Example sentences of "have [vb pp] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COMMITTEE chairwoman has quit over a row about postal votes at a Darlington community centre . |
| 2 | A tremendous fuss has exploded over a plan to open most of its 260,000 hectares ( 642,500 acres ) to logging . |
| 3 | Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time . |
| 4 | He is a master at keeping a rhythm throughout , picking up speed as soon as he has landed over a fence , and taking the most economical route . |
| 5 | He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor , Sukarno . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | CHESAPEAKE BAY Has created over a period of about 17000 years . |
| 8 | Since embarking on the diet Barbara has lost over a stone and her inch loss is quite remarkable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Aunt Christine Smith stormed : ‘ He might as well have run over a dog . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've pondered over a couple of the things . |
| 16 | For an instant he thought he had rolled over a stone protruding from the turf of the clearing , then he realised what it was and his heart leapt . |
| 17 | Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel ! |
| 18 | For Marx and Engels the French Revolution marked the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism , which had occurred over a century earlier in England during the civil war . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There , he had presided over a society only slightly less diverse than that of the Caucasus and had fostered its development without trespassing dangerously on local sensibilities . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One policeman from an area outside Easton once stated that he had ‘ sort of fixed it ’ for a lorry driver who had run over a lady 's leg because ‘ the lady was n't very nice but the lorry driver was dead on ’ ( FN 22/2/87 , p. 1 ) . |
| 25 | He told his girlfriend he thought he had run over a box . |
| 26 | He had drunk over a bottle and a half already but showed little outward sign of over-consumption , except for his accent curdling into a thicker Scots . |
| 27 | that 's Yeah I , I 've lost over a stone now . |
| 28 | An officers report to Monday 's committee says standards have fallen over a number of years . |
| 29 | At the university here we have got two or three groups in which we do know how to do that and especially the work that I 'm associated with , again the arts undergraduates , we have developed over a period now of something like six years , ways of giving them confidence , and it 's amazing to see what happens . |