Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun sg] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of a heron scarer or wires around the perimeter of the pond , or a net over the pond is advisable if your pond is visited by herons . |
| 2 | Relevant factors included ( 1 ) the hirer 's lack of expertise in the plant hire business ; ( 2 ) that the contract was arranged at short notice and was for a short period of hire ; it was therefore difficult for the plaintiff hirers to arrange insurance cover ; ( 3 ) that the clause was not the subject of negotiation ; ( 4 ) that the hirers had little or no control over the way the driver did his job . |
| 3 | Alternatively , a survey may be used to gather data in circumstances where little or no control over the value of variables of interest is possible . |
| 4 | The human operator has very little or no control over the format or content of the output produced by the computer . |
| 5 | Disputes between the state and the peasantry over the use of common land are not confined to colonial societies . |
| 6 | The entire Market Place was underwater , and the road over the bridge was impassable from six in the morning until seven at night . |
| 7 | Therefore on one side we must assert the authority of the Bible over man and the Church , and not the authority of man and the Church over the Bible . |
| 8 | It is not particularly picturesque and the main road and the ferry over the Seine make it noisy . |
| 9 | These are the skills , and the mastery over the material but he must also progress in his understanding and widen his experience by looking . |
| 10 | She saw leaves of the last fall encased inside them and , yes , it was cold , but there was a fine frosty light , and the mist over the lake made her think of a stoat 's white fur . |
| 11 | Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace have also been feeling the slump in civil aviation : the hangover after a spending boom , the post-liberalisation troubles of the American airline industry and the hiccup over the Gulf war have all cut into demand for new aeroplanes . |
| 12 | He then deals with Cnut 's death , the grief of his subjects , and the quarrel over the succession . |
| 13 | The debate aimed at winning more control over policy , staff and top appointments has been fuelled by the row over the party 's policy on water privatisation and the question-mark over the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke . |
| 14 | Such was the ferment of the times throughout Europe , and such was the rising volume of political controversy within Britain ( bear in mind also the Suffragette agitation and the conflict over the future of Ireland ) , that a more dramatic tipping of the balance than actually occurred in the next few years might have been expected . |
| 15 | We reckoned there were at least 12,000 and the total over the weekend topped the 20,000 mark . |
| 16 | The Woman loomed over the group , tall and brown and smiling down at the two mops of black hair — one over a quizzical smile and the other over a scowl . |
| 17 | The first is to use the blackboard approach described above [ Erman , 1975 ] , but this is criticised as having serious implementational problems relating to the format of entries on the blackboard and the control over the resources that should be available to each component . |
| 18 | The meeting of the Great Hural came after a period of tension between the government and the opposition over the pace of reform . |
| 19 | A ⅜in dowel is set in the ends and the partition over the vent hole and a small brass screw holds a leather washer on to the post to act as a stop . |
| 20 | Melissa recounted briefly the exchanges on the way to the belvedere and the altercation over the book . |
| 21 | And the injunction over the entrance to the ancient Athenian Academy , to know thyself , implies that it is possible , indeed easy , not to know thyself . |
| 22 | He designed the sand garden , the pagoda , the Shinto temple , the ancestral cemetery , the calligraphy court and the bridge over the lotus pond . |
| 23 | To one side of the square is the former railway station and the bridge over the gardens is a former railway bridge — Monte station was opened in 1894 , but the short-lived railway from Funchal closed in 1939 . |
| 24 | The Company had to contribute £3,000 ( and no more ) towards the cost of rebuilding and widening Goat House Bridge in South Norwood and the bridge over the road near Selby Road ; although both were on Tramway No. 20 , within the Borough of Croydon and claimed by the Corporation . |
| 25 | Relatedly , for him , the evils of our times are indicated in the way that , allegedly , the polymorphous perverse has come to prevail over procreation , contraception over conception , and the anus over the vagina — ‘ as if the mark of a civilization dying should be a mountainous sense of excitement for the hole which presides over waste ’ ( p. 162 ) . |
| 26 | This type of derivative is known as the divergence of ; the derivative is taken with respect to the same space–time component as appears in the tensor ( here α ) , and the sum over the expression on the left-hand side is made for all values of α . |
| 27 | But , with the Government in turmoil and the crisis over the arms sales to Iraq adding to its troubles , it was n't difficult to see that Mr Lawrence was exactly where he wanted to be . |
| 28 | So far , the discussion of this turning-point and the debate over the direction of change has been conducted mainly in terms of what kind of manufacturing sector is likely to emerge out of the economic downturn . |
| 29 | This led to complex debate between the USA and the Soviet Union about what the terms of the treaty really meant , and to acrimonious dispute between the US Congress and the President over the meaning of various key phrases . |
| 30 | Sailing with the Northern Patrol , Rawalindi was between Iceland and the Faeroe Islands when , with dusk approaching and a mist over the sea , a large vague shape was sighted . |