Example sentences of "[noun sg] over a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now in a ruinous condition but has the distinction of being the oldest existing railway bridge over a river in the world . |
| 2 | To claim priority over an idea in these circumstances is to take a risk indeed . |
| 3 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 4 | There had been a staggering decrease in difficulty over a century in the largest Swedish daily , Dagens Nyheter , which roughly corresponded to the difference between children 's books and adult literature . |
| 5 | Two veiled female figures leaned in exaggerated mourning over an urn in the Grecian taste of the 1810s . |
| 6 | The PDS emphasized concern over a deterioration in the comprehensive social protection currently offered by the East German state . |
| 7 | The Gambia announced on Oct. 23 that 980 illegal immigrants , the majority from Guinea and Sierra Leone , had been deported ; the expulsions were apparently prompted by concern over a rise in violent crime . |
| 8 | Investment was low , interest rates rose , there was concern over a fall in the population level from its 1974 peak of 62 million , and there were calls to cut back on the high social welfare spending built up by the SPD governments . |
| 9 | Employee concern over an article in the Independent newspaper concerning mammograms was raised at a recent meeting of the health and safety committee . |
| 10 | There was a row over a kettle in the communications room at Alfreton in Amber Valley , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley drew attention . |
| 11 | Ace had hung her coat over a chair in her lab , and was busy rearranging the workings of several weapons with the aid of a set of jeweller 's screwdrivers . |
| 12 | No presbyterian can see why a monarch should have jurisdiction over a belief in God 's kingdom . |
| 13 | It was nine by the church clock and another clock over a bank in the town hammered out the strokes . |
| 14 | By taking the computer processing offshore on to the survey boat — the Geco Resolution — for the first survey over a prospect in Block 6 , the seismic team were able to collapse the serial process of acquisition , processing and initial interpretation , to a parallel process . |
| 15 | Equally , when Bishop Æthelstan of Hereford was involved in litigation over an estate in Cnut 's time , it was ordered ( S 1460 ) that the boundaries be retraced , and this the bishop did together with the man who had sold him the land and the witnesses . |
| 16 | An alleged hitman accused of pushing a young couple over a cliff in a burning car has claimed he was at home smoking drugs at the time . |
| 17 | James Palmer , who bungled an attempt to push his neighbour over a cliff in Exmouth , Devon , was jailed yesterday by Bristol Crown Court for 10 years . |
| 18 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |
| 19 | Mr Mackarness runs a property company from this office over a shop in South London . |