Example sentences of "over a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COMMITTEE chairwoman has quit over a row about postal votes at a Darlington community centre . |
| 2 | The lips were drawn back over a row of small pointed teeth in a ghastly grimace , a shriek of pain or terror . |
| 3 | Over a soundtrack of appropriate chart hits , unidentified teenagers talked about coming to terms with their own sexuality . |
| 4 | One attractive alternative to brushing bronzing powder on your cheeks is cream blusher : blend it in well with your fingertips over a base of tinted moisturiser , then dust any areas prone to shine with powder . |
| 5 | Most use a vibrating diaphragm over a chamber with one-way valves , to take air in from the room and pump it out to the tank . |
| 6 | The Gambia announced on Oct. 23 that 980 illegal immigrants , the majority from Guinea and Sierra Leone , had been deported ; the expulsions were apparently prompted by concern over a rise in violent crime . |
| 7 | Whilst only just over a fifth of all workers work on a part-time basis , well over a half of temporary workers do so . |
| 8 | A particular scene appeared before her eyes : her father is sitting hunched over a pile of torn photographs , and Agnes 's sister is shouting at him : ‘ Why have you torn up Mother 's pictures ? |
| 9 | Send someone out to buy 20 pairs , ’ she said , striding nervously over a pile of scattered silk shoes in the ballroom of the Berkeley Hotel , Knightsbridge . |
| 10 | In the United States , a complex wrangle is taking place over a range of possible standards . |
| 11 | It was envisaged , however , that they would " voluntarily delegate " to the central authorities control over financial , credit and exchange policy , over common customs policy " to ensure protection of the union-wide market " , and over a range of other activities including management of defence industries , transport , energy and telecommunications . |
| 12 | We then passed beneath a ranch fence : Parque Nacional Torres del Paine , it announced , and in the distance over a range of low brown grasslands were the sharp spires of a dozen oddly-shaped mountains , twisted and contorted and coloured like no other mountains we had ever seen before . |
| 13 | is the strong poverty trap , where over a range of earned income disposable income actually falls as earned income rises . |
| 14 | Ideally , much more broad-ranging methods would be implemented to test a child 's abilities over a range of social skills . |
| 15 | The objective is to enable them to move EDI messages around the organisation and also , via the VAX , to exchange EDI communications with their trading partners over a range of different networks . |
| 16 | There is , for example , the amazing social development of all the forms of dance , over a range from complex traditional forms to prolonged professional training . |
| 17 | Like generals marshalling their forces for a ‘ big push ’ campaign , Eddie Thorning and Chris Pomfret pore over a map of Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | Britain 's National Championship is held annually , usually over a weekend in late summer and if the idea of attending this quaint and somewhat unusual event appeals , then you have a real treat in store . |
| 19 | Like the mash tun , it has a slotted base and the liquid runs out of the vessel over a bed of spent hops . |
| 20 | He was dressed in a rich robe of gold , fringed with black velvet , over a doublet of blood-red silk and black and white hose . |
| 21 | When he came into the labs , Corbett was already poised over a crucible of smoking liquid , looking less like a mad professor than an incompetent short-order cook . |
| 22 | The cornerstone of over a century of Russian diplomacy was laid with the signing of a formal alliance with Austria in 1726 . |
| 23 | Like her earlier Stand We At Last , which told the story of over a century of Western feminism , Daddy 's Girls shows Zoë Fairbairns to be adept at recreating detail and charting the changes in character 's lives as years pass . |
| 24 | The internal economic geography of the UK has been reworked over a century by fundamental change in the nature and orientation of exports , which has reflected the success of individual industries and their factories . |
| 25 | Behind a low wall , a ragged hedge squatted like a moulting hen over a clutch of empty drink cans and discarded crisp bags ; a couple of unkempt evergreen trees , grown to roof height , screened the house from the road and severely restricted the amount of light reaching the dingy windows . |
| 26 | Outside Bosnia , in the Ottoman-occupied territories of Serbia , Macedonia and Albania , the Muslims were a thin stratum of Turkish immigrants , landowners and administrators , ruling over a mass of Christian peasants . |
| 27 | Over a lunch of cold meat salad , bread from the RAOC mobile field bakery and fresh fruit , in the communal dining tent the Company Commander hears how a member of the Stores Platoon spent most of the morning trying to purchase Bedford truck spares . |
| 28 | One result of this constant paradox is that while the police make statements welcoming research and applaud intellectual debate , they strive to impose rigid control over a system of preferred rules and regulations to negate open enquiry , so that systems are quietly but firmly deployed to deny the critical approach — as we shall see . |
| 29 | Swirling in an army Chinook helicopter through wind and fog and over a sea of smouldering lava yesterday , it was easy to see why earlier plans to bomb or mine it off course and up on to the surface have been shelved . |
| 30 | Some novice gardeners may not want to do much actual gardening at all , but conversely , do not want to look out every day over a scene of threadbare grass and rotting fence . |