Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | Good For A Loan is potentially well treated on some of his form last term - which included a neck verdict over Sukaab at the Somerset circuit 13 months ago - and can produce a potent turn of foot under favourable conditions . |
| 32 | Heat the butter in a frying pan over low heat . |
| 33 | I remember too the suppressed terror I felt one Saturday morning when there was a daylight raid over London and a swarm of black flies appeared in the blue sky and seemed to come on and on as we looked out of our house high on Hampstead Heath . |
| 34 | Later in the year , two U S A Thunderbolt Fighters landed after a daylight sortie over France , they were painted in the usual drab green camouflage colour and both had a pink and red glamour girl on the side about twenty feet long , typical of the Yanks . |
| 35 | FRANK BRUNO wants a Riddick victory over Evander Holyfield for a short-cut to his third world title shot . |
| 36 | A plaintiff once brought a defamation action over the allegation that he was a highwaym . |
| 37 | If we 'd had a boom economy over the last five years , the Stock Exchange would never have thought of phasing out the USM . ’ |
| 38 | Remembering always to carry her gas mask , stumbling home through the blackout with only a narrow beam of light from her torch to help her , and going to services in churches lit only by candles with a blackout curtain over the door . |
| 39 | He bought some rocks and stones , and spent the long summer evenings building a rock garden over the grave . |
| 40 | I prefer to kill rabbits the easy way whenever possible , so I position a purse net over the top of every bolt-hole and every entrance , subsequently making sure that every purse net that bags a rabbit is quickly removed and replaced with a fresh net . |
| 41 | I usually make a tape hood over the static vents to allow them to breathe without letting water droplets get into the tubes . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | After a short ceremony at their Sheffield Park Station at 2.00pm in the presence of Mr Andrew Dow , head of the NRM at York , she will haul a VIP train over the full length of the recently extended Bluebell . |
| 44 | Pitched on the machair in Sutherland , however , it proved to be as useful as holding a tea towel over your head . |
| 45 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 46 | On the table was a vase of flowers , a square honeycomb oozing liquid honey from its wax holes onto the dish , three jars of jam , each one a different colour of dark red , and a jug with a muslin cloth over the top . |
| 47 | At last , satisfied , he went to the sink and washed his hands , then came back and threw a muslin cloth over the board and its bloodied contents . |
| 48 | For a long time the professionals had a preference for a pruning knife over secateurs . |
| 49 | Separating passengers would add time to the tunnel journey and some observers believe it could destroy any time advantage over ferries , putting a question mark over Eurotunnel 's entire operation . |
| 50 | Any retrospective rule change would place a question mark over the reselections of Mr George Galloway in Glasgow Hillhead and Mr Ron Brown in Edinburgh Leith , who were both nominated on a majority of trade union votes . |
| 51 | However , the prospect of Labour 's fourth defeat in a row since 1979 will place a question mark over his leadership and Labour 's longer-term future . |
| 52 | The absence of facilities within GIS software for handling the effects of input data uncertainty and possible error propagation by GIS operations creates a question mark over the safe utilization of many aspects of the technology . |
| 53 | The Danish and French referendums on the Maastricht treaty have put a question mark over the future of the European Community . |
| 54 | It could even put a question mark over the future of England captain and selector Graham Gooch , whose fitness and discipline regime have become a hallmark of the current side , and which Gower has had some difficulty fitting in with . |
| 55 | They offended some of the more straight-laced among the constructors — people who might have been more inclined to help the Fittipaldis if they kept better company — and generally put a question mark over the Fittipaldi team : how it was surviving , with whose backing , by what means . |
| 56 | It was his eighth goal in 10 games of a season in which he has been badly affected by injury and left out of Taylor 's plans because of a question mark over his match-fitness . |
| 57 | Arctic Call is often let down by his jumping and with a question mark over his race fitness I prefer BELMOUNT CAPTAIN . |
| 58 | The arrival of Keown at Arsenal would put a question mark over the future of Steve Bould , although Graham has in the past employed a three-man system at the heart of the Highbury defence to great effect . |
| 59 | Director General Sir Michael Checkland put a question mark over favourites like Big Break , Telly Addicts and Going For Gold yesterday . |
| 60 | Leaped ‘ There must now be a question mark over their future . ’ |