Example sentences of "over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line numbers given here give a better sense of the preponderance of dialogue over narrative in the Shipman 's Tale , a ratio of about 2:1 . |
| 2 | Also from Murray comes the controversial James Beck 's Art Restoration , The Culture , the Business and the Scandal ( April , £16.99 ) in which he reworks the debate the debate over restorations at London 's National Gallery , the Metropolitan , the Louvre , Prado and the Uffizi , as well as the Sistine Chapel . |
| 3 | The Aussie forward was stretchered off during the win over Hull at Wilderspoool , after an incident involving former Welsh RU international Mark Jones . |
| 4 | What advantage did Grimsby have over Hull for the distribution of fresh fish ? |
| 5 | He was amongst those who defaulted over payment of the forced loan at Northampton in 1627 . |
| 6 | Mr Begg called on anyone experiencing genuine hardship over payment of poll tax arrears to contact the council . |
| 7 | There was a mix-up over payment for a meal at a café , and Chapman was hauled off by a gendarme to the police station . |
| 8 | It is typical of the controlling group 's over enthusiasm for the photo press opportunity that they 're anxious to sign anything , even if the policies are not clear . |
| 9 | I cry now over accounts of childhood like this , weeping furtively over the reports of nineteenth century commissions of inquiry into child labour , abandoning myself to the luxuriance of grief in libraries , tears staining the pages where Mayhew 's little watercress girl tells her story . |
| 10 | The Y , so change in Y over change in X so |
| 11 | If a capital sum is paid by the connected body corporate to the settlor then to the extent of the income available in the trust , that capital sum can be taxed as income upon the settlor and the excess of the amount of the capital sum over income for that year can be taxed in subsequent years as income becomes available in the trust . |
| 12 | If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus . |
| 13 | The financial year ending 31 July 1956 showed an alarming excess of expenditure over income in the general account of £2,238 . |
| 14 | The latter , s.92(1) ( f ) , a sweeping up provision , would include , for example , ‘ any pond , pool , ditch , gutter or watercourse prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ , designated a statutory nuisance by s.259(1) ( a ) , and under s.101 certain smoke nuisances , the Clean Air Act 1956 having introduced a new system of control over emissions from chimneys but retained certain emissions as statutory nuisances subject to the control of the 1936 Act . |
| 15 | We have led on proposals for environmental labelling of products , for environmental reporting by companies , for public access to information , and on directives as diverse as the nitrates directive and forthcoming tighter controls over emissions from cars and heavy diesels . |
| 16 | The JDS 's decision and the delay in making it has had serious repercussions for the profession , following as it does the unpopular decision to fine two Polly Peck administrators only £1,000 each ( the maximum possible at the time of the offence ) over conflicts of interest . |
| 17 | The two accountants fined £1,000 each by the Institute 's Disciplinary Committee over conflicts of interest in the administration of Polly Peck International , will not appeal against the ruling . |
| 18 | The psychoanalysis can be used to a limited extent , despite more collective , historical roles er , within disagreed over conflicts in people , or perhaps you say that all the time . |
| 19 | Paul bore all this in mind , looking down at Emily ; he could see her in his mind 's eye presiding over tea-parties at Oxford , saying the right thing to professors ' wives ; playing her part as his own wife , while he continued with his work uninterrupted except — he dared not think of it now — for the nights . |
| 20 | 102 , here attributed to Willem Drost ) , the first depicting the artist 's sick wife Saskia , the second previously thought to be of his son Titus , Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that emotional attachment to the supposed subject matter had clouded judgement over attribution of drawings such as these . |
| 21 | today running over cyclists out the way . |
| 22 | But no one newspaper was singled out for criticism over coverage of the tour . |
| 23 | His Atlantic-coloured regard went over Melanie like a wave ; she submerged in it . |
| 24 | My rocky ride over peaks of peril |
| 25 | The Scots , though , are more likely to recall their 12-6 victory over Romania on their last visit to Murrayfield in 1981 . |
| 26 | SPAIN recorded a sensational 6–0 win over Romania in the FIRA Championship on the first weekend of April in Madrid . |
| 27 | ‘ I know : rhinestones over amethysts over diamonds . ’ |
| 28 | Thus the decorative sumptuousness of the no longer oppositional , visual arts was matched by monumentalism , baroque self-indulgence , and primacy of symbol over function in Vienna 's built environment . |
| 29 | She had already found herself in isolation over progress to monetary union and the endorsement of a social charter of workers ' rights , and it became clear that the new European Community order would be built on an even closer alliance of France and West Germany . |
| 30 | First there was a battle over copies of the will . |