Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] over [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received over the level of the retirement pension . |
| 2 | Priddle and Heywood ( 1980 ) regard antarctic lakes as forming an evolutionary series which has developed over the period of about 20 000 years since the ice-sheet was maximal ; this is in any case a convenient way of describing them . |
| 3 | It has been greatly influenced by the tangled confusion into which the Anglican Communion has stumbled over the ordination of women . |
| 4 | The sow was very angry when we took her little boys away and tried to clamber over the wall of the sty . |
| 5 | Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival . |
| 6 | Nurse Catherine Cockborn said : ‘ The change that has come over the pair of them is absolutely amazing . |
| 7 | How now to understand my passion for Glasgow that has grown over the years of absence from Scotland ? |
| 8 | Much of the controversy which has raged over the issue of AID ( Artificial Insemination by Donor ) revolves around this issue . |
| 9 | Bourassa 's view of the package was overwhelmingly endorsed by a special 4,000-member Liberal Party convention in Quebec on Aug. 29-30 , at which the provincial Premier gave a powerful performance and promised to win over the population of Quebec at the October referendum . |
| 10 | ( Columbia Tristar , 15 , rental only ) Stanley & Iris Once one has got over the novelty of seeing Jane Fonda and Robert de Niro don blue collars to play working-class lost souls , Martin Ritt 's adaptation of the novel Union Street ( set on Teeside ) is fairly absorbing . |
| 11 | Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time . |
| 12 | One tree has been uprooted and has toppled over the Water of Leith . |
| 13 | The UK nevertheless intended to submit its own proposed amendments in January 1991 ( on the basis of Major 's June proposals for a parallel " hard ecu " — see p. 37521 ) , prompting European Commission President Jacques Delors to warn on Dec. 15 of a political crisis if the UK tried to stall over the issues of a single currency and a central bank . |
| 14 | The King said that he had considered abdicating over the question of whether to meet Israel face-to-face , but that he believed that attending the talks would add weight to international calls for Israel 's withdrawal from the occupied territories . |
| 15 | I hope that it will reach a satisfactory conclusion and remove the substantial problem that it has laid over the lives of so many former customers of that bank . |
| 16 | He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor , Sukarno . |
| 17 | The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years . |
| 18 | As Dunleavy and Rhodes ( 1987 , p. 23 ) argue , the government ‘ has presided over the proliferation of single-function quasi-government agencies ’ . |
| 19 | A ROW has erupted over the construction of the controversial coal imports terminal in Bootle . |
| 20 | A MULTI-MILLION pound row has erupted over the construction of the controversial coal imports terminal in Bootle . |
| 21 | In the case of the urban riots , it is the nature of the television coverage which is in essence inciting other young people in different parts of the country to civil disobedience , whereas in the case of football violence , the implication is that the perceived lack of moral leadership by the broadcasting corporations has led over a period of years to a general moral climate in this country which fails to provide adequate controls over the behaviour of the nation 's youth . |
| 22 | They lied at least four times last week as they tried to gloss over the seriousness of a plutonium spillage at the heart of their reprocessing operation . |
| 23 | She tried to gloss over the humiliation of it . |
| 24 | What has happened over the course of this century has been an improvement in people 's states of fitness at particular ages so that whereas at the beginning of the century people in their sixties were regarded as being old , it is clear that people who survive into their sixties are now mainly , as is described below , generally quite fit . |
| 25 | And through this kind of general interest in history , which is not started in academic circles , but elsewhere , and through the interests of adult education works and working groups of various kinds in history , and through some of the best history taught in schools , we 've really broadened our notions of , of , of what history is , and one of the most lively recent developments has been erm the idea of history workshops , where people themselves recall erm what has happened over the course of their own lifetimes , using oral history , tape recorders , and things of that kind . |
| 26 | If this glitch activity has continued over the lifetime of the pulsar , roughly 5% of the moment of inertia of the neutron star must now be effectively removed in the form of pinned vortices ; but according to current models , only 1% of the total moment of inertia is involved in the whole of the superfluid that interpenetrates the inner crust , where pinning might take place . |
| 27 | I propose to think over the situation of the Government generally during the week-end and I have not yet made any definite decisions as to possible changes of Ministers . |
| 28 | Ann McDonald has passed over the task of collecting material for the ‘ You and Me ’ column to Morag Gunn . |
| 29 | CHESAPEAKE BAY Has created over a period of about 17000 years . |
| 30 | Controversy has arisen over the possibility of eradicating the tsetse fly from large areas of Africa . |