Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrangements for the sale of cup final tickets were introduced after a furore over the ticket sales for the semi-final . |
| 2 | Alan Jones , 29 , poured petrol through the letterbox of his girlfriend Christine Smith 's home after a row over a burger . |
| 3 | MALCOLM ALLISON was back in managerial business last night when Dennis Rofe quit struggling Bristol Rovers after a row over the man brought in to guide him through troubled waters . |
| 4 | This woman arrived at the refuge early one summer evening in 1982 after a row over the dinner . |
| 5 | Howe has returned home after a scare over a chest condition . |
| 6 | The obvious way to resolve the dispute was to call a Council to decide among them — though such a course of action might be taken to imply the supremacy of a Council over a pope . |
| 7 | Littlewoods could be on the verge of a decision over the future of the mail-order operations but making the business an irresistible buy will take a dramatic burst of salesmanship by the Moores family which owns this Liverpool group , and their merchant bankers at Kleinwort Benson . |
| 8 | In effect , these were the same as the general powers of a parent over a child of less than 14 years . |
| 9 | Checklists are not appropriate for people who do not have inti-mate knowledge of a child over a period of some weeks . |
| 10 | If he did so intend then , in the case of a child over the age of 16 , his interpretation of the law was inconsistent with the express words of section 8(3) of the Act of 1969 . |
| 11 | The pound plunged to a record low against the mark yesterday in the wake of a row over a document revealing how Germany tried to prop sterling . |
| 12 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 13 | Does " If it 's raining the balcony is wet " mean , in however large a tolerable sense , something about other conditions-say the absence of a canopy over the balcony and so on ? |
| 14 | Suggest other situations where there is scope for ‘ fiddling ’ based on the superior knowledge of the provider of a service over the customer . |
| 15 | These are all labelled , not with the usual words , but with symbols , so you have a diagram of a keyboard over the keyboard socket for example . |
| 16 | IN THESE days when money is scarce for most rugby clubs Morley earned themselves £1,500 on the toss of a coin over the weekend . |
| 17 | By 1983 the National Health Service was employing more than 800,000 staff — an increase of a quarter over the total in the early 1970s . |
| 18 | By notice of motion dated 12 April 1991 the plaintiff made application to the county court for committal to prison of the defendants , alleging breach of the injunction by their execution of a charge over the property . |
| 19 | If experiments such as creep or stress relaxation are performed on the same sample of a polymer over a range of temperatures a pattern of behaviour is apparent that as long ago as 1943 led to the proposal of a " master curve " to which all observations could be reduced . |
| 20 | Strolling down the Strand towards the Savoy for the election-night bash thrown by Conrad Black , right-wing Canadian owner of the two Telegraph s and the Spectator , I meet the dark , unfathomable eyes of a woman over the top of her sleeping bag . |
| 21 | The question placed me in danger of a box over the ear from the broken-nosed physics master who , despite his pugnacious appearance , failed to keep order in any class . |
| 22 | The row over Landsat equipment comes on top of a dispute over a ground station that China has set up in Peking , with American help , for receiving data from US and Japanese meteorological satellites . |
| 23 | He suggests that this was because of a dispute over the carrying of the Irish tricolour ; the NILP would not march with it and the republicans would not march without it . |
| 24 | The MNR had until this time boycotted the CSC because of a dispute over the provision of accommodation in Maputo for MNR delegates . |
| 25 | It is thought that the presumption contained in subs ( 3 ) in relation to the purchase of land would be applied by analogy in the event of a dispute over the ownership of other assets purchased in similar circumstances . |
| 26 | Although there are reports of a dispute over the equipping of the signal box . |
| 27 | In the context of a dispute over the future of pits and communities , the main difference is thus likely to be between those areas with good prospects ( because of high productivity capabilities and substantial quantities of accessible , easily-worked coal ) and those with much less secure futures . |
| 28 | Following a visit to Beijing to sign an agreement on Hong Kong 's airport project [ see p. 38340 ] , the UK Prime Minister , John Major , paid a one-day visit to Hong Kong on Sept. 6 during which he promised to intervene personally with Chinese leaders in the event of a dispute over the status of Hong Kong . |
| 29 | The employee inventor argued that the sums received by the employer under the 1983 and 1985 contracts should be regarded as benefits deriving from the possession of a patent over the invention . |
| 30 | Perhaps the other girl did n't mind being part of a deal over a vineyard . |