Example sentences of "[noun prp] over [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he was staring wildly at Rocky over the top of her head . |
| 2 | In the Commons , the Prime Minister has said he is still consulting with the United States over the situation in Bosnia . |
| 3 | Police questioned Der'i over the affair in late September . |
| 4 | Itzhak Shamir , the Prime Minister and Likud leader , announced at the end of a Cabinet meeting on Dec. 31 that he was dismissing Weizmann from the Cabinet , claiming that Weizmann had maintained contacts with the PLO over a period of time . |
| 5 | Handy had left McKinsey over the issue of the status of the executive search function within the organisation . |
| 6 | Pablo Benavides , the European Community official who has been trying to mediate between Slovakia and Hungary over the future of the Gabcikovo hydroelectric project [ see ED 67 , 68 ] , has said that his efforts to negotiate a compromise have " reached the limit of possibilities " . |
| 7 | The dispute between Czechoslovakia and Hungary over the damming of the Danube at Gabcikovo [ see ED 61 & 63 ] worsened in October as the Slovak authorities , apparently acting on their own initiative in advance of the imminent dissolution of the Czechoslovak federation , instructed contractors to begin the final stage of construction work to divert the river . |
| 8 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 9 | The committee also discussed the continued disputes between the WFP and the FAO over the distribution of programmes , resources and responsibility , and endorsed a UN suggestion that an " eminent person " should be appointed to consider the relationship between the two organizations . |
| 10 | Wielding the gavel in front of 1,500 people in sweltering heat under a tent on a village football pitch , Paris auctioneer Jacques Tajan sold off the entire contents of the château of antique dealer Bernard Steinitz over the weekend of 29-31 May for FFr 20,049,290 ( £2,045,845 ; $3,682,522 ) . |
| 11 | As Table 4 indicates , substantial changes took place in the structure of residential services in Nottinghamshire over the period of the study . |
| 12 | Einstein learnt the mathematical techniques he needed from his friend Marcel Grossman over a number of years when they both lived in Zurich and regarded the techniques primarily as useful tools . |
| 13 | The stardom sort of crept up on Nicholson over a period of weeks . |
| 14 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 15 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that he personally was informed about British Steel 's decision to close Ravenscraig over a fortnight before the official announcement last week and that instead of trying to reverse the decision , he and the Secretary of State for Scotland took part in a conspiracy of silence ? |
| 16 | If we 're finally able to exclude Burrows from this tangle , and all my instincts tell me he 's not involved , then we shall have to start looking for a compelling reason for one of those people to smash Wetherby over the head with a statuette . ’ |
| 17 | This showed how very different everything was from the situation that had developed in England over the course of centuries , and colonial developments always gave Englishmen the idea that they were moving into empty land and seeing what could be made out of it . |
| 18 | The first signs of political discontent in England over the conduct of the war surfaced in the parliament of February 1371 , when the commons refused to grant a subsidy until the king 's clerical ministers of state had been replaced by laymen who , unlike their clerical counterparts , would be liable to answer for their misdeeds in the royal courts . |
| 19 | During March there were violent protests in a number of areas throughout England over the introduction of the community charge or poll tax , which was to take effect from the beginning of the following month in both England and Wales under the terms of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 [ see p. 36501 ] . |
| 20 | Rincewind watched Hrun over the top of his slab of greasy meat . |
| 21 | But then came a row with the aged President Tito over the sort of reception he might expect on a visit to Belgrade . |
| 22 | ‘ Maybe it was n't the wisest thing to have done , ’ Lisa reflected to Josey over a cup of tea that evening . |
| 23 | There was a major outcry in early February over a decision by officials of the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries to allow George Habash , the leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) , to enter France on Jan. 29 for medical treatment . |
| 24 | Some press reports claimed that Taiwan was also negotiating with Russia over the purchase of Su 27s . |
| 25 | Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia over the future of the Black Sea Fleet began in Odessa on April 29 , having twice been postponed . |
| 26 | More than 300 workers have been on strike since 29 January over a dispute about enforced lay-offs . |
| 27 | Complex political negotiations continued throughout November over the formation of a coalition government , following the October elections [ see pp. 38535-36 ] . |
| 28 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 29 | A decade later , after Crossman 's death in April 1974 , my firm acted for the publishers Jonathan Cape over the publication of his Diaries . |
| 30 | They were probably saved from an early Walesa push for the presidency by the recent row with West Germany 's Mr Helmut Kohl over the permanence of Poland 's western border . |