Example sentences of "over [art] [noun pl] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'll blur over the consequences for Ulster and hurry on to my next point — the re-establishment of an Irish House of Lords , the first since 1801 . |
| 2 | As a student , with everybody into punk in a big way , I 'd regularly paid over the odds for Chuck Mangione imports . |
| 3 | These headaches seldom arise today , possibly because sponsors have had to accept paying over the odds for players in the headlines . |
| 4 | In the past Coleby had paid over the odds for things he wanted . |
| 5 | The government and the ANC are bickering over the preconditions for negotiation — matters such as the bringing home of exiles and the release of political prisoners . |
| 6 | The British Foreign Office said in London yesterday that the government remained keen to hold talks with China without preconditions over the plans for democracy . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course there 's been a lot of public controversy over the proposals for hospital trusts and fund-holding general practices , that 's part of the job . |
| 8 | Bloomsbury publishes this Monday , 25th January , Betrayed : The Real Story of the Matrix Churchill Trial , which it says ‘ discloses fresh evidence implicating three government ministers in a cover-up over the arms for Iraq scandal ’ . |
| 9 | Labour 's Robin Cook and the Liberal Democrat Leader , Paddy Ashdown , have challenged the Prime Minister to tell the full story over the arms for Iraq affair . |
| 10 | In July , Lord Mackay published a white paper which abandoned the proposal of a single accreditation for advocates , gave the judges a veto over the rules for accreditation of solicitors , and did not continue to propose multi-disciplinary partnerships . |
| 11 | Leonard argued the case through the columns of Over the Hills for Spring 1930 , in reforming ignorance of the emerging Nazi appropriation of the Germanic pastoral dream : |
| 12 | The inter-library comparison of 14 university libraries carried out by the Centre for Interfirm Comparison in 1979/80 showed how staff costs are predominating over the budgets for materials . |
| 13 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 14 | Within Japan economic and social changes during the Tokugawa period imposed severe strains on the political system , but despite growing concerns over the implications for Japan of foreign advances in Asia , seclusion remained for many an article of faith . |
| 15 | Analysts were divided over the prospects for share prices as the widely based FT-SE 100 index lost a further 30.5 points to close at 2,247.0 . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I gather there has been a lot of soul-searching up north over the defeats for Linfield and Bangor — though Linfield now have a lifeline . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I gather there has been a lot of soul-searching up north over the defeats for Linfield and Bangor — though Linfield now have a lifeline . |
| 18 | I can also tell him that urban aid of £9.7 million has been made available over the years for homelessness projects in Scotland . |
| 19 | He began by saying that seven years earlier Meehan had been found guilty by a jury ‘ on evidence which was amply justified ’ , and then went on : ‘ Some public support was whipped up over the years for reasons which were not entirely clear and for motives which might be imagined . ’ |
| 20 | I have developed considerable regard and affection over the years for Jack Profumo , who has worked his passage after having been what is technically described as ‘ disgraced ’ in circumstances where a great number of people would not have been over-censorious . |