Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] over the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Magdalene Bridge over the River Cam is a cast-iron structure of 1823 . |
| 2 | While America , Canada and Mexico equivocate over the North American Free Trade Agreement , there is a new enthusiasm about open trade among countries to the south . |
| 3 | Rennie built the beautiful aqueduct carrying the Lancaster Canal over the Lune ; but even more striking was the Pontcysyllte aqueduct , constructed by Telford between 1795 and 1805 , carrying the Ellesmere Canal over the Dee . |
| 4 | Three miles south-east of Bath , off the A36 , is the Dundas Aqueduct , which carries the Kennet and Avon Canal over the Avon . |
| 5 | It was constructed by Telford ( q.v. ) in 1796 to carry the Shrewsbury Canal over the River Tern , and was very much a piece of engineering experiment at the time , to be carried to glorious triumph in the simultaneous building of the great aqueduct at Pont Cysyllte ( q.v . ) . |
| 6 | Rennie built the beautiful aqueduct carrying the Lancaster Canal over the Lune ; but even more striking was the Pontcysyllte aqueduct , constructed by Telford between 1795 and 1805 , carrying the Ellesmere Canal over the Dee . |
| 7 | The controversial Commons amendment over the Maastricht Treaty 's social chapter — which last week was said to threaten the entire treaty , if not the future of the Government — simply did not matter . |
| 8 | On the eve of the Foreign Secretary 's visit to Argentina , the Government has reiterated there 's no doubt about UK sovereignty over the Falklands . |
| 9 | The company constructed Vauxhall bridge over the Thames , the railway bridge at Trent junction , and the railway viaduct over the Derwent . |
| 10 | On the Great Western route we have such major engineering achievements as the Wharncliffe Viaduct over the Brent valley at Hanwell , the Sonning cutting , the embankment west of Chippenham ( and the fine viaduct over the town itself ) , the Box tunnel , and the series of tunnels , cuttings and embankments between Bath and Bristol . |
| 11 | The course , starting and finishing at Mountbenger , is based on the B709 , B7009 with the climb from the Ettrick valley over the Swires to the A708 on the Yarrow valley . |
| 12 | Two bodies have been found in the wreckage of a civilian helicopter which was in a mid-air collison with an RAF Tornado jet over the Lake District . |
| 13 | Some press reports described the holding of the WEU parallel meeting as establishing a precedent for greater EC influence over the WEU [ see also pp. 38022 ; 38115 ] . |
| 14 | This project has been conceived and designed by engineering staff in the Regional Council 's Department of Highways with assistance being given by ScotRail and Messrs J B Schofield and Partners in the design and construction supervision of the two bridges carrying the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway over the Sighthill Bypass and associated roadworks and in the temporary diversion of this railway . |
| 15 | The first appreciable new residential development subsequent to the war , to take place in Chiswick , occurred in 1956 , on a section of land between the Cubitt 's Yacht Basin and the end house in Hartington Road , close to Chiswick Bridge over the River Thames . |
| 16 | Douglas Fox 's potential was well exercised when , from 1863 to 1866 , the firm , still just father and son , masterminded the complex system of viaducts and bridges in Battersea , separating the lines from the east and south to Victoria from those from the south-west to Waterloo , including the widening of the Grosvenor bridge over the Thames from two to seven tracks . |
| 17 | As part of these works he built a number of fine masonry viaducts , such as those at Cefn and Chirk , as well as the Kingsland bridge over the Severn at Shrewsbury , then one of the largest single-span iron bridges in Britain . |