Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | All the ingredients needed to revivify an ailing research enterprise were on hand : a hefty portion of anxiety over an enigmatic public health problem , seasoned with a dash of desperation over coming cuts in the budgets of NIH 's seven primate research centres . |
| 32 | . All the ingredients needed to revivify an ailing research enterprise were on hand : a hefty portion of anxiety over an enigmatic public health problem , seasoned with a dash of desperation over coming cuts in the budgets of NIH 's seven primate research centres … |
| 33 | She waited to see if he would explain anything about himself , but he simply sipped his cold beer in silence , idly watching a group of children playing see-saw with a plank of wood over a tree stump . |
| 34 | And each time you come to the exercise each time they says they say Here you are solve read through it with a bit of paper over it . |
| 35 | The shock and mystery of two tragic and violent deaths jostled for attention with a sense of uncertainty over her future relationship with Barney . |
| 36 | They can give the familiarity and the regular weekly person-to-person payment of the weekly credit caller or the mail order agent , with a measure of flexibility over payment difficulties which even an understanding commercial lender might find taxing . |
| 37 | Dependence on bureaucracies ( local authorities , the NHS , the social security system ) is said to present people with a lack of control over their own lives , to damage the spirit of independence . |
| 38 | Lancashire are 25 points off the top with a game in hand over the leading five sides and Fairbrother pointed out : ‘ We could be a lot closer . |
| 39 | They allocated to 66 student volunteers the roles of foremen and workers at an assembly plant , with a scenario of conflict over job rotation schemes . |
| 40 | Nevertheless , it is possible that if in the manager-owner contract nexus the manager bears little risk , this may spill over into a lack of control over employees . |
| 41 | Caught in the Frame ( Collins Willow , £19.99 ) : Pictures of a naked man , with nothing left to the imagination , playing the cover drive would , under most circumstances , send traditional cricket followers into a state of apoplexy over their pink gins . |
| 42 | She 'd got into a lot of trouble over many little things , for instance , her clothes in the changing room were being thrown down in a pool of water , and was soaking wet , she had to take them to matron to be dried , matron was cross . |
| 43 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 44 | This expenditure was funded from a surplus of income over expenditure of £876,208 with the balance coming from specific donations to the Eagle Lodge and Therapy Wing projects and from the Association 's general funds . |
| 45 | But underneath all the tough-talking , cryptic statements and pipe-lighting that allows him time to carefully think out his replies , there is another Bill Morrison , a schoolboy at heart , who is happiest sitting in the stands at Lord 's or Twickenham swapping cricketing and rugby stories , who idolises sporting heroes like cricketers Denis Compton and Gary Sobers , four-minute miler Roger Bannister , and former rugby international Gerald Davies , and who is in a fever of excitement over the arrival of his new MG RV8 , a ‘ reincarnation of the old MGB ’ , only ‘ more powerful , more comfortable ( I hope ) and certainly more costly ’ . |
| 46 | ‘ It is extremely serious when someone in a position of trust over women , to whom they go for intimate advice , education and examination , behaves in this way . |
| 47 | ( b ) The other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and the actor is a member of the same household as the victim , the actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity to the fourth degree to the victim , or the actor is in a position of authority over the victim and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit . |
| 48 | ( b ) That other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and the actor is a member of the same household as the victim , or is related by blood or affinity to the fourth degree to the victim , or is in a position of authority over the victim and the actor used this authority to coerce the victim to submit . |
| 49 | This places men generally in a position of power over women , whether at home , at work or through the political , social and economic systems and institutions which govern our lives . |
| 50 | Chairman David Campbell said : ‘ We 're still in a state of shock over this development . |
| 51 | Chairman David Campbell said : ‘ We 're still in a state of shock over this development . |
| 52 | Phonocentricism consists in a privileging of speech over writing . |
| 53 | Will he listen to the pleas of those who have occupied the Waterloo ambulance station , using it for 70 homeless people who in a blaze of publicity over Christmas were helped by the Government ? |
| 54 | Just ask yourself — what value is Blackwomen 's lives in a world in chaos over money , over war , over patriarchy ? |
| 55 | The conference co-sponsored by the Getty Museum and the Goulandris Foundation ( the host organisation ) at the end of May on the Getty Kouros concluded without a consensus of opinion over whether the statue is a fake or not . |
| 56 | It 's a fair bet that 90 per cent of people would admit to a maelstrom of confusion over the facts behind the tragedy of the country which was once called Yugoslavia . |
| 57 | Both the statement and financial figures are expected to relate to a plan for development over a period of 3–4 years . |
| 58 | In the course of time , however , the monotheistic principle began to assert itself , and for a complex of reasons not within the scope of this essay , the god Yahweh was elevated to a position of supremacy over all other deities . |
| 59 | The Learning that goes on in higher education justifies the label ‘ higher ’ precisely because it refers to a state of mind over and above conventional recipe or factual learning . |
| 60 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |