Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] over a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A COMMITTEE chairwoman has quit over a row about postal votes at a Darlington community centre .
2 Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time .
3 He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor , Sukarno .
4 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 .
5 CHESAPEAKE BAY Has created over a period of about 17000 years .
6 My belief is that our good practice has evolved over a period of more than 50 years and that it has developed in classrooms through the dedicated expertise of British teachers enjoying the relative freedom traditionally allowed within our education system .
7 The King added that he knew MacDonald could depend on Conservative and Liberal support , and he agreed to preside over a meeting of the three party leaders on the following day .
8 He did n't want to talk about it , and muttered that he 'd resigned over a matter of principle concerning next year 's timetable .
9 Allowance will be made for the early payment of a lump sum to the employer which he would have earned over a period of time .
10 People 's eating habits and food preferences are learned ; they are habits that become ingrained over a period of years .
11 My father still had full use of both his legs at the time , and had to use them to run up and down from kitchen or lounge to the bedroom and back when Agnes rang the little bells sewn into the bell-bottoms of her jeans , which lay draped over a chair by the side of the bed .
12 Progress does not have a financial stake in Object Design as reported ( UX No 420 ) — confusion seems to have arisen over a plan under which Progress may take over all rights to Object Access .
13 And to Carole 's annoyance , Hyacinth Scragg had not turned up , despite the reminder she had received over a cup of tea at the conference centre .
14 I 've pondered over a couple of the things .
15 To pass the time , the conversation had ranged over a variety of topics , from sport to current affairs , then had finally settled after some time on shop-talk — inevitable when any group of cops got together anywhere in the world .
16 In that capacity he had presided over a campaign against corruption , and more positively over a relaxation of the restrictions upon private trade and local government .
17 Eisenhower had presided over a period of grim Cold War tension which he , like most Americans , believed had been caused by the ambitions of world communism .
18 It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it .
19 An officers report to Monday 's committee says standards have fallen over a number of years .
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