Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frost put paid to Mowden Park 's home game , while Newcastle Gosforth warmed up for next weekend 's Pilkington Cup fourth round tie at Manchester with a 27–9 win over Nottingham . |
| 2 | Hindsight throws a retrospective shadow over people and events which distort light and shade as they were actually perceived at the time . |
| 3 | Surely by that time many of you must have realised that had got you into a right pickle over L M S and that you some of you I believe felt that but none of you spoke out about it . |
| 4 | The CAA recently received a communication from the French Director of Civil Aviation advising that a British pilot who was alleged to have infringed height regulations while on a private flight over France was banned from acting as a crew member on any aircraft operating within airspace under French sovereignty for one year — inconvenient for a PPL keen on touring , potentially disastrous for anyone who flies for his living . |
| 5 | The three BBC men had innocently blundered into a private war over access . |
| 6 | An analysis of aggressive episodes could help you to work out a practical campaign to deal with a persistent problem over discipline . |
| 7 | The Scots opened up a 20-shot lead over Ireland after just five ends and then pulled away to finish convincing 56-shot winners . |
| 8 | A scientist has resigned from FoE 's board of directors in protest against the organisation 's decision to adopt a low profile over oil spills caused by the Gulf war . |
| 9 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 10 | The Indians , who qualified for the finals after a last-gasp win over West Indies in the final qualifying match , were never on course to match Australia 's 233 for 5 , the feature of which was an innings of 73 from Dean Jones , recalled after surprisingly being omitted from the previous match . |
| 11 | Keegan keeps the team which produced a last-gasp win over Portsmouth last Saturday after five successive League defeats . |
| 12 | When the 1976 election returns were in , Jimmy Carter was found to have won a narrow victory over Gerald Ford . |
| 13 | In a re-run of their 1992 inaugural golf match XEU Control/Commercial had a narrow victory over Andersen Consulting to square the series . |
| 14 | AN interception try and a penalty , both in the last five minutes , earned Llanelli a narrow victory over Boroughmuir in a spectacular game in front of a 4,000 crowd at Meggetland last night . |
| 15 | There was some impressive middle distance running , with West Suffolk 's Daniel Madams gaining a narrow victory over club mate John Cross in the senior men 's 1500 metres , and Gyamfi Kyereme ( Lowestoft ) gaining an exciting win in the under-17 800 metres . |
| 16 | Systems Development captained by Paul Anderson ( need it be said — also of Technology ) , retained the Inter Branch/Department Shield with a narrow victory over George Gay 's Oddbods team . |
| 17 | Tony Curtis , from Peterborough , landed 12 Rainbow trout to score a narrow win over Simon Hodges , from Bath , who managed to land 12 smaller fish . |
| 18 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 19 | GRANGE were the only side involved in the quarter-finals of The Scotsman Cup to register a weekend double , which was completed by a 1-0 victory over Menzieshill at Cramond , Edinburgh , yesterday . |
| 20 | Cork , under new manager Damian Richardson , scrambled a 1-0 win over Monaghan on the opening day of the championship and followed that up with a less than impressive 0-0 draw at Galway on Wednesday . |
| 21 | Second division leaders De Vere ( Kevin Ford ) won 1-0 at Conlons Newsagents , Albion forfeited their 100 per cent record in a 3-3 draw with Doric Celtic and a second half goal from Paul Stevens gained Fitness Connection a 1-0 win over Alex . |
| 22 | A GARY CROSBY goal after 70 minutes gave Nottingham Forest a 1-0 win over QPR at the City Ground and ended 169 days ' misery in the Premier League 's bottom three . |
| 23 | MOTHERWELL climbed to the top of the Scottish Premier Division for the first time since League reconstruction 14 years ago with a 1-0 win over Rangers at Fir Park last night . |
| 24 | ANDRE AGASSI cruised to a comfortable 6-1 , 6-2 , 6-2 triumph over Marc Rosset last night to give the United States a 1-0 lead over Switzerland in the Davis Cup final . |
| 25 | Byas , opening for the first time this season in any competition , hit his first century in one day cricket as Yorkshire cruised to a nine-wicket win over Derbyshire with 39 balls to spare . |
| 26 | BRIAN LARA cracked an unbeaten century to steer the West Indies to a nine-wicket win over South Africa in Bloemfontein yesterday . |
| 27 | AC Milan , European Cup winners in 1989 and 1990 , underlined the strength of their challenge this season with a 4–0 win over Slovan Bratislava of Czechoslovakia for a 5–0 aggregate triumph . |
| 28 | THE British Lions launched their tour of New Zealand with a hard-earned win over North Auckland at Whangarei but the victory was marred by a shoulder injury to winger Ian Hunter . |
| 29 | It showed that it was not going to be a profitable venture over time . |
| 30 | Joe Swail also progressed to the televised stage of the tournament with a 5–2 win over Nick Terry . |