Example sentences of "for [noun] 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 | The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | On April 3 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) approved a standby credit of 236,000,000 special drawing rights ( US$322,000,000 ) for Czechoslovakia over the next 12 months . |
6 | But it was n't all gloom for Cauthen over the week-end and a brilliant ride landed the Irish St Leger on Mashaallah . |
7 | It may involve compromises , for instance over the frequency with which comprehensive large-scale mapping data is preserved . |
8 | TOUGH new sanctions are being planned by the UN to force Libya to surrender the two men wanted for trial over the Lockerbie bombing . |
9 | De Gaulle had made of France 's relations with the United States and the rest of NATO , what Ceauşescu seemed to do for Romania over the next decade within the Warsaw pact . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Holidays can make a big hole in your savings so we offer a 5% discount for clients over the age of 60 on the date of departure . |
13 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Audrey Hamilton , 35 , of Barnett Crescent , Kirkcaldy , and John Watson , of Simpson Court , Crail , each sued Fife Health Board for £20,000 over the death of their son , David , in 1976 . |
16 | Audrey Hamilton , 35 , of Barnett Crescent , Kirkcaldy , and John Watson , of Simpson Court , Crail , each sued Fife Health Board for £20,000 over the death of their son , David , in 1976 . |
17 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 ? |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Officers at Darlington Borough Council say the gloves are off in the battle for compensation over the town 's £12m Dolphin Centre sports complex . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | There 's been a rise in the number of arrests for drink-driving over the holiday period . |
26 | There 's been a rise in the number of arrests for drink-driving over the holiday period . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | American experience provides grounds for anxiety over the welfare of old people in an inadequately monitored private sector . |
29 | The project aims to rectify this omission for England over the period 1650-1914 by the construction of national rent index , and then to investigate two further problems : a regional breakdown of the index to see of there was a space-related differentiated land market ; and secondly to focus attention on three periods of outstanding agricultural depression within the long run to see whether there was a time-related differentiation . |
30 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |