Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course he 's slept and eaten with that guitar over the past five years . |
| 2 | They described the King 's surprise and frustration , for usually the Pope made little difficulty over the annulment of royal marriages . |
| 3 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 4 | It costs £6,000 per user , upgrades are £1,500 , and ACT expects that at least 50% of its existing Quasar customers will go that route over the next year . |
| 5 | In practical terms , the gates and fence probably have little advantage over the waist-high barrier and high-profile police presence which has effectively sealed Downing Street from the public for eight years . |
| 6 | The news came as British Olympic chiefs demanded that confusion over the status of clenbuterol the drug at the centre of the controversy should be quickly cleared up by their international counterparts . |
| 7 | ‘ Mind you , I 'm regarded more as a provider than a goalscorer and I have n't done too badly in that department over the last couple of years . ’ |
| 8 | The ‘ Human Resource ’ concept of man-power as the central profit-generating asset of any organisation has made some progress over the past twenty years . |
| 9 | Following this storm over the Coroner 's remarks , the RHA asked an academic to carry out a short inquiry into the problem of suicides in Torbay . |
| 10 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 11 | In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue . |
| 12 | About 1 in 10 has now followed this route over the country as a whole , and in the costly Southeast as many as 20 per cent may opt out of the NHS . |
| 13 | You very humbly describe yourself as an absent Pro-Chancellor , but you have taken a considerable interest in this university over the years , and we 've been grateful for it . |
| 14 | For Dews this equivocation over the epistemological status of his own discourse is a sign of an uncontrollable oscillation : ‘ the shifting perspectives of Foucault 's work ’ , he writes , ‘ do powerfully illuminate , but at the same time fall victim to , the contradictory processes which they address ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm just a broke student trying to earn some money over the summer , and I do n't think I 'm all that articulate . ’ |
| 16 | To suggest that there is an interested and informed big brother , on whom one side could lean , to give it some advantage over the other , is only to prolong the agony . |
| 17 | Pete gave another look over the Princess , and wondered what Ted would have thought of the berthing arrangements had he been here to see them . |
| 18 | Splash this splash over the splash over the bath . |
| 19 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 20 | There is some confusion over the parentage of S. ‘ Fastigiata ’ . |
| 21 | When Welling , who today take on Reading in the FA Cup second round , beat Gillingham at Priestfield in the last round , there was some confusion over the price of entry for juniors . |
| 22 | Even with food industry products there is some confusion over the application of the term . |
| 23 | Although the accounts were concise , the print was too small , and because of some confusion over the treatment of the initial endowment under covenant , the judges later decided that its turnover was over the £1m maximum for the category . |
| 24 | Mature students who lack the requisite O-levels or GCSEs can opt to sit an alternative entrance test , although there is some confusion over the purpose of such tests . |
| 25 | For all its fragmentary ubiquity , getting to play this tune in any serious manner can be a most difficult task and in some areas , of which sociology is one , the band as yet plays in a rather halting and ill-coordinated fashion , while there is some confusion over the choice of instrument . |
| 26 | After some confusion over the numbering scheme , US sources say HP is preparing to debut a low-end with a box that will best the introductory price of Sun Microsystems Inc 's new Sunergy Classic by $10 . |
| 27 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 28 | In cases where MPRP members had stood as opposition candidates there was some confusion over the exact allocation of seats , but according to the elections commission , the MPRP won 357 seats , and the pro-MPRP Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League won nine seats . |
| 29 | While simple coral beads have been clinically successful , there is some uncertainty over the long-term stability of pure corals . |
| 30 | This ends just before the large A4031 bridge from which the canal emerges to cross over an aqueduct over a minor road with a public house below on the left and then crosses over another aqueduct over the railway main line through Birmingham . |