Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Share the tension and drama as the last Lancaster bomber is ‘ talked down ’ to safety after a raid over enemy territory . |
| 2 | Share the tension and the drama as the last Lancaster is ‘ talked down ’ to safety after a raid over enemy territory . |
| 3 | Brown — formerly on the coaching staff at Chesham — took over at the Diadora League Premier Division club in December , when George Borg resigned after a disagreement over playing policy . |
| 4 | The arrangements for the sale of cup final tickets were introduced after a furore over the ticket sales for the semi-final . |
| 5 | Alan Jones , 29 , poured petrol through the letterbox of his girlfriend Christine Smith 's home after a row over a burger . |
| 6 | MALCOLM ALLISON was back in managerial business last night when Dennis Rofe quit struggling Bristol Rovers after a row over the man brought in to guide him through troubled waters . |
| 7 | This woman arrived at the refuge early one summer evening in 1982 after a row over the dinner . |
| 8 | However the meeting broke up after a row over whether it should be video taped . |
| 9 | But there 's only one rider left … all the others went in search of better deals after a row over new payscales … |
| 10 | A KEY trio of Lithuanian players look certain to miss tomorrow 's World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Vilnius after a row over insurance cover . |
| 11 | A KEY trio of Lithuanian players look certain to miss tomorrow 's World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Vilnius after a row over insurance cover . |
| 12 | Mr Plowright , who was responsible for programmes such as Coronation Street , Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel in the Crown , was forced out after a clash over strategy at the company . |
| 13 | Howe has returned home after a scare over a chest condition . |
| 14 | MORE than 1,500 ferry passengers were stranded last Friday night when eight officers refused to sail after a dispute over water rations . |
| 15 | At the end of September 1991 Volksunie withdrew from the coalition after a dispute over arms sales to Saudi Arabia . |
| 16 | The elections had been held early as a result of a crisis which had arisen following a scandal over school catering , leading in July to the resignation of the DC mayor , Pietro Giubilo . |
| 17 | In mid-October 300 town council employees from Manzini , approximately 40 km south-east of Mbabane , were dismissed following a strike over unpaid allowances . |
| 18 | ‘ Are you going to take the word of a prisoner over mine ? ’ snarled Nicholson . |
| 19 | As well as its contribution to study skills , the science curriculum for years 3–5 contributed to the Challenge of Change theme in the form of biological surveys ( e.g. comparisons of a field over passing years , investigations of pollution at the town tip , and classifications of flora and fauna in a local creek ) . |
| 20 | It comes out of your mouth and instead of a mask over your face , your this tube connects directly to the ventilator and the anaesthetic machine . |
| 21 | The move follows news that the road could be at risk because of a wrangle over European cash grants , with the possibility of more than £4.5m to Durham County Council being blocked . |
| 22 | The obvious way to resolve the dispute was to call a Council to decide among them — though such a course of action might be taken to imply the supremacy of a Council over a pope . |
| 23 | ‘ I tell you it went down that last passage on the right , ’ hissed Kring in a voice like the scrape of a blade over stone . |
| 24 | I hope this is n't going to cast too much of a blight over seasonal festivities . |
| 25 | Loss of the loved one can raise the same intensity of emotion : a sense of betrayal , hatred of the betrayer , extreme jealousy of a rival-feelings over which a person may believe they have little or no control . |
| 26 | Littlewoods could be on the verge of a decision over the future of the mail-order operations but making the business an irresistible buy will take a dramatic burst of salesmanship by the Moores family which owns this Liverpool group , and their merchant bankers at Kleinwort Benson . |
| 27 | [ For details of the deferment of a decision over Haiti 's application for membership of CARICOM see p. 37648 . ] |
| 28 | Japan has become the centre of a storm over its plans to build a canal that threatens one of the wetland sites protected under the Ramsar Convention , whose three-yearly meeting it hosts in June . |
| 29 | context-derived preferences for one sense of a word over another , as modelled , for example , in script-based processing ( Schank & Abelson 1977 ) and systems using marker passing or spreading activation ( Alshawi 1987 ; Hirst 1987 ) ; |
| 30 | Over the years , the experts seem to have got in all of a lather over what we should do to cleanse our skin properly . |