Example sentences of "over a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It might be a recovery shot from deep rough with a minute margin for error ; or a pitch shot from a bare lie over a bunker to a flag in a very tight position ; or simply a six-foot putt to save par . |
| 32 | Members of the housing committee of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities were told of a complaint by Tweeddale District Council over a request by a tenant , who was exercising his right-to-buy for the first time , that his fiancee be included as a joint purchaser . |
| 33 | Hunter , 25 , who had to have a spleen removed after a tackle by a Japanese player during the Student World Cup in Italy last summer , is back in full training and is over a bout of tonsillitis . |
| 34 | The one with Pavarotti and Sid Vicious fighting over a vial of dope |
| 35 | When Thersites sees soldiers — we would have to change the modern parallel to those semi-pornographic animated cartoons like Ralph Bakshi 's Heavy Traffic and Fritz the Cat , or sado-masochistic literature — he sees a degraded struggle over a whore by men running with disease . |
| 36 | Mr Leckey said the shoot-out in which the IRA men died was a result of actions by the security forces over a threat to the life of a former UDR soldier in August 1988 . |
| 37 | The Housing Trust hands over a cheque to Community Council chairman and Middlesbrough Mayor Eddie Bolland today . |
| 38 | Her parents , Lord and Lady Romsey , will hand over a cheque from the Leonora Knatchbull Research Fellowship , for child cancer research at London 's St Bartholomew 's Hospital . |
| 39 | Middlesbrough Mayor Coun Eddie Bolland will hand over a cheque from Middlesbrough Council 's community chest to help the photography project . |
| 40 | In that capacity he had presided over a campaign against corruption , and more positively over a relaxation of the restrictions upon private trade and local government . |
| 41 | As always , it was difficult to judge the uphill putt over a kind of step . |
| 42 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 43 | Meirion Rowlands , one of the Ashleys ' most key appointments of this time , was well known as the local prizewinning sheep shearer ; he met Bernard over a pint in the pub . |
| 44 | Alkaline basalts record the passage of the plateau over a hotspot during the Eocene . |
| 45 | Following an enforced climb-down by Palmerston over a scheme by Hall for military bands in the Royal Parks on Sundays , the cordiality between the two men seems to have evaporated , and on 13th October , 1856 , Palmerston sent Hall a blunt admonition over the Government Offices . |
| 46 | At that time there was a widespread practice of holding the child over a newspaper for passing a motion . |
| 47 | The Empress Maria Theresa presided over a transformation of the Habsburg hereditary territories which was the greatest achievement of its kind anywhere in Europe during this period . |
| 48 | Certain of his actions — including misleading the board over a transaction with Peter de Savary concerning a property development at Canvey and then concluding it without board approval — amounted to breaches of his fiduciary duty to Blue Arrow , the report says . |
| 49 | Army cadet John Szkudlapski , 11 , was out collecting Poppy money when a banger inside a tin can was hurled over a wall at him , leaving shrapnel in his leg . |
| 50 | One grenade was not found and was lobbed over a wall from one yard to another , injuring 40 prisoners . |
| 51 | He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor , Sukarno . |
| 52 | All these stars are concentrated in a field only a little over a degree in diameter . |
| 53 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |
| 54 | The Gambia announced on Oct. 23 that 980 illegal immigrants , the majority from Guinea and Sierra Leone , had been deported ; the expulsions were apparently prompted by concern over a rise in violent crime . |
| 55 | Manufacturing productivity rose by over a half between 1981 and 1991 . |
| 56 | Just over a half of the part-time farmers said that they used or would use off-farm income for the farm . |
| 57 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 58 | Whilst only just over a fifth of all workers work on a part-time basis , well over a half of temporary workers do so . |
| 59 | Most of these businesses were on such a small scale that over a half of them built no more than six houses during these three years and nearly three-quarters built no more than twelve ; the bankruptcy rate was high . |
| 60 | Underwriting losses in Q2 down just over a half from $85.6m to $39.6m produced deficit $73.6m lower at $104.8m . |