Example sentences of "be a [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Well , there 's been a court case over it .
2 Adrian Blackman is a worker and a trier , of whom no one could ask more , but there has always been a question mark over his speed and flexibility .
3 Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people .
4 Leaped ‘ There must now be a question mark over their future . ’
5 Danny Quinn was substituted against Dublin after twenty minutes and there must be a question mark over his participation in the final with Fergal McCusker and Karl Diamond both pressing for places .
6 CSRG , in what appears to be a form letter over the signature of CSRG team member Marshall Kirk McKusick , made written representations to BSDI on April 30 , 1991 that Berkeley software ‘ may be freely redistributed … ’ and ‘ requires no previous licence , either from AT&T or The Regents of the University of California . ’
7 Squawking madly in what appeared to be a family squabble over the direction they should take , they suddenly closed ranks , as if by order , and formed a perfect vee behind their leader .
8 I know a very distinguished gentleman at Windsor who 's reaching a certain age where he wants to put the Aston Martin in his will in case there may be a family war over its inheritance .
9 Look , there 's a phone box over there , I 'm going to make a phone call . ’
10 Moving on from Port Erin there 's a mountain section over the three summits of Bredda Hill , Lhiattee ny Beinee and Cronk ny Arrey Las with the western sides of the hills falling down into the west side of the island to Point of Ayre there are long sections of lonely beach walks .
11 All I need is a wildcat strike over pin-ups . ’
12 This is extended so that for any given phrase there is a probability distribution over the objects that can be the immediate constituents .
13 After a considerable delay , the government has agreed to implement the Griffiths ' recommendations , but in the meantime health services have remained overburdened and unable to care for many older people , and there is a question mark over the future of geriatric care as a result of the 1989 White Paper on health services .
14 Millichip refused to be drawn further and then fudged the issue by saying : ‘ This does not mean there is a question mark over the manager but we have to examine the situation . ’
15 The council issues a default notice if there is a question mark over hygiene .
16 It should also be noted that there is a mileage restriction over the three year period of 12,000 miles a year .
17 Although there is a Temiar area over which this is carried out , there is no personal land tenure , though particular fruit trees may have owners .
18 Half way down was a stone arch over the tunnel entrance .
19 There was a copper canopy over it and Alain bent and put a light to the logs that were already there .
20 There was a court case over whether his painting was a portrait or a caricature .
21 After the river , he took a train as far as the Burmese would allow foreigners to go , about a hundred miles short of their guerrilla war , and after that there was a vintage plane over mountains to the real Burma Road ; the road whose legend occupies an odd corner of the memory , like Hannibal 's Alpine venture .
22 I remember too the suppressed terror I felt one Saturday morning when there was a daylight raid over London and a swarm of black flies appeared in the blue sky and seemed to come on and on as we looked out of our house high on Hampstead Heath .
  Next page