Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] over [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harcourt 's reasons for fleeing Normandy are not entirely clear : he was at odds with the Comte of Tancarville over the office of Chamberlain of Normandy , and he appears to have had personal grievances against Philip VI . |
| 2 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 3 | Witness the attempt to use the impeachment process against Lincoln 's successor , Andrew Johnson ; the defeat of Wilson over the Treaty of Versailles and the routing of his party in the 1920 election . |
| 4 | At one level this meant that the exiguous legal structure of this relationship afforded much social power to the landowner , whose ability to terminate the tenancy at pleasure might hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of his tenant farmers . |
| 5 | Superpowered craft capable of surging across the water at 120mph will take part in a high speed challenge for the class two championship of Europe over the weekend of June 19–20 . |
| 6 | However , Russia formally protested to the Council of Europe over the status of Russians in the Baltic states , it was reported in The Baltic Independent of May 15-21 . |
| 7 | This was done to ‘ focus light from one of the heavenly bodies , direct and unpolluted , into the Holy of Holies over the heads of the assembled congregation ’ . |
| 8 | He also brought to an end , but not without difficulty , the suit which had begun between the archbishop and the chapter of Canterbury over the church of Lambeth , which the same archbishop , against the will of the chapter , had built and endowed with many and substantial rents , instituting canons regular in it — noble men , powerful and educated . |
| 9 | During March there were violent protests in a number of areas throughout England over the introduction of the community charge or poll tax , which was to take effect from the beginning of the following month in both England and Wales under the terms of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 [ see p. 36501 ] . |
| 10 | Complex political negotiations continued throughout November over the formation of a coalition government , following the October elections [ see pp. 38535-36 ] . |
| 11 | Some press reports claimed that Taiwan was also negotiating with Russia over the purchase of Su 27s . |
| 12 | But the conflict with Armenia over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh is never far from anyone 's mind . |
| 13 | ‘ Sovereignty ’ is a word open to misunderstanding and one that is used in the sphere of international law ( for example , the dispute with Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands ) , and also in the political arena ( for example , in the debates on the United Kingdom 's membership of the European Community and on subsequent issues such as the Single European Act 1986 and European Monetary Union , there was considerable rhetoric on sovereignty ) . |
| 14 | Mubarak reportedly emphasized the " pressing " need for pan-Arab unity in the face of a possible renewed confrontation with Israel over the resettlement of Soviet Jews in its occupied territories , at a time when the US-sponsored peace formula for the region had been rejected by Israel . |
| 15 | The Palestinian delegation , bolstered by several new members , insisted that it was only prepared to negotiate with Israel over the issue of settlements and over human rights violations in the occupied territories . |
| 16 | Following Britain 's recent dispute with China over the stationing of People 's Liberation Army troops in Hong Kong after 1997 , Whitehall has been at pains to keep its distance from the immigration row . |
| 17 | BRITISH hopes of returning to normalcy in negotiations with China over the future of Hong Kong appeared to have been thwarted yesterday as the 14th round of Sino-British talks ended with only limited signs of progress . |
| 18 | He said Christopher Davies who was working in the shop Butterflys on Grange Road , Darlington , was injured during a fracas with Cowper over the theft of a £11.75 torch . |
| 19 | Kasmin had more success with Fischer over the promotion of Francis Bacon . |
| 20 | Early in 1953 Britain and Egypt were still deadlocked over the future of the Suez base , while no settlement seemed in prospect to the dispute with Iran over the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company . |
| 21 | A similar problem arose when the USA had to deal with Iran over the seizure of its Embassy staff in 1979–81 . |
| 22 | China has agreed to resume talks with Britain over the future of Hong Kong . |
| 23 | There was correspondence with Woburn over the construction of a shelter for orange trees , to be added to an existing wall , with a moveable roof erected every autumn . |
| 24 | Furthermore , in order to balance out his marriage alliance with the Calvinist Palatinate , he alarmed and antagonized many of his subjects by conducting protracted negotiations with Madrid over the possibility of a marriage between his son , Charles , and the Spanish Infanta . |
| 25 | Marx in the notebooks is opposed to McLennan , Maine , Phear , and other who disagreed with Morgan over the commonality of the gens , principally because they saw society growing out of the individual monogamous family with its private property . |
| 26 | The USA would enter into a direct dialogue with Vietnam over the issue of Cambodia . |
| 27 | Baker also announced that the USA would enter into a direct dialogue with Vietnam over the issue of Cambodia and that it might be prepared to provide humanitarian aid to the SOC government . |
| 28 | I do n't entirely agree with Michael over the business of not being quite so familiar with the work when the children are at secondary school . |
| 29 | As Table 4 indicates , substantial changes took place in the structure of residential services in Nottinghamshire over the period of the study . |
| 30 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |