Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [art] [noun sg] of [art] " in BNC.

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1 just lay the trace over the top of the pin it does n't come out .
2 Showing no more emotion over the death of the man than that of the beast , she turned her attention once more to tickling Edward 's toes .
3 MR Ladislav Adamec , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , threatened to quit last night , as hard bargaining continued for a second day with the opposition over the shape of the new government .
4 The struggles over the Contagious Diseases Acts need to be read both as a feminist challenge to male power and as a battle within the power bloc over the disciplining of the working-class .
5 I apply stronger colours with a sponge over the top of the background to provide the smaller branches of the main tree .
6 ( 1 ) Uncertainty over the timescale of the project
7 Similarly , the satisfaction he felt over the Jamaican excursion , with its intoxicating combination of deal-making , fun and the promise of profit , was somewhat dampened by the nagging uncertainty over the future of the Sex Pistols .
8 Yesterday 's announcement followed weeks of uncertainty over the future of the plant , which employs 700 people .
9 Uncertainty over the outcome of the election and the possibility of a replay in the autumn has undoubtedly delayed recovery .
10 Mr Lamont tried to blame the crisis on uncertainty over the outcome of the French referendum and the ‘ extraordinary flow of speculative funds in the German mark . ’
11 This is that , where there is judicial uncertainty over the meaning of a legislative text , in the absence of any consequent overt expression of a contrary parliamentary view , certain categories of statement on the effect of the provision of a Bill by one of a narrowly defined group of parliamentarians , if not later withdrawn or varied , can be assumed to be an expression of parliamentary intention .
12 Tension over the status of the territory continued in 1990 , continuing allegations from Logologofolau that his elected colleagues , together with the traditional chiefs , were not being given a sufficient say in decision-making by the French-appointed Chief Administrator .
13 To stop the motherboard from melting , the company put a small fan over the top of the chip .
14 But he denied attempting to murder Ivor Stokle and Pauline Leyshon by pushing their burning car over the edge of a cliff with the couple still inside it .
15 Some Western Marxists left the Communist fold over the suppression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia , swelling the Trotskyist splinter groups who defended an alternative interpretation of revolutionary Marxism through the Stalinist period .
16 Both sides declined to reveal the subject of their talks , but the Far Eastern Economic Review of Jan. 23 reported that they had discussed progress on Hong Kong 's new airport project [ see p. 38340 ] , the impasse over the establishment of a Court of Final Appeal [ see p. 38679 ] and reforms to the workings of Legco .
17 You could drape a large lightweight shawl over the front of the curtain instead of this triangular drape .
18 President Bush has made a major concession to industry over the implementation of the new Clean Air Act , overturning a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) .
19 Austin 's win helped lessen disappointment over the withdrawal of the tournament 's top two entrants , Steffi Graf and Jennifer Capriati , before the event began .
20 As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years .
21 He admitted ten charges of possessing and supplying cannabis and speed over a period of a year .
22 It is possible to see the weather from a long way off , but as the people at Old Slains know , the weather then arrives at such speed over the surface of the North Sea that seeing it approach seems hardly sufficient warning .
23 TALKS are to be held between a cricket club and a rugby club over the future of a top sporting venue .
24 It said that Mr Lawrie had failed in his duty , in the absence of Mr Macleod , to provide proper guidance and instruction on treasury management to the finance department over the investment of the sums .
25 Prince Edward is even said to have fired a shotgun over the head of a Daily Mirror photographer .
26 Nothing further was heard from him on that subject but in the meantime Whitbread had made contact with a Bedford surgeon , Samuel Young , who embarked on an extended trial of the remedy over the course of the following three years .
27 It was when he became aware of the dominance of some technique which emptied the art of meaning that he began to express scepticism over the art of the last decades .
28 The probability must be that Ceolwulf and Ecgberht were in accord over the future of the diocese of Hexham and that both approved of Acca 's continued exclusion .
29 PRISON officers are threatening to take strike action over the privatisation of the prison service .
30 However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant .
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