Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manchester United , however , got Ukrainian Andrei Kanchelskis for a snip at £500,000 after a protracted struggle over his work permit in May 1991 . |
| 2 | Leeds had a good start in the new competition , climbing to second place after a 7–1 win over Barnsley in October , in which Price got five of the goals . |
| 3 | ‘ I think the Good Lord was looking over me today , ’ said the 28-year-old Liverpudlian after a 5-3 victory over Thailand 's James Wattana . |
| 4 | The Indians , who qualified for the finals after a last-gasp win over West Indies in the final qualifying match , were never on course to match Australia 's 233 for 5 , the feature of which was an innings of 73 from Dean Jones , recalled after surprisingly being omitted from the previous match . |
| 5 | AD LIB RALLY LATEST … over in Gloucester rugby fans have spent the weekend celebrating after a famous win over Saracens … but the price of victory for the cherry and whites was an injury to scrum half Marcus Hannaford which has put him in hospital and put the good name of the sport to the test |
| 6 | Quins , who have won the Cup twice in the past four years and narrowly lost to Bath last season , look a good bet for another Twickenham triumph after a 12-try romp over Second Division Blackheath . |
| 7 | After a small riot over a beaded evening bag ( ‘ But darling , it belonged to your lovely mother , rest her soul ! |
| 8 | The battle for middle-order supremacy resulted in David Lloyd , Finchley moving into second place after a 3–0 victory over Connaught Club , London , and Ealing producing their first win of the season with a 2–1 home victory against Walton Astro 's . |
| 9 | Former champion hurdler Beech Road is an interesting contender , as he reverts to fences after a disappointing season over the smaller obstacles , where his one success came in the ‘ Fighting Fifth ’ at Newcastle . |
| 10 | In Spain Real Madrid now lead on goal difference from Atletico Madrid and Sevilla after a 4-1 win over Cadiz , Hugo Sanchez scoring two and Bernd Schuster one . |
| 11 | Electric Supply ( Craig Till 2 , Lee Murphy 2 ) also stay unbeaten after a 4-1 win over AHF Video ( Tommy Callaghan ) , APH ( Stowe 2 ) shared four goals with Mossley Hill ( Steve O'Rourke , Dean Sayer ) and Malvern ( Neil Marshall , Brian Gowby ) also drew 2-2 with Woolton ( Fisher 2 ) . |
| 12 | The season turned from trauma … to triumph for Gloucester … finishing fifth in the league after a 25-5 win over Harlequins . |
| 13 | And Colin Best has brought the Irish Singles title back to his club Willowfield after a 21-13 victory over Noel Weir from Rathfriland . |
| 14 | ST MARY 'S set up a mouthwatering final with Queen 's after a spirited victory over UCG at St Paul 's . |
| 15 | Mick Price , a quarter-finalist in the European Open a year ago , reached the last eight again after a 5-2 victory over former world champion Joe Johnson . |
| 16 | Mick Price , a quarter-finalist in the European Open a year ago , reached the last eight again after a 5-2 victory over former world champion Joe Johnson . |
| 17 | McManus plays in the last 32 this morning against local player David Roe after a 5-2 victory over Ulsterman Jason Prince . |
| 18 | JODAMI remains a best-priced 4-1 for next month 's Cheltenham Gold Cup after a thrilling win over Chatam in Ireland 's most prestigious steeplechase yesterday at Leopardstown . |
| 19 | Agreement was only reached following a fierce debate over the question of radioactive waste . |
| 20 | The hamstring pull which put Lydon out of the Test series was sustained in the closing minutes of a 50-4 win over Chorley . |
| 21 | MOST of the 45,000 ex-Soviet troops in Poland are likely to leave by the end of the year after the resolution of a two-year row over the pull-out . |
| 22 | Local authorities are to be held accountable for the effects of a financial system over which they will have even less control than the councils in England and Scotland . |
| 23 | Mr Birt and Mr Hussey are at the centre of a deepening row over the way in which the corporation is run . |
| 24 | But it is clear , too , that social classes have been one of the fundamental elements in political conflict in many other types of society ; that slave rebellions , peasant revolts and the bourgeois revolutions were so many instances of a continuous struggle over the control of the labour process and the appropriation of the products of labour . |
| 25 | He said that he did not see the point of a central control over pay beds which was a relic of the Labour governments of the 1960s . |
| 26 | Various experiments of a similar nature over several years demonstrated the same phenomenon over much greater distances . |
| 27 | It is now only a short step to think of comparing ‘ local ’ specific mortality patterns ( m a ) with a standard ( m s ) by means of a weighted average over the age groups of the ratios of m a to m s , using as weights the deaths that would be expected locally if the standard specific mortalities were to apply , i.e. m s x P a This is called the standardized mortality ratio ( SMR ) . |
| 28 | Conceptions of a better world over which Christ would reign for a thousand years ( the millennium ) were later secularized to yield visions of a purely earthly utopia , in which a perfect human society might be possible in the absence of coercive measures . |
| 29 | To speak English verse is the sign of a minimum control over reason and grammar , so that , for similarly mimetic reasons , in Shakespeare drunks do not speak verse ( the barge-scene in Antony and Cleopatra shows some famous men teetering on the verge of prose , and indeed relapsing into it ) , nor do foreigners , nor those with strong British regional accents . |
| 30 | I have taken my colouring for Sample 3 from a photograph of a stormy sky over a small lake at dusk . |