Example sentences of "over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CANBERRA may seem an awful long way from exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons over the European Monetary System . |
| 2 | Bowlers qualified for the final over the previous weekends to fill the 32 places in the double elimination final . |
| 3 | And there , in exactly the manner I have recommended for putting in clues in the traditional whodunit , Hammett gives his readers their clue , full-out and in the open but made to look as if it was there as part of the particularly laconic , cool conversation the two men are having over the newly-slain body . |
| 4 | No more was said of the job and it rapidly became impossible to tell who was trying to please whom over the matter of the Venetian lantern . |
| 5 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 6 | Meanwhile negotiations between the US government and the Philippines over the future of Clark air base and of Subic Bay naval base remained effectively deadlocked , with the Philippines government continuing to insist that it would take over the bases when the current agreement expired in 1991 . |
| 7 | Protests were made in the Commons over the exclusion of Argyll and Bute and western parts of Moray from the regional grant earmarked by the European Commission for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 8 | In July 1985 the government was nearly defeated in the Commons over a vote to reduce the Lord Chancellor 's salary . |
| 9 | The British government has backed down under pressure from the House of Lords over a controversial proposal that would have given the Secretary of State for Education formal responsibility for the way in which universities are run ( see Nature 362 , 275 ; 1993 ) . |