Example sentences of "over [art] question [prep] " in BNC.

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1 During the late 1940s and early 1950s the Communist movement was further weakened by splits in the parties of Mexico , Venezuela , Colombia , Argentina , Bolivia , Peru and Brazil — mostly over the questions of local tactics discussed above or because of rivalry for the party leadership .
2 The second unexpected area of conflict came over the question of who was to be entitled to final cut on the film .
3 It therefore seems that ‘ in a purely negative way ’ the silence over the question of meaning in the Boston text and in the Scrapbook is perhaps not surprising — — it is an historically appropriate response to the disappearance of the SI .
4 The Prince would no doubt also like to have more children , but he is very torn over the question of population control .
5 Mr Tebbit 's attempt to build a backbench revolt over the question of passports for the Hong Kong Chinese has inevitably drawn comparisons with the role of Mr Enoch Powell in the 1960s .
6 The doubts most clearly arose over the question of Idi Amin 's expulsion of the Ugandan Asians in the summer of 1972 .
7 If there is an address , it is often given by a layman , who commends what we did in life and skims discreetly over the question of survival , if any .
8 Likewise it was not unusual for Congregationalists to worry about Unitarian trends in their ministers or for Baptists to bring the trust deed into debate , and sometimes into court , over the question of
9 Nowhere is this paranoia more evident than over the question of defectors .
10 There was a debate among anthropologists over the question of origins .
11 It is recorded that the Trustees were in trouble in 1920 with the local authorities over the question of sanitation in the houses .
12 It was to be hoped that Davout would be reasonable over the question of expenses .
13 It is only over the question of Faculty examinations and the associated ‘ grandfathering ’ provisions that there is a material divergence of views between the two bodies .
14 Eleanor Fuller was as good as her word over the question of dinner .
15 Opinion had been divided over the question of whether the injuries had caused Mary Flint 's death .
16 President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution .
17 ‘ HAVE been sweating blood over the question of what is right and feasible to do .
18 It was 1747 before trouble was again encountered over the question of the collectorship , and at that time the office had been held without dispute for several years by Michael Elphinstone of Quarrel , whose election had been secured by an alliance of the Duke of Montrose and Lord Elphinstone .
19 Bull said it still continues to be part of ACE Consortium , but only as far as desktop Intel-based systems are concerned : it refused to be drawn over the question of whether its relationship with IBM would result in it favouring OS/2 over Windows 3 , saying only that ‘ Windows is what our customers are buying today ’ .
20 There was some fretting over the question of whether trading one parent for another rather than going public would put Unix right back where it was when the Open Software Foundation was formed .
21 Nevertheless , on the subject of the clash between the normativist and functionalist styles of public law — which emerged in the Franks Committee 's investigations over the question of whether any body responsible for supervising administrative tribunals should be detached from or integrated into the Supreme Courts — the Committee came down firmly in favour of integration .
22 A good illustration of this is the lack of certainty that many young people have over the question of how to address their parents and parents-in-law after marriage .
23 The Secretary of State found it difficult enough to maintain the unity of his allies in Europe over the question of re-arming Germany .
24 The commons needed little encouragement to join his opposition to the king 's demands , since further taxation was particularly unwelcome in the wake of recent extortionate taxes and purveyances ; as for the lords , they were concerned over the question of peerage rights which the archbishop had so astutely raised .
25 Over the question of the expulsion of a racist South Africa from the Commonwealth he was cautious .
26 He soon came into conflict with Thomas Henry Huxley ( 182595 ) — known as ‘ Darwin 's bulldog ’ — over the question of humankind 's relationship to the great apes .
27 The greatest controversy has been over the question of assessment and testing .
28 There was astonishment also at what Sylvie Guillem could do with her legs , and excited suspense was also manifested over the question of whether Inès de la Fressange was coming or whether she had been deemed to be too much associated with Chanel and had therefore , in spite of being a close personal friend of Christian 's , been unceremoniously dumped .
29 The PIMS data still give some cause for puzzlement over the question of investment intensity , however , because Buzzell and Gale show that five-year averages of ROI are highly positively related to increases in the long-term value of the business , both being closely and positively associated with initial competitive position .
30 There is a constant battle over the question of access to information that is generated primarily by the executive , but the Congress can point to some significant successes in recent years .
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