Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had borrowed one of Norris 's big paramilitary-style fawn shirts to wear as a jacket over my anti Poll Tax T-shirt . |
| 2 | It was left to the Glasgow Hillhead MP , George Galloway , at a Scotland United fringe meeting to dissent with the euphoria over the severed links to the Scottish National Party and to question the leadership strategy . |
| 3 | The general procedure , however , is to work with the dog over a period of time , ensuring a non-conflict situation so as to overcome its fears . |
| 4 | She did not want to look at him , and crossed to stand before the mantel over the fireplace , gazing down into the empty grate . |
| 5 | I 'm just going to comment on the lady over there . |
| 6 | One has only to stand on the bridge over the Trannon at Trefeglwys and look upstream to see the stable narrow river coursing elegantly between its magnificent borders of ash and sycamore , and compare this with the immediate downstream reach , which wanders amidst a waste of gravel . |
| 7 | You could see him wanting to talk about the controversy over the redevelopment of Wimbledon town centre ( Greycoat versus Speyhawk , or Caring Architects versus Greedy planners ) . |
| 8 | At many cultural levels the old Petersburg continued to prevail for a while over Moscow in many informal , non-governmental ways , as will be noted in a later chapter . |
| 9 | MORE than 1,500 ferry passengers were stranded last Friday night when eight officers refused to sail after a dispute over water rations . |
| 10 | The next stage is shopping for components , such as forms software , and raising an initial $2m to help with the funding over the next couple of months . |
| 11 | The next stage is shopping for components , such as forms software , and raising an initial $2m to help with the funding over the next couple of months . |
| 12 | Referring to his decision to resign from the Cabinet over the Westland affair in January 1986 , he says : ‘ I made a statement that day making it clear that I was going to continue in active politics in any role the Conservative Party wanted . |
| 13 | I was very angry and threatened to resign from the IAC over the issue . |
| 14 | Environmental Minister , Nicholas Ridley , has forced Councillors to put off a decision over the building of a controversial holiday village in his own constituency . |
| 15 | That is why we have designated this Sunday as a Pledge Day and asked our people to pledge what they believe God is calling them to give towards the Project over the next few years . |
| 16 | have it within their power to resolve the matter very speedily by going to the commission and providing full notification , even if they have to negotiate with the commission over provisions which the submission was moved , then they can get that exemption back dated and , and |
| 17 | For Cubo , who teaches history , the causes of World War One have more to do with the battle over markets and raw materials than with the assassination of the Arch-Duke Ferdinand ( the classical explanation that children are offered from Melbourne to Montreal ) . |
| 18 | The main concern of their administration was to profit from the monopoly over cinnamon , the principal export commodity . |
| 19 | The commission could agree to forget about the argument over the date at which the directive applied , so long as Britain removes all the ‘ excessive discretion . ’ |
| 20 | It was not the Faculty that offered to cooperate with the IoT over examinations , but the IoT which made the offer to the Faculty . |
| 21 | Lumumba attempted to appeal to the public over the radio but he was turned away by Ghanaian troops acting under UN orders ( heading the UN mission was Ralph Bunche ) . |
| 22 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 23 | The results displayed in Fig. 3.14 show that these subjects continued to orient to the light over the course of 16 ten-trial sessions . |
| 24 | of the world 's largest media group , Time Warner , died on 20th December at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer which had forced him increasingly to withdraw from the business over the past year . |
| 25 | Ajayi smiled and nodded , perhaps at the man , perhaps at the thin , wavering line of squares which seemed to hang in the air over the small circular table . |
| 26 | The same year 1960 , saw the Pedler 's retire to live in the flat over the Ladies ' room , although Bill still involved himself helping his replacement — Derek Craik — who came as Assistant shortly before Bill 's retirement ( replacing Keith Mercer , an earlier assistant brought in on the crest of the membership boom ) . |
| 27 | The most likely means of achieving agreement on this appeared to lie in the dialogue over the formation of a Joint Nuclear Control Committee ( JNCC ) — the instrument of inter-Korean nuclear inspection contained within the joint denuclearization declaration — which had begun on Feb. 27 . |
| 28 | This term is used to refer to the consistency over time of financial reports . |
| 29 | Coun Bill Dixon ( Lab ) spoke out after Mr Fallon failed to respond to a challenge over a unique mortgage rescue package . |
| 30 | But they have to pay for the schooling over there , you know . |