Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Wednesday he invited network news anchors to lunch for a private chat over a mixed grill and broccoli . |
| 2 | In particular Ramsey helped the Anglo-Catholic members of the Conference to take a more friendly attitude to the South India Church , which united a Church with bishops to Churches without bishops in a unified structure over a period of years . |
| 3 | And though the new government came to power threatening to precipitate a European crisis over a detested farm deal that had been negotiated between America and the EC , only three of the 29 ministers of the new government are anti-Maastricht . |
| 4 | This was solid glass with a panoramic view over a forest-fringed lake , which was really an arm of the sea . |
| 5 | From up here he had a panoramic view over a large part of the course and as he was in the last row could see behind as well as forward . |
| 6 | The leaders try to reconcile these contradictory tendencies by arguing that given the freedom of choice , the masses will want a technical expert over a political ideologue . |
| 7 | THE whistle has finally been blown on a controversial battle over a five-a-side football complex in Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | He had also fallen foul of the rules , with a controversial decision over a free drop during the final round . |
| 9 | This latter is a longitudinal survey over a period of two and a half years following a structured sample of some 4,000 persons who registered as unemployed in May 1980 . |
| 10 | Ten a.m. , 24th July ; just finished breakfast with the mortar team and relaxing for a few minutes over a mug of hot tea discussing the number of casualties after the heavy shelling last night . |
| 11 | Moreover , even those studies where there does seem to be a clear relationship over a number of data points at different arousal levels ( e.g. Courts , 1942 ; Stennett , 1957 ; Bolanger & Feldman , described in Malmo 1959 ) can often be criticized for the possibility that the task used to induce arousal actually requires greater levels of attention at higher levels of arousal itself . |
| 12 | After combining with Gary Millard at a short corner , May lifted a high cross over a crowded goalmouth and Steve Harris stormed in on the far post to hit a great first-time shot into the opposite corner . |
| 13 | The physical basis of the measurement leads to a linear response over a wide dynamic range , and reduces saturation and hysteresis effects . |
| 14 | " On the surface I might have seemed calm , " he said after recording opening rounds of 66 and 68 to open a four-shot lead over a group comprising Russell Claydon , Roger Chapman , Peter Senior and Scott Hoch . |
| 15 | Court was wearing a light robe over a pair of pale blue pyjamas . |
| 16 | In this case , the researcher asks the subjects of the research to keep a detailed diary over a given period . |
| 17 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 18 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 19 | She decided a straightforward chat over a cup of tea was the neat move . |
| 20 | WASIM AKRAM claimed a hat-trick and opener Saeed Anwar hit 135 as Pakistan scored a 94-run win over a Northern Territory Invitation XI in Alice Springs yesterday . |
| 21 | Thin or topped chip A lot of golfers will thin or top when they have to play a delicate shot over a hazard . |
| 22 | They did not like Vine , recognizing that the Major despised them as a lumpen , dull ugly mass , but the men themselves knew better ; they were Wellington 's infantry , the finest of the best , and they were marching east and south to where a pall of gun-smoke was forming like a dark cloud over a far crossroads and to where the guns cleared their throats to beckon men to battle . |
| 23 | In a medium saucepan over a low heat , heat cream to just lukewarm . |
| 24 | Walking north from Gargrave the Pennine Wayfarer follows a meandering path over a series of drumlins to Airton , where an old cotton mill was once used for the manufacture of Dettol . |
| 25 | BRIDGEND helped to raise more than £2,000 for charity on their recent trip to Ireland — and thoroughly enjoyed themselves as they scored 13 tries in a 64–15 win over a Wexford President 's XV . |
| 26 | Playing for the New Zealand Barbarians in a 23–13 win over a strong Public School Wanderers side , Botha ended a superb personal display in soaking conditions with his shorts as pristine white as when he had started the game , during which he had given a cultured demonstration of the arts of reading the game and tactical kicking . |
| 27 | The cancellation of two amalgamations by the Defence Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , amounts to a sticking plaster over a more serious problem . |
| 28 | ‘ £1 billion on industry as a recovery package , any economist will tell you , that will make no impact whatsoever , it 's a sticking plaster over a lack of policy . ’ |
| 29 | Usually , interest is paid at a constant rate , or at a fixed margin over a benchmark rate such as LIBOR . |
| 30 | In the case of perpetual debt where interest is paid at a constant rate , or at a fixed margin over a benchmark the correct finance charge will be equal to the coupon payable for each period . |