Example sentences of "on [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WOMAN law clerk was remanded in custody yesterday at Manchester magistrates ' court , accused of helping two prisoners escape from the court where they were on trial over the Strangeways jail riot . |
| 2 | A total of five extra crew were taken on board over the next three months , including a new master , Edward Barker ; he found a ship 's company of nine men — Robert Gray , the steward , having died a day after Robert Titford . |
| 3 | At a time when Pound was principally a student of Provençal poetry , he appears to have been as good as his word , and to have travelled on foot over the terrain in question . |
| 4 | I refer the Prime Minister to the barrage of criticism from the Select Committee on Defence over the Government 's handling of Army cuts , and its implied call for a defence review . |
| 5 | These restrictions on funding over the decade have begun to put pressure on the relatively well-developed education system . |
| 6 | In the meantime the Government plans to spend £6.3 billion on roads over the next three years , with 40 new schemes starting next year . |
| 7 | There was some opposition in Belgium , focused mainly on worries over the fate of the country 's old and inefficient coal mines . |
| 8 | Mr Lamont tried to blame the crisis on uncertainty over the outcome of the French referendum and the ‘ extraordinary flow of speculative funds in the German mark . ’ |
| 9 | The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions have taken place with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees over the last month . |
| 11 | Which leads a jaded old hack like me to ponder on the disparity in attendees that has crept up on Conference over the years . |
| 12 | As in South Africa itself , the authorities had increased spending on education over the last few years , so that qualified teachers are fairly well paid , and except in the poorest regions , school building stock is in reasonable repair . |
| 13 | Based on inflation over the same period , my £10 is now worth only Pounds 6.50 . |
| 14 | British Rail will meet RMT union leaders today to try to head off the planned stoppage on April 2 — the same day as miners are on strike over the coal crisis . |
| 15 | The sharp decline was blamed on fears over the falling yen and over-valued stock prices on the Tokyo stock exchange . |
| 16 | I put it in the barn in a seed tray with a piece of glass on top over the winter and the whole lot came up . |
| 17 | We started with committee structure those attempts have foundered on intransigence over the whole nature of a review process . |
| 18 | The exhibition also looks at the making and selling of instruments on Merseyside over the past 200 years . |
| 19 | There has been a 30–40 per cent reduction in the amount of fat on pigs over the last 10 years , ’ says Professor James . |
| 20 | The four defendants — Mr Stainforth was found not guilty — were released on bail over the weekend until sentencing on the Monday . |
| 21 | I noticed one of the , the Sunday papers had a little bit of a dig on you on strategy over the weekend . |
| 22 | One of the distractions on offer over the weekend was a ride in a tall person 's car — a 20ft limo belonging to a visiting German tall person — 6ft9in . |
| 23 | A second survey on the German CASE market , in which 151 organisation were polled , showed that those already using CASE had invested DM 800,000 on average so far and plan to spend a further DM 120,000 on average over the next 12 months . |
| 24 | The explanatory power ( coefficient of multiple determination R2 ) of this test was found to be 0.743 on average over the 42 groups . |
| 25 | The brothers found that on average over the six months they had incurred costs for advertising , petrol etc. which amounted to £10 for each bed sold . |
| 26 | Despite the huge amount of interest received ( nearly $9 billion a year ) , there was on average over the period hardly any current account surplus . |
| 27 | A 20-a-day man or woman has spent from £360 to £713 a year on fags over the past 10 years . |
| 28 | Because of treaty concessions imposed on Egypt over the centuries , the nationals of certain foreign powers had legal privileges . |
| 29 | The diehard Smiths fans who 've been turning their backs on Morrissey over the last couple of years would be wise to give this a spin and do jerky , twisty , dancing type things in their front room . ’ |
| 30 | The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment . |