Example sentences of "a [noun sg] over [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I map out a route over familiar country near home which takes in some old hedges and one-time mushroom pastures , hoist a gathering bag over my shoulder — and then curse the fact that the mid-October day that I have carefully planned for this expedition turns out to be the most dismal of the autumn so far . |
| 2 | The 1983 British Election Survey also found a change over recent years in favour of ‘ liberal ’ social policies . |
| 3 | Often , Finn emerged from the workroom with a bruise on his cheekbone or a swollen eye , the result of a disagreement over some detail of the work in hand . |
| 4 | In the light of this advice , and using conservative growth rate assumptions , the directors have valued these catalogues and the other audio copyrights on the balance sheet at £12m , which represents a surplus over depreciated cost of £8.9m . |
| 5 | But Israel has complicated US mediation efforts by demanding a veto over Palestinian representatives to peace talks . |
| 6 | Thus the headman had a veto over criminal prosecutions for the petty offences over which village tribunals had exclusive jurisdiction . |
| 7 | In March 1704 Sherard told Richardson , ‘ We sent a vessel over this week to Calais to exchange some prisoners of war . |
| 8 | If it could comply , it would be obliged to accord to this baby a priority over other patients to whom the health authority owes the same duties , but about whose interests the court is ignorant . |
| 9 | THE NARROW stretch of sea dividing the island of Skye from the Scottish mainland is embroiled in a debate over private investment in road building . |
| 10 | There followed a debate over economic policy in which the principal protagonists — though many others joined in — were Keynes on the one hand and the Treasury on the other . |
| 11 | There has been a trend over recent years for professionals to advise mothers not to toilet train their children early . |
| 12 | DEFENCE chiefs will today be accused of a cover-up over reported sightings of a UFO near a Suffolk airbase . |
| 13 | And the eventual cause of the impasse a row over French intransigence on its oilseed production is only the tip of a terrifying iceberg of disputes which centre on such other products as steel , coal and even financial services . |
| 14 | Unhappily , at Christmas he also allegedly threw her against a wall during a row over another woman at a party at their home in Castle Rock , Colorado , was charged with assault and is now was arrested , charged with third degree assault and released on $1,000 bail . |
| 15 | At Leyland , Preston and Chorley a skilled workforce has built up a reputation over many years for producing lorries and buses . |
| 16 | A survey over one year at Link showed that only 11.8 per cent of deafened people attending courses did not have tinnitus . |
| 17 | Latest costings showed his cows giving 9,595 litres of milk with a margin over purchased feed of £1,545 and a gross margin per hectare at a ‘ staggering ’ £4,611 . |
| 18 | FISHERMEN today mounted a blockade of Plymouth harbour in a protest over cheap imports of fish . |
| 19 | He mused for a time over alternative means of strengthening control , even on the possibility of a Minister replacing Citrine as chairman , but in the end he accepted the logic of the independent Morrisonian public corporation on which Labour 's nationalisation had ostensibly been based . |