill 's orders had been for Captive Audience to lead Shine On at racing speed over six furlongs , then for them both to stride out for home over the last two furlongs . |
| 15 | Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | There 's been a rise in the number of arrests for drink-driving over the holiday period . |
| 17 | There 's been a rise in the number of arrests for drink-driving over the holiday period . |
| 18 | Krase , who was sacked by the Defence Ministry in 1984 for incompetence over the affair and died in 1988 , had prepared the MAD reports which led the then Defence Minister Manfred Wörner to dismiss Kiessling . |
| 19 | American experience provides grounds for anxiety over the welfare of old people in an inadequately monitored private sector . |
| 20 | A further important issue concerning the relationship between the State scheme , contracted-out final salary schemes and , increasingly , personal pensions , is the terms for contracting-out over the period 1993 to 1998 . |
| 21 | At the Strasbourg meeting of signatories of the Berne wild life convention , Britain was singled out for criticism over the Canford Heath development . |
| 22 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 23 | It superseded the very successful Coalville open days which have raised thousands of pounds for charity over the last nine years . |
| 24 | There was a case recently in Anglia er Anglia Water Cambridge Water Company sued a leather works for solvent over the years , to pollute the aquifer . |
| 25 | This is clearly a step forward for durability over the single density EVA or other Saucony models , which , although softer and more responsive that PU , can compress after heavy mileage . |
| 26 | There is room for argument over the degree of monopolistic competition which is acceptable , but there is no serious challenge to the view that a substantial measure of concentration is a necessary feature of large areas of industry mainly because of the needs of technology and marketing . |
| 27 | But though there is plenty of scope for debate over the details , such as whether God should appear in the preamble , there is consensus on many bigger points . |
| 28 | Although on several previous occasions Mrs Whitehouse had felt that either the response , or the public face that the Church presented was unsatisfactory — for example over the Honest to God debate — this case , with the vociferous support for Gay News , made her feel particularly vulnerable . |
| 29 | The struggle for control over the Baltic republics is rapidly being overtaken by a bigger struggle for power in the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | The danger of contamination through the use of shared bar soap , the need for improved skin care , when washing is frequent , and the requirement for control over the bacterial skin flora has led to the development of a range of more sophisticated products . |