Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun sg] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This provision did not take into account the substantial number of businesses in the licensed trade which are owned and operated by bodies corporate or incorporate and not by individual persons , with the result that the licence holder was a company official who exercised little or no control over the day-to-day running of the premises , or was the manager of the premises , and whose employment could be terminated at any time , irrespective of the date of expiry of the licence , either by his own volition or by his employer 's . |
| 2 | The fall-out from the highly-charged display of white , predominantly Afrikaner , nationalism at Ellis Park , and the furore over the official playing of the ‘ Die Stem , ’ anthem contrary to the tour agreements , rapidly marginalised the achievements of Laurie Mains and his ‘ macho ’ crew . |
| 3 | While there were periods of internal stress , notably the emergence of the various racial , Irish , and student troubles of the late sixties , and the concern over the alleged ‘ ungovernability ’ of the unions at the time of the ‘ winter of discontent ’ in the late seventies , Britain was a relatively stable society internally throughout these forty-four years . |
| 4 | The plans then were delayed considerably whilst discussions were pursued with the Scottish Office and the Treasury over the financial details . |
| 5 | Prefaces by Margherita Asso , Alvise Zorzi , and others outline the problems still facing Venice , especially the lack of detailed studies of the urban fabric and the stalemate over the mobile dams to be constructed in the lagoon . |
| 6 | This means that the painting changes slightly when seen from different angles and the title over the central image flashes up in iridescent colours . |
| 7 | At the heart of the debate , and of the promotion of cigarettes to young people , is a crisis of confidence in the House and the country over the good will of the tobacco industry . |
| 8 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |
| 9 | However , the question : ‘ Has the North-South divide widened under the Conservative government ? ’ is a difficult one to answer — a limited amount of data has been presented , but the evidence over the ten-year period studied is not conclusive . |
| 10 | The government in Moscow persistently denies that any such plans exist , but the arrival over the past year of some 20,000 Germans from Kazakhstan has kept the rumours alive . |