Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst the most controversial aspects of the Bush budget was the proposed $46,600 million reductions in Medicare funding and other entitlement programmes cuts over the next five years . |
| 2 | Inset , right : oh , how the design of those programme flyers improved over the years ! |
| 3 | By 1980 Iran 's total production capacity , weakened by reservoir depletion , natural pressure decline and a backlog of work on maintenance programmes accumulated over the preceding years , was assessed at just 4 million b/d . |
| 4 | But there are some silver linings peering over the edges of this dark cloud of history . |
| 5 | Two rivers enter the loch : the River Inver , coming down amongst trees from the hills behind , has a pleasant path alongside much used by anglers , with fishing platforms built over the rushing waters . |
| 6 | The unexpected reduction in the number of criminal legal aid orders granted over the last few months means that expenditure will in any event be lower than originally expected . |
| 7 | If a copper track can not be routed because it is blocked by existing copper tracks , use jumper link wires to bridge over the obstruction . |
| 8 | Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town , marring the views . |
| 9 | A singing black cap ; a peachy-breasted whinchat ; a very spruce wheat ear ; and swallows and sand martins zipping over the water . |
| 10 | Hail and sleet showers swept over the ridge , and the Torridon giants , which rose as distant black battlements when seen from Meallan nan Euan , had changed to seemingly nearer whitewashed walls by the time I 'd dropped and climbed . |
| 11 | How many weekday trains run over the complete Central Wales line ? |
| 12 | Less than a week after riots over price rises in basic commodities left 22 dead in the greatest upheaval since independence 18 years ago , the Consultative Group of donor governments finds itself reviewing Malawi 's human rights record with two large question marks hanging over the debate . |
| 13 | Wilkinson took his team south yesterday with big question marks hanging over the fitness of Dorigo , goalkeeper John Lukic and midfielder David Batty . |
| 14 | There are question marks hanging over the appearance of major grass court stars like Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf , while both Monica Seles and Guy Forget are already sidelined . |
| 15 | ‘ Dover Harbour Board officials checked over the ‘ highly radioactive ’ sand and could not get any reading from it , ’ she added . |
| 16 | Bare granite peaks towered over the south all day and the pools and falls seemed to grow bigger and better every mile . |
| 17 | Five years ago the prospect of music biz power-brokers scraping over the rights to the Reading Festival would have been laughable , but then five years ago Reading was laughable , light years removed from the vital , fun , rather homely popstravaganza it is today . |
| 18 | In spite of a 16 per cent rise in Hydro 's oil production to a record high , selling prices slipped over the year from $20 to $19 a barrel . |
| 19 | Extra-judicial killings by the security forces increased over the same period . |
| 20 | Air France has reduced costs , with 3,000 job cuts planned over the next two years and the sale of its headquarters . |
| 21 | At one point tempers flared over the black beaded gown Madonna wears in a nightclub scene . |
| 22 | Balance is reached by adjustment of the decade switches operating over the tappings of the secondary of the source transformer T 1 . |
| 23 | As water levels changed over the years some caves became dry , while others are still being made larger by the effect of underground streams , and some are still completely waterlogged . |
| 24 | At first the companions think they have stumbled across a dead ship ; the crew lies slumped over the flight deck controls , their heartbeats non-existent . |
| 25 | The economic programme presented in February , which relaxed the monetarist controls implemented over the previous two years and sought to lift the economy out of recession by investing in state enterprises and boosting imports [ see pp. 38774-75 ] , was rejected by the Sejm ( lower house of parliament ) on March 5 by 171 votes to 138 with 38 abstentions . |
| 26 | The big advantage WindowWorks has over the competition is that it supports OLE . |
| 27 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |
| 28 | The consistent purpose in all the changes is to expand the control individuals have over the work situation , their autonomy from management and their voluntary interdependence . |
| 29 | Recent research by the Advertising Research Unit indicates that an adult-like perception of the imagery in cigarette advertisements develops over the years 10 to 14 ; certainly it is well established by 16 years . |
| 30 | Bilateral negotiations between summit leaders aimed at reviving trade talks stalled over the issue of agricultural subsidies [ see pp. 38888-89 ] failed after it emerged that a breakthrough was unlikely before the French referendum in September on the Maastricht treaty or the US presidential elections in November . |