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

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1 A sandy or silty bottom indicates slow currents whereas stones and gravel suggest that the current over the bed is quite strong .
2 There are , however , at least three good reasons to believe that the gloom over jobs is overdone .
3 That the wall over this altar is no longer bare demonstrates the new , forward-looking nature of the hitherto so tragic , so complicated relations between the Germans and Czechs , and of their reciprocal readiness now to be reconciled ‘ .
4 I am told by a friend who was a delegate to the Delhi conference that the concern over Britain 's importing nuclear weapons into an area hitherto free of them was real and not fictitious .
5 Part of the problem is that the church over the centuries has given mixed signals about the family .
6 It is therefore perhaps unsurprising that the problem over the loss of providing powers in Bedfordshire did not appear to be a major one in the context of such close co-operation and joint endeavour to promote the growth of rural adult education at that time .
7 Nevertheless , the deal is the most dramatic sign yet that the battle over the data highway that some predicted between cable-TV companies and telephone firms may not materialise .
8 He contends that the finding over the £6.6 million was unjustified as it was made in the absence of detailed analysis or evidence on the way a council should spread an investment of this kind among institutions .
9 It is possible , he tells me , that the pass over the mountain to the falls will be open now , but he is not sure .
10 Always used to a high energy level , she had found that the need over the last few months to pace herself , rest , keep calm , was driving her slowly insane .
11 No matter how disturbingly accurate my visual memory may be , all-seeing is nowise all-hearing but suffice to say they were further indicators that the bridge over which I had crossed the abyss had been mined behind me .
12 If this analysis is accepted , then it is clear that the attempt over a long period of time to protect the position of those living in privately rented accommodation has failed and has , in fact , made the position worse .
13 But such is the treacherous role of the trade union leadership that the victory over Grunwick management which had once seemed so near is now likely never to be realised .
14 In these circumstances the average torque produced by the motor while it is moving from position 8e to 8 , with phases BC excited is : The problem can now be simplified by assuming that the torque over the excitation interval is effectively constant and equal to this average value .
15 In 1983 , Jim Hartle and I proposed that the sum over histories for the universe should not be taken over histories in real time .
16 The party was about to depart when the mother of the dead girl noticed that the earth over the entrance to the tomb had been disturbed , and when she looked more closely she saw that one of the roofing stones had been moved .
17 It was in this context that the scare over incest in the late nineteenth century developed .
18 It may take drastic discontinuities , of the kind described above , to highlight the fact that the environment over a period must be taken into account before one can attempt to predict the course of personality development , yet children reared under normal home circumstances are generally regarded as remaining under such constant environmental conditions that this consideration does not hold .
19 ‘ The survey demonstrates that the debate over membership of the ERM has become clouded by issues of personalities and politics .
20 Dodgson thinks that the debate over community care has brought out a demand among general practitioners for attached social workers , particularly among fundholders .
21 It also recommends that the debate over the choice of 28 sites as possible repositories for nuclear waste should be re-opened .
22 As the choristers sang a low chant in the background , the priest moved from one vessel to the next , praying for the fishermen to be kept safe from harm , and asking that the catch over the next year may be bountiful .
23 Keynesians are critical of this policy , arguing that the uncertainty over interest rates , combined with a generally too restrictive monetary policy and a correspondingly too high average interest rate , is very damaging to business investment and hence long-term growth .
24 In an interview with Japanese reporters on Feb. 17 , the Chairman of the Council of Ministers , Dumaagiyn Sodnom , indicated that the MDU demands were being taken very seriously by the leadership ; according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo , Sodnom said : " I can not say that the monopoly over the political system is right .
25 No wonder Selby-Brigge , successor to Morant at the Board of Education , remarked in 1917 that the controversy over the curriculum was an ‘ endless one ’ .
26 An appreciation that a truce over Christmas might seem magnanimous to his Christian allies , which Zacco appeared to find appealing .
27 In a letter to Suger , Robert of Montfalcon declared that a case over whether or not a certain man was his serf should be tried either in the royal court or before the archbishop of Bourges , provided that the proceedings were in accordance with the customs of Bourges ; for him , the consuetudines of his native town had assumed the status of a law binding on outside authorities .
28 While this increase is startling , it is worth noting that a concern over ‘ crime waves ’ , and rising levels of juvenile crime in particular , is not a new phenomenon .
29 My paper tells me that a dispute over pay between the leading British manufacturer of seaside rock and his chief sugar boiler has left the latter jobless and the former with umpteen sticks of rocks bearing the legend Mean Bastard all the way through .
30 Now Mr Ferguson hopes that a victory over Brian Clough 's Nottingham Forest will reassure his side and act as a timely impetus in the championship campaign .
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