Example sentences of "[be] [art] [noun] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such were the tolerant conditions still prevailing that the Left Communists were able to publish their own journal — Kommunist — and Lenin had to argue policy questions with them publicly ; just as had been the case over the Brest Litovsk peace treaty . |
| 2 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 3 | Of course , that has been the case over the past 12 years — the record is remarkable . |
| 4 | But that is the risk one runs when , as has been the case over the last ten years , one feels duty-bound to give an immediate account of what is going on , without distancing oneself sufficiently from the subject matter . |
| 5 | A White Paper on defence released on May 21 , 1991 , suggested that future defence considerations would be based less on the South Pacific , as had been the case over the last six years , and more on New Zealand taking an active part in global security matters . |
| 6 | As kite-makers and everyday enthusiasts for kite flying , the Peacock family of St.Albans had also been the winners over the first two years of the Kite Society 's Rokkaku Challenge . |
| 7 | There 's been a shift over the last six years from government funded government grant supported provision to Poll Tax ratepayer provision of these services . |
| 8 | Particularly encouraging to the E&P management has been a gain over the last year in net income to the equivalent of about $3.50 per barrel of oil produced , putting BP well ahead of the performance of most other oil majors judged by the same yardstick and only marginally behind Exxon , the largest US oil company . |
| 9 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 10 | The Board decided to concentrate all its new building of carriages at Derby and Wolverton , Derby to be the HO Over the next decade , carriage works at Newton Heath , Plaistow , and Crewe were closed . |
| 11 | Without it there would be no party over the next four days . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want to be a dictator over the whole thing , to tell them what to do . |
| 13 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 14 | By looking at the world through progressively defocused and focused binoculars , we can quickly convince ourselves that there is a graded series of focusing quality , each step in the series being an improvement over the previous one . |
| 15 | Is the opposite over the adjacent . |
| 16 | Jeffrey : I think what our discussion shows is the importance over the last fifteen years , and particularly in the age of AIDS , of the friendship and support networks which we have developed . |
| 17 | Telford 's canals took a much more direct course than Brindley 's , and so involved much more dramatic engineering , of which a splendid example is the bridge over the deep cutting near Tyrley , on the Shropshire Union Canal . |
| 18 | Most sombre of all is the tomb over the mass grave of the R-101 victims at Cardington , Bedfordshire . |
| 19 | Then there 's a supplement over the four or five person rate to cover our risk that one or two berths may not be filled , and to cover the extra administration effort needed to handle four ( or five ! ) separate sets of paperwork instead of just one . |
| 20 | It 's very rare that there is no wind over the whole country , and to some extent when the wind drops so does the demand for fuel . |
| 21 | However , there 's no flap over the front zip , so some wind leakage is inevitable here . |
| 22 | That , the increa there is an increase over the Wellent er Flood Defence , Wellent and Flood Defence Committee , two and a half per cent , but that as Severn Trent , is set at a zero increase . |
| 23 | Whilst this is an increase over the 1991 level of 41,000 boepd , it is lower than originally anticipated due to the delay in the commencement of production from Piper and lower production from Ninian as a result of the deferral of well workovers from 1992 to 1993 . |
| 24 | In the American Cemetery near Cambridge , England there is an inscription over the Great Wall which lists the men missing in action . |
| 25 | As an initial hypothesis , this seems reasonable : given the amounts of money involved in the experiment , and the fact that their payment was the total over the eight periods of the experiment , this would seem to be a reasonable approximation . |
| 26 | The serious issue was the dispute over the proper amount of remuneration . |
| 27 | From 1947 to 1950 there was a contest over the rival merits of enterprise agreements against collective industrial bargaining but the Densan precedent had the support of the US occupation , the Japanese state and local employers . |
| 28 | Officials at Japan 's Ministry of International Trade & Industry now say that they 're tired of quibbling over market share figures with the US , and say they do n't intend to allow the US to establish a new market share goal in upcoming semiconductor talks , which will begin in Hawaii next Tuesday , the Wall Street Journal reports — ‘ Because there was a controversy over the old 20% figure , which was taken as some form of commitment , we have no intention of referring to any new numbers ’ Koji Matsui , deputy director of the industrial electronics division of the Ministry declared . |
| 29 | There was no change over the second lap . |
| 30 | We felt this was an improvement over the rival system of inserting a tommy bar through the collet and using one spanner . |