Example sentences of "in [noun prp] over [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there 'll be playing for civic pride in Hereford over the coming week … more than a thousand sports men and women from Cheltenham , Worcester and Hereford are competing in 21 different sports in the annual ’ Sport for All ’ festival . |
| 2 | Then again , his paternalistic leadership style , his willingness to bring ex-Nazis into office , his pro-Westernism and his fostering of materialism were to invite widespread criticism in Germany over the following years . |
| 3 | Over the past few months there have been detailed discussions ( which are continuing ) in Brussels over the technical context and allocation of funding for the new workplan . |
| 4 | Then there is a suit in Miami over a missing $6 billion ( £3.4 billion ) from Panama 's treasury . |
| 5 | He was active in Westmorland over the forced loan . |
| 6 | The latest incident follows 24 attacks — one fatal — in Hampshire over the past year . |
| 7 | He wants the findings and recommendations of the Commission for Local Authority Accounts in Scotland over a special report on the Western Isles Council and BCCI set aside in an action for judicial review that went before Lord Prosser yesterday . |
| 8 | I have written before about the controversy raised in Scotland over the National Trust for Scotland 's mountain properties and breaking the ‘ rules ’ set by its mountaineering benefactor Percy Unna , who wanted the hills kept natural . |
| 9 | He added that the electorates of UN member States might be unwilling to see their young men die in Ireland over a sustained period . |
| 10 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 11 | Data processing has been a key employment growth area in Britain over the past decade . |
| 12 | The remit which I set myself is to examine in outline the ways in which the political parties have both responded to and helped to shape the pertinent social collectivities in Britain over the post-war years , and how the activities of political forces have been constrained by , and have served to maintain or transform , the economic class relations of British capitalism . |
| 13 | This allocation of bargaining rights to minority unions in some cases ( thereby institutionalising union pluralism ) may also help to explain the chronic weakness of union organisation in France over a long period . |
| 14 | The European Communities ( EC ) were reported on June 11 to have warned South Africa that there was increasing disillusionment in Europe over the slow pace of reform . |
| 15 | " The Meeting Considering that the Island is in a backward state of Cultivation , have Resolved as an Improvement that each occupier of a 4d. land in Tillage over the whole Island shall sow in the ensuing Spring 2 pecks of Peas & Beans , and for enabling them to have proper Seed they now request that Shawfield will take the trouble of sending a Cargo of Peas & Beans to the Island in proper time … " |
| 16 | The acute shortages of public funds for basic education in Zambia over the past decade have led to an increasing reliance on external aid to finance educational initiatives . |
| 17 | Fighting in the former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has intensified , meanwhile , in the run-up to the latest round of peace talks in Rome over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 18 | Regulations for the Ukrainian army were being drafted , following criticism from the Supreme Soviet in a statement in April over the slow formation of Ukrainian armed forces . |
| 19 | America 's faltering recovery continued with a 6.7% rise in housing starts in April over the previous month , lower than had been expected after a first quarter in which housing starts had been curbed by bad weather . |
| 20 | So , when the subject under debate is the country 's richest cultural jewel , feelings are likely to run at least as high as they did in Paris over the pyramid at the Louvre or in London over the National Gallery extension . |
| 21 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 22 | ‘ The war that has raged in Bosnia-Herzegovina over the past year has taken a staggering toll : thousands have been killed or imprisoned , thousands more are at risk due to hunger and exposure , and over two million people have been forced from their homes , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Life has certainly been tough in Poland over the past year . |