Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been over the greater part of Van Diemen 's Land and the Islands in Bass 's Straits and appear highly gratified with their peregrinations : a government vessel has generally been devoted to their use . |
| 2 | These restrictions on testation had disappeared over the greater part of England early in the fourteenth century , but they survived in the province of York till 1692 , in Wales till 1696 , and in London till 1724 . |
| 3 | There was merely conventional wisdom about such questions as principles of road design , use zoning , building heights and controls over the external appearance of buildings . |
| 4 | Cohn ( 1971 ) presented evidence that summated auditory evoked potentials show a greater amplitude of initial output over the right hemisphere with click stimuli but higher amplitude over the left hemisphere when subjects listen to monosyllabic words . |
| 5 | On May 8 Sami Abdul-Rahman , a member of the delegation [ see p. 38127 ] , said that " the talks [ were ] going on in a positive spirit " , although questions relating to international guarantees for an accord and Kurdish control over the oil-producing town of Kirkuk remained unresolved . |
| 6 | The English had removed the head of a king as early as 1649 , and the Glorious Revolution of 1688 could be interpreted as an example of Rousseau 's ‘ general will ’ of the people triumphing over the Divine Right of Kings . |
| 7 | Mada Joyce and a neighbour bent over the cooking fire arguing over the best decoction of herbs for the girl 's condition . |
| 8 | But as he has also said , for longer that any of us care to remember all attempts at rational arguments over the best use of resources in Highfields have been drowned out by noise from the grinding of axes . |
| 9 | Such a move offered the possibility of a major confrontation between executive and legislature over the contentious issue of abortion only a year before the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 10 | It is possible that in the Eastern District , the committee and officers were not fully aware of the implications of the Bedfordshire arrangement in their natural anxiety over the immediate issue of continuity of the rural scheme . |
| 11 | Albumin concentration was measured by immunoturbidimetry ( coefficient of variation 5.1% over the working range between batches ) and creatinine concentration by the kinetic Jaffé reaction ( coefficient of variation 10% between batches ) . |
| 12 | a Perfect clue : Vandals who attacked a bus station left police the perfect clue they daubed their names over the freshly-painted terminus in Seaton Carew . |
| 13 | He was keeping his head pointed firmly downwards , but he could feel a disresonance and his eyes searched over the stencilling shading of rock , scrub and moor . |
| 14 | Towering over the modern centre of Newcastle , the provincial capital of the north east , and facing Tyne-wards , he surveys the ancient city . |
| 15 | In debate , the Home Secretary reiterated Wolfenden 's general position over the legal position of prostitution : |
| 16 | It will then have to contend with a challenge in the British courts over the legal status of Britain 's opt-out from the social chapter . |
| 17 | ‘ You are eight years over the legal age of retirement , ’ Adam reminded Buzz . |
| 18 | The eagerness of senators to address voter anxiety over the current level of crime in advance of the 1992 elections was demonstrated by the manner in which both Democrats and Republicans attempted to claim credit for the anti-crime package . |
| 19 | ‘ The controversy , ’ says Finlay , ‘ is over the current designation of Foinavon at 914 metres when we converted from the old imperial contour . |
| 20 | On April 24 , 1990 , the government legalized the Eastern Rite Catholic Church , although the return of church buildings taken over by the Orthodox Church remained difficult to resolve because of uncertainties over the current number of Uniates . |
| 21 | The paper was prompted by the Law Society 's concern over the increasing cost of defaults — it estimates that claims against its compensation fund will reach £20m annually , mainly attributed to defaults of sole practitioners ( defaults within partnerships usually fall on the solicitors ' indemnity fund ) . |
| 22 | As with the area of homosexual conduct , the origin of public concern about prostitution lay , not in some liberal or permissive attitude of tolerance , but in a ‘ moral panic ’ over what was believed to be the increasing visibility of a form of deviant behaviour , this time over the increasing visibility of prostitutes and prostitution . |
| 23 | Both Jarlshof and Ness of Burgi have been covered in the thin film of oil which was deposited all over the southern part of Shetland . |
| 24 | Stack Rock won over the minimum trip at Newbury earlier in the season and , with rain forecast in the Haydock area , he should have everything in his favour today . |
| 25 | One offers chequebook facilities but pays interest only on any excess over the minimum balance of £15,000 ( or equivalent ) . |
| 26 | Driving fast , their truck jolted and lurched over the uneven desert towards safety . |
| 27 | In this sense , there is a direct parallel to the debate in Chapter 2 over the uneven impact of deindustrialization . |
| 28 | The main areas of disagreement were over the economic control of aviation on the North Atlantic . |
| 29 | Finally I 'll just say this to him , I agree that we have a great deal of things to learn from the United States , not in the way he suggests but it is a fact that er over the economic cycle of O E C D between seventy nine and eighty nine er America the United States saw growth of twenty six percent which created eighteen and half million jobs in their free enterprise economy . |
| 30 | With strict control over the internal movement of people inside Japan , and a strictly enforced system of social hierarchy , it is not difficult to see how the identity of groups at a local level might be maintained . |