Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 30 Ingegerd Troedsson ( Moderate Party ) was elected as the Speaker of the Riksdag ( Sweden 's second highest ranking official after the monarch ) , the first woman to be elected to the post , in a narrow victory over the incumbent Thage Peterson ( Social Democrat ) . |
| 2 | Clinton took a huge opinion poll lead over the incumbent President George Bush of the Republican Party . |
| 3 | Another lengthy court battle would be a severe embarrassment for Mr Heseltine and prolong the Government 's agony over the mishandled pit closure programme . |
| 4 | But it was not only officers and members of the WEA and the District who were pleased with the final agreement over the rural areas scheme and the conclusion of negotiations of byzantine complexity extending over a period of four difficult years . |
| 5 | Until 1936 , the other rural counties in the District were regarded as ‘ open territory ’ but in that year a partial relaxation over public expenditure restrictions occurred and the issues inherent in the compromise over the rural areas agreement between the Cambridge Board and the District emerged in sharply focussed ways . |
| 6 | The landlord may wish to have some control over the external colour scheme , but the tenant should resist a provision for the landlord 's consent to the internal colour scheme , except perhaps in the last year of the term where the tenant does not propose to seek a renewal . |
| 7 | When the Orioles ' designated hitter lifts a three-run homer over the right field fence in the ninth to wrap it up at 9–3 , the resigned Sox faithful begin heading for the exits . |
| 8 | Strach is normally the epitomy of that and swarms all over the right back area in and around the box . |
| 9 | The last US foothold , Cubi Point naval air station ( an airfield attached to the Subic Bay naval base ) , was evacuated , and formal control over the vast Subic Bay site — once the largest US base outside north America — was formally transferred to the government of the Philippines . |
| 10 | ‘ American Money ’ , ‘ Kyphos ’ and ‘ Patchwork Lives ’ are tunes of distinction too , super imposing , thanks to a phrase here and a lugubrious melodic twist there , a veil of real-life grime over the swaying dance beats . |
| 11 | Although pollsters say the race is volatile , not one major national survey now gives the lead to Bush , who enjoyed a record popularity rating after the Gulf War only to watch it drift away amid worries over the weak US economy . |
| 12 | Curry Rivel sits on a low ridge nearly two hundred and seventy feet above sea level ; not high ground , to be sure , but high enough to afford panoramic views all around over the low-lying Somerset Wetlands . |
| 13 | Recent publications on the use of remote sensing imagery in mineral exploration in Britain include Moore and Camm ( 1982 ) on structural mapping for Sn-W prospecting in South-west England , Hunting Geology and Geophysics ( 1983 ) on exploration for fluorite and Pb-Zn in the Pennine orefields and Darch and Barber ( 1983 ) on vegetation studies over the Coed y Brenin porphyry copper deposit in North Wales . |
| 14 | In the darkness , he could barely make out the wooden boards that had been nailed into place over the shattered window vents at street level , but even down here they could hear the hissing of rain on the pavements outside and the grumbling of thunder in the sky . |
| 15 | It was explained that this was because the company was perpetually producing new products with life-cycles of two to four years and that the product mixes over the narrow product range in current production were largely set by the available type of capacity over such periods . |
| 16 | In total , over the six month period , 59 per cent of the referrals commenced during week days and 41 per cent after 5 p.m. or at weekends , two commencing after 11 p.m . |
| 17 | However , it was still felt that a comparison between action and control samples might be interesting , merely to see whether there was any clear difference between the two samples over the six month period . |
| 18 | This can also be expressed in terms of arrest rates — the numbers arrested over the six month period per 100 in the resident population . |
| 19 | We recorded the address of each person arrested over the six month period — a total of over 5,000 people — and , using maps , we ascertained the enumeration district or ward in which the arrestee lived . |
| 20 | It was built in order to improve the ancient road over the steep-sided Horn Hill into Somerset , and largely paid for by Giles Russell , a major local landowner , as a piece of genuine public beneficence . |
| 21 | The work marks the end of a long battle at Darlington council over the best pedestrianisation plan for Darlington . |
| 22 | A FRESH row brewed last night over the contentious Channel Tunnel rail link through the south-east of England after the Labour Party claimed it had obtained full details of the route . |
| 23 | Besides the obvious need to apply combat paint over the civil tanker schemes , the aircraft had to have their retardant tank systems removed . |
| 24 | At this point the debate over the civil rights bill merged into a wider national debate concerning the legitimacy of reverse discrimination . |
| 25 | Such were the tolerant conditions still prevailing that the Left Communists were able to publish their own journal — Kommunist — and Lenin had to argue policy questions with them publicly ; just as had been the case over the Brest Litovsk peace treaty . |
| 26 | Representatives of UN relief agencies in Addis Ababa on June 3 expressed extreme concern over the immediate food needs of 500,000 Ethiopians . |
| 27 | As more swifts swung over the warm evening sky outside she got increasingly agitated and so great was the sound her clashing talons and lunging beak and wild wings made that all the other birds of prey in the Cages grew restless as well . |
| 28 | Sedentary occupations over the modern working day are a different matter from the twelve or more hours in ill-ventilated workshops which made tailors and shoe makers proverbially consumptive . |
| 29 | The coroner was told that blood alcohol tests after the accident showed Richard had been one and a half times over the legal drink drive limit . |
| 30 | Government statistics indicate that during 1988 , there were around 850 fatalities and 20,000 casualties in accidents where a driver was over the legal blood alcohol limit ( 80mg/100ml ) . |