Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was a reproduction of ‘ The light of the World ’ in a bamboo frame over the mantelpiece . |
| 32 | I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) . |
| 33 | Even less visible except to immediate participants and police is the routine ‘ slow rioting ’ of Saturday night street brawling , which ( according to the perceptions of all the chiefs constables I have interviewed in a research project over the last year ) is assuming more menacing and violent proportions throughout the country . |
| 34 | ‘ At least it 's made in the genuine outdoor manner with the billy of water suspended from an iron bar over the flames . |
| 35 | Ah in fact there 's a case in London where they 've just recently charged a mother , where the firemen were called to a house fire over the weekend and erm during the , putting the fire out they discovered a child 's body er i on the settee . |
| 36 | The overall winning team was the Manchester firm Ove Arup and Partners who narrowly edged out the Sir Robert McAlpine squad on a card play-off over the last six holes . |
| 37 | CAR dealers were on a collision course over the Chancellor 's drive to keep the motoring industry on the road to recovery . |
| 38 | THE National Rivers Authority and Warrington Borough Council are on a collision course over the authority 's £156,780 rate bill . |
| 39 | THE National Rivers Authority and Warrington Borough Council are on a collision course over the authority 's £156,780 rate bill . |
| 40 | Two London men have been granted conditional bail after appearing before Chelmsford magistrates facing charges in connection with an assault at a burger bar over the weekend . |
| 41 | The explosions in March and April of 1969 at an electricity sub station in Castlereagh and at the Silent Valley reservoir in the Mournes were followed by an explosion at an electricity sub-station over the border in County Donegal . |
| 42 | nodded but looked at an apple tree over the hedge . |
| 43 | However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant . |
| 44 | At 0856:58 the crew reported level at 2,500ft , followed 44 sec later by a position report over the MN beacon . |