Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | erm usually if it 's just one or two things people are offered the opportunity to submit a piece of work over the summer |
| 32 | He had a strong feeling that he wanted to dash back to the Romano-British section and break a piece of statuary over the bastard 's head . |
| 33 | Lay a piece of paper over the artwork and draw on the actual positions of the components , showing the locations of all pinouts and terminals clearly . |
| 34 | A review of debates over the past two or three years reveals another unusual aspect . |
| 35 | So why have the people of Lauchhammer been complaining of headaches for years , whenever the wind carries a column of smoke over the town ? |
| 36 | The feeling is growing that since the occupiers of rural land benefit considerably from tax-payers ' money then tax-payers should have access to , and a degree of control over the use of such land . |
| 37 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 38 | The Congress exercises a degree of control over the General People 's Committee , which is broadly equivalent to a Council of Ministers or Cabinet . |
| 39 | The Congress exercises a degree of control over the General People 's Committee , which is broadly equivalent to a Council of Ministers or Cabinet . |
| 40 | Interactivity in an information system gives the user some influence over access to the information and a degree of control over the outcomes of using the system . |
| 41 | It ushered in a period of expansion over the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s the like of which the world had rarely seen . |
| 42 | She submitted that the law built up through custom and practice appeared to have had no difficulty in affording to a child born after the death of its parent a right of action over the death . |
| 43 | A stream of legislation over the spring and summer meanwhile established some of the guiding principles of the new association : there were laws on the demarcation of the powers of the USSR and of its constituent republics , on the treatment of Soviet citizens outside their own republic , and on economic relations between the USSR , the union and autonomous republics . |
| 44 | The best we can do is to grow a covering of skin over the stump where the amputation occurred . |
| 45 | The sun was just catching the summit of the opposite hillside , making a corona of light over the towering cypresses . |
| 46 | The main reason seems to be a difference of opinion over the Italian state 's role as lender of last resort to troubled banks . |
| 47 | The passage quoted above can then be read not as a denial of conflicts over the use of common land , but as a comment on them . |
| 48 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 49 | At one level this meant that the exiguous legal structure of this relationship afforded much social power to the landowner , whose ability to terminate the tenancy at pleasure might hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of his tenant farmers . |
| 50 | And in the West , the situation will require exceptional skills on the part of our present leaders — especially in West Germany , where a string of elections over the next 12 months will make it hard for those in power to preserve the calm and objectivity with which all these questions need to be discussed . |
| 51 | Early in the year , SCS could report a record quarter for increases in sales , capital and membership , reflecting a picture of growth over the year that did not dispel fears of the adverse influence of political involvement on trade . |
| 52 | Since the pomeshchiks depended on the same source — peasant produce — for their income , there was always a conflict of interest over the portion to be paid to the State . |
| 53 | Half an hour before Alisdair got up , she moved the porridge to the back of the fire and put a pot of water over the flames , she was roughly on time at the moment so there might not be trouble after all . |
| 54 | Tens of thousands of township residents stayed away from work on Aug. 27 as a mark of protest over the township violence , coinciding with a mass funeral to bury seven of the dead . |
| 55 | But underneath all the tough-talking , cryptic statements and pipe-lighting that allows him time to carefully think out his replies , there is another Bill Morrison , a schoolboy at heart , who is happiest sitting in the stands at Lord 's or Twickenham swapping cricketing and rugby stories , who idolises sporting heroes like cricketers Denis Compton and Gary Sobers , four-minute miler Roger Bannister , and former rugby international Gerald Davies , and who is in a fever of excitement over the arrival of his new MG RV8 , a ‘ reincarnation of the old MGB ’ , only ‘ more powerful , more comfortable ( I hope ) and certainly more costly ’ . |
| 56 | Jay had picked up a pattern of sleeplessness over the last five months . |
| 57 | Reaching her car at last , she drove away into the silent night , gazing through a gauze of tears over the snow-covered mountains ahead . |
| 58 | Place a block of wood over the plastic tube and knock into the ground , occasionally placing the clothes line pole into the tube to check the tube is vertical |
| 59 | But the ever-smiling Adams , who has been dogged by a catalogue of injuries over the past two years , was in no mood to feel sorry for himself at Party Politics ' home-coming , attended by more than 500 people in Upper Lambourn yesterday . |
| 60 | The emphasis on closer trade ties with the US was also interpreted as a signal of impatience over the lack of progress on Turkey 's application for European Community membership . |