Example sentences of "[vb infin] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have always shared a daily newspaper , now 's the time to have one each , to read and discuss over breakfast . |
| 2 | Shake vigorously to mix and pour over salad just before serving . |
| 3 | JS WILL LET CUSTOMERS DECIDE OVER WHALE CULLS PROTEST |
| 4 | While such a set-up would probably be established under the auspices of the Bank of England , the main users in the shape of the institutions envisage that in due course they would take over ownership . |
| 5 | Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over . |
| 6 | The result was the development of strong anarcho-syndicalist tendencies within the labour movement in which the potential for revolutionary political change was seen as residing in the trade unions or syndicats , so that ‘ the workers , schooled by militancy , made irresistible by the all-powerful weapon of the general strike , would take over society themselves , without need of a political party ’ ( Kendall , 1975 , p. 17 ) . |
| 7 | Erm if you recall in our managements ' erm in our discussions when I presented the last the last minutes of the er s the subcommittee which has purchased the ground , we agreed to erm co er co-work with two other two of the clubs sports clubs to establish a management committee , which we would then hope would take over management of the ground from the parish council . |
| 8 | Labour 's proposed Department for Legal Administration would take over responsibility for courts and tribunals ; court procedures ; organisation , training and appointment of the legal profession , magistracy and judiciary ; legal aid ; legal services ; and the Sentencing Council . |
| 9 | He will take over responsibility for broadcasting from the Home Office in addition to administering the new national lottery . |
| 10 | We believe the Department of Trade and Industry should take over responsibility for them . |
| 11 | Clearly , the sooner it is vested the better , as the fund will take over responsibility for maintenance on a regular basis . |
| 12 | The agency will take over responsibility for IBM promotions , exhibitions and sponsorship . |
| 13 | The specifications will be submitted to X/Open Co Ltd for inclusion in the Portability Guide and the standards body will also take over responsibility for the publishing , trademarking and branding of Motif specifications . |
| 14 | If agreement is reached , Reed will sell its interests to the other three parties , who will also take over responsibility for Reed 's guarantees . |
| 15 | On appointment to office a new minister will take over responsibility for many departmental policies . |
| 16 | The information in the Labour party 's document all comes under the new education standards commission that will take over responsibility for Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and co-ordinate the work of local inspectors . |
| 17 | It would sit for a limited period , probably less than six months , and would take over responsibility for those areas of state operation essential for impartial elections including the security forces , a limited budgetary role , the state-owned media and the conduct of the elections themselves . |
| 18 | Where accommodation is provided for a child ordinarily resident in the area of another local authority , the home authority may take over responsibility for accommodating the child within three months of receiving written notification of the situation ( s20(2) ) . |
| 19 | The announcement that Mr Hunt , as current Employment Secretary , would take over responsibility for women 's affairs was made at last week 's Tory Women 's Conference and sparked outrage from Labour MPs and women 's lobby groups . |
| 20 | The President went on to say he regarded Senator Connally 's remarks as an open invitation to the Communists to come down and take over South Korea . |
| 21 | This manoeuvre , followed by the resignations of the representatives of Vojvodina and Montenegro , and the dismissal of the Kosovo representative , appeared to be a ploy by which to force the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA , with its Serb-dominated officer corps ) to intervene and take over authority at federal level . |
| 22 | A FRESH move towards the privatisation of ScotRail was made yesterday with the creation of a Glasgow-based management post to prepare for the establishment of Railtrack , the state company which will take over railway infrastructure next year . |
| 23 | Paul Prescott , ScotRail 's planning and marketing manager , has been appointed zonal director for Scotland of Railtrack , the state company which will take over railway infrastructure next year . |
| 24 | Council may take over running of historic sites |
| 25 | My elderly neighbour goes to a private doctor for her constant little ailments but if she were seriously sick the public system would take over hospital care and post-hospital home-care . |
| 26 | The two-armed machine 's designers at Patscentre , Cambridge , say it will take over routine laboratory tasks such as assay work , culture transfer and chemical sampling . |
| 27 | It can order a private supplier to provide these services , perhaps with the carrot of an explicit bribe or subsidy , or it can directly take over production to run the industry in the interests of the nation as a whole . |
| 28 | Neither will they hand over power gracefully to an elected successor ; the transfer of power will continue to be an abrasive , coup-ridden business . |
| 29 | The military government in Burma said it would hand over power to the pro-democracy opposition which took an overwhelming lead in the elections for the National Assembly . |
| 30 | The faster US troops can turn over responsibility for keeping the peace to Panamanian forces , officials said , the better the US invasion would look to Latin Americans . |