Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equipped with Messerschmitt Bf109E fighters , the unit was composed of battle-hardened veterans who had seen much action during the fighting over England during the previous summer . |
| 2 | Also , some appear suddenly ( like a visitation ) , others build up gradually , piece by piece over time in an incremental process . |
| 3 | Uncertainty over performances at the South Bank Centre in London ended yesterday when management and unions agreed a pay deal . |
| 4 | The uncertainty over evil in a way dominates the entire structure of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 5 | In this single speech , Law foreshadowed the development of the party for the next fifteen years ; the strategic dilemma over relations with the other parties after the war , the need to make real concessions to make a coalition workable , the openings that could be created by a national leader of independent reputation ( Baldwin as it turned out ) , and the outcome when the moderate men of all parties came together in 1931 . |
| 6 | Dark over eyes in a dream and the mouth gone … |
| 7 | Once in her room she took a seat by the windows and , pushing her distress over Paul to the back of her mind , tore open the packet he 'd given her . |
| 8 | The FA is taking no action against either club over incidents in the ground . |
| 9 | There they were in 1934 hatching plans for invading Russia but allowing one of their army chiefs — ‘ a typical monocled , duel-scarred , square-headed general of the High Command ’ — to reveal the lot to an RAF veteran over lunch at a plush Berlin restaurant . |
| 10 | That meeting took place at Berchtesgaden , and Hitler was persuaded to delay action over Sudetenland for a week while Chamberlain consulted his colleagues , also the French government . |
| 11 | The judge had earlier given leave for Dr Odling-Smee to be called to give evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations in a pamphlet that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs who surrendered to the British in southern Austria in May 1945 . |
| 12 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 13 | This led to confusion over concentration with the term minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC ) being used as and mistaken for dosage rate when it merely related to the bacteriostatic performance against certain bacteria under artificial conditions and at specific concentrations . |
| 14 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 15 | It was the first appeal court ruling that relatives had a right to claim compensation over damage to a foetus which later caused the child 's death . |
| 16 | The line numbers given here give a better sense of the preponderance of dialogue over narrative in the Shipman 's Tale , a ratio of about 2:1 . |
| 17 | There was not a sharp transition to the next phase because public sector over spill of a ‘ simple housing kind ’ continued into the early 1960s . |
| 18 | In Britain , to date , there has been little experience of union influence over selection amongst the technical and social options for information technology . |
| 19 | Interactivity in an information system gives the user some influence over access to the information and a degree of control over the outcomes of using the system . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , a rather upsetting aspect to the revolutionary planet Uranus , which takes place on 30 March , seems likely to bring a disagreement over finances to a head — and therefore your first priority this April must be to salvage what you can from a rather costly alliance . |
| 21 | The Finnish Rural Party ( SMP ) on Aug. 24 withdrew from the governing coalition following a disagreement over pensions in the 1991 budget . |
| 22 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 23 | Gen. Kassem asserted that Kuwait had been an integral component of the southern Iraqi province of Basra under Ottoman rule and that Iraq had succeeded to Turkish territorial sovereignty over Basra with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire after the First World War . |
| 24 | Traffic concern : Parish councillors are to write to the borough council and Durham County Council over plans for the new cattle market at Roundhill Road . |
| 25 | It was buried in the rose garden at Dunure Mains but such was its fame that 4 years later the body was exhumed and taken to Kelvingrove Museum , Glasgow , where the skeleton is still on display , accompanied by an account of the legal battle over ownership of the horse . |
| 26 | First there was a battle over copies of the will . |
| 27 | THE opening shots have been fired in a £4.5m legal battle over repairs to a crumbling leisure centre . |
| 28 | The director of the prison was dismissed on July 24 and on the same day the Acting Commander of the Air Force , Gen. Hernando Monsalve , requested an immediate transfer , having been accused of incompetence over operations at the prison . |
| 29 | To keep you up to date with the story so far : Katabatic first met Waterloo Boy over fences in the Captain Morgan Chase at Aintree in April 1990 , the pair finishing third and fourth behind Nohalmdun . |
| 30 | We had a long and interesting chat over coffee at a Yonge Street restaurant . |