Example sentences of "over [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The plenum had been delayed for several months , allegedly because of divisions over economic policy between the central and provincial authorities .
2 Because it forms slowly over geological time in the Cretaceous chalk , minute amounts of clay dispersed in the chalk are incorporated within the flint .
3 The debate over regional decentralization in the 1960s and '70s thus raised many crucial issues about the nature of explanation in the social sciences .
4 That echoes the fierce debate in England over so-called trendy teaching methods , and over political interference in the curriculum by the Government .
5 However , while preparing for its first congress , a split occurred because of disagreements over private ownership of the means of production and land .
6 The followers are there for a day out in the countryside , the opportunity to ride or to walk freely over private property with the consent of the landowner .
7 Chocolate should never be melted over direct heat in a saucepan by itself .
8 Many animals need to make long journeys over unfamiliar country during the normal course of their lives .
9 Their concern was over dietary intake of the plasticiser di-2-XXXX ethylhexyl ( DEHA ) used in PVC cling film and known to cause cancer in laboratory mice .
10 Dredge beef in flour and brown in batches in oil over high heat in a flameproof casserole .
11 As a consequence , Britain squandered crucial opportunities over the Schuman plan in 1950 , over the common market in 1955 and 1957 , and over British entry into the European monetary system in the late 1970s and 1980s .
12 The musicians involved in punk were also intensely wary of what they saw as the control exercised over popular music by the major record companies .
13 Yesterday it all came good for them with a thrilling five shot ( 78-73 ) victory over Old Bleach in the final at Jordanstown , a result that finally takes away the sour taste following their defeat by Bangor in last year 's final .
14 However , Senator Nelson Elder of the Unionist Party walked out after an argument over capital punishment for the murder of policemen .
15 In the case of Britain , Wedderburn ( 1974 , p. 31 ) notes that the failure of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act , many of whose legalistic provisions had US antecedents , ‘ might serve as a warning against over simple enthusiasm for the translation of developments from other countries into the British framework ’ .
16 my Lord another factual situation which I 'll simply referred to is the er on going debate in European commission or cases relating to up stream fuel , er , where there 's very little trade , erm for technical reasons because of the isolation of the United Kingdom , however the commission has searched jurisdiction over restricted competition in the market because the fuels have a direct impact upon product , erm from production costs , product down stream of which there is trade
17 Melt butter over medium heat in a large pan .
18 However , there was disagreement over future policy towards the state enterprises , over a third of which were loss-making .
19 JOHN Major attempted to distance himself yesterday from a renewed row over Tory intervention in the US election which threatens to overshadow his first meeting with President Clinton .
20 The advantage of the SAM over optical equipment for the same purpose , he says , depends on the fact that coal is black , and absorbs most of the light you point at it .
21 Debré had assumed wide powers over domestic policy-making during the Algerian War .
22 This is a vertical drop of 5 ft– 6 ft , half rolling and turning 90 degrees right over diagonal slab into a fall overflow .
23 The formation of a Labour-led Israeli government under Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin was seen as improving the prospects for progress in the Middle East peace process , with the expectation that the new government would adopt a less intransigent stance than its predecessor over Jewish settlement in the occupied territories .
24 It has retained the strong legs and good feet of a draught animal , so that it can travel long distances over rough terrain on the range , and it has proved able to withstand the stress of drought better than other Bos taurus breeds .
25 Fishing was excellent over rough ground for a wide range of species including pollack to 10 lbs , coalfish to 8 lbs , ling to 12 lbs , conger to 19 lbs , cod to 10 lbs , dabs , turbot , brill , plaice , red and grey gurnard , pouting , poor cod , dogfish , ballan and cuckoo wrasse and thornback ray .
26 A growing scandal over illegal funding of the PS and of Mitterrand 's 1988 presidential re-election campaign came to a head in April .
27 Selling into the Community from abroad is itself sufficient to establish jurisdiction over anti-competitive behaviour by a supplier.For example , in a recent series of cases concerning cartelisation of the markets for certain polyethylenes , the Commission fined companies which did not produce or have headquarters in the EEC on the basis that the EEC was an important market for them .
28 It is difficult to predict whether or not judicial review will be useful in clarifying the law over unmet need in the NHS and Community Care Act .
29 The Soviet media linked the concern of the conference delegates over international tension in the ‘ Arab Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula ’ to ostensible American plans to set up a new military alliance in the Red Sea area .
30 Luis Gordillo , a Spanish artist born in Seville in 1934 , is a bona fide member of the artistic generation that blossomed in the wake of Pop Art 's ascendancy over Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s .
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