Example sentences of "the [noun sg] over [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the struggle over levels of relief intensified , so the Alliance lost further ground . |
| 2 | Rubin , the designers of all Soviet nuclear submarines , says leakage of plutonium from corroded nuclear torpedoes is not expected to start until 1995 or 1996 , but when it starts strong currents could disperse the contamination over distances of up to 100 kilometres . |
| 3 | the view of the traffic planners here is that if the bike is to be seen as a realistic substitute to the car over distances of up to two km , then every point must be made accessible to it . |
| 4 | The Rev Geoffrey Peters , of Manningham , Bradford — a keen cricket fan — said a silent prayer for an end to the rumpus over allegations by England batsman Allan Lamb that Pakistani fast bowlers cheated . |
| 5 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 6 | Editor , — It is unfortunate that Gary P Bray adds to the confusion over deaths from paracetamol overdose by an apparent failure to recognise the difference between the cause of death and a coroner 's verdict as to its motivation . |
| 7 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 8 | Certain Cabinet ministers told the press on Tuesday they feared a head-on constitutional clash between the Prime Minister and the Queen over sanctions on South Africa . |
| 9 | The project will analyse the distribution over households of various indicators of living standards . |
| 10 | The top shelf needs to be high enough for the monitor to be seen from the back of the room over rows of heads . |
| 11 | It followed several months of public debate led by the DPP over calls for Taiwan independence , theoretically punishable under sedition laws as advocating secession [ see also p. 38291 ] . |
| 12 | He rolled the disc over segments of the city , the cross-hairs neatly quartering his domain . |
| 13 | Also from Murray comes the controversial James Beck 's Art Restoration , The Culture , the Business and the Scandal ( April , £16.99 ) in which he reworks the debate the debate over restorations at London 's National Gallery , the Metropolitan , the Louvre , Prado and the Uffizi , as well as the Sistine Chapel . |
| 14 | The new information adds fuel to the debate over applications by the power generators to keep secret details of their fuels used , and the emissions resulting , on the grounds of commercial confidentiality . |
| 15 | But the finality of the announcement is another cruel blow to the young princes who have already been through the wringer over revelations in the Andrew Morton book Diana : Her True Story . |
| 16 | They have some power over the length of the school day , they are an avenue for parental complaint and they have wider powers than in the past over matters of school discipline and in the appointment and dismissal of teachers . |
| 17 | Forbes , too , ended up in prison for swindling the government over supplies to hospitals . |
| 18 | Controversy over the Scottish National Party 's decision to do a deal with the Government over seats on the EC committee of the regions resurfaced . |
| 19 | Dutch customs officials have agreed a temporary compromise in the row over imports of maize gluten containing high proportions of maize germ , which should restore trade to Rotterdam . |
| 20 | The Pembertons clearly have the edge over others in the group , bearing much more bloom on long arching canes , and heavily scented . |
| 21 | They wanted to restore , to some small extent , the House 's powers to scrutinize and , on occasion , to resist the executive over items of legislation , finance and general policy but their attitude was greeted with genuine surprise by many older members and by others in their own ‘ intake ’ . |
| 22 | With some innovative thinking on the way new energy taxes are applied , Mr Lamont might even give a helping hand to Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , who is struggling to find a way out of the controversy over plans for pit closures . |
| 23 | The controversy over criteria for granting Latvian citizenship flared up again at the end of March , when President Anatolijs Gorbunovs proposed that a referendum be held on the issue [ for October and November 1991 controversy see p. 38585 ] . |
| 24 | In 1983 , Jim Hartle and I proposed that the sum over histories for the universe should not be taken over histories in real time . |
| 25 | To do this , we must perform the sum over histories for all possible Euclidean space-times that have no boundary . |
| 26 | If one extrapolates the results of the sum over histories from imaginary time to real time , one finds that the beginning of the universe in real time can be very different from its end . |
| 27 | How much control had the monarch over appointments to offices which legally were in his gift ? |
| 28 | A special declaration reflecting the meeting 's key concern , adopted on July 22 , urged all countries involved to settle the dispute over claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea " in a peaceful manner " . |
| 29 | The US negotiators had been due to meet their EC counterparts in Brussels to discuss the dispute over bids for EC utility contracts . |
| 30 | He said the board 's decision had ‘ nothing to do with the Romb incident ’ or the dispute over allegations of cheap foreign imports undermining local quayside prices . |