Example sentences of "[noun] over a [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English Drama Again Takes Premier Position ’ ran the hopeful headline over a piece that described Hepworth 's Rachel 's Sin ( 1911 ) as ‘ a great triumph in film production ’ which was ‘ all ENGLISH ’ . |
| 2 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 3 | In the beginning , the race took place over a course that included three brooks and a five foot stone wall amongst the 29 jumps . |
| 4 | While not condoning his more offensive behaviour over a career that spanned some 20 of the writer 's 30 years , Bellamy nevertheless offers an often ignored view of Connors ' early years . |
| 5 | When the bread balls hit the water over a bream that was near to the leader , then the leader would react after that fish and then , and only then , would the remainder of the shoal follow suit . |
| 6 | Why are we going to all this trouble over a bridge that we do n't own and that will probably never see a train again ? |
| 7 | Whatever happens , family control over a newspaper that Punch 's grandfather , Adolph Ochs , bought in 1896 will be sustained . |
| 8 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 9 | Myth and menace merge in India 's poll campaign : Tony Allen-Mills writes from Uttar Pradesh on a Hindu-Muslim row over a mosque that could influence the general election later this year |
| 10 | Remarkably , given his evident potential over a distance that is far from overloaded with British success , Solly 's lean years brought little evidence of concern in official circles within the sport itself . |
| 11 | A TOWN in Peru is in an uproar over a legend that a Blackburn woman buried there is a vampire who has vowed to return to life tomorrow to seek revenge . |
| 12 | Like the twelfth floor , glimpsed through the lift doors when the girls had got out , the walls were covered with a pale lemon wash , unlike the twelfth they were hung with pictures , not Old Masters but not Boots the chemists either — prints of hunting scenes and ships and a beautiful soft sunset over a bay that might have been St Ives — pictures deemed suitable for the Executive floor of a great international company . |